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SOPA as Prohibition (Darknets Are Bad For Society)
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2011
I am probably not the first to come up with this analogy (and I am on a flight without wifi, so I can’t look it up either) but it just struck me that there are big parallels between SOPA and [...] Read more
Negotiating a Term Sheet
Albert Wenger – Dec 1, 2011
There have been many great posts about the various terms that go into a termsheet for a venture investment. As a result entrepreneurs are much better informed which is a good thing all around. I am still puzzled at times [...] Read more
Privacy and Facebook
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2011
So Facebook settled with the FTC over privacy and Mark Zuckerberg wrote another apologetic blog post (as pointed out by Liz Gannes this is his tenth). Part of the need for these apologies comes from Facebook’s aggressive approach to releasing [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Operating Systems (Making It All Work)
Albert Wenger – Nov 29, 2011
I ended last week’s Tech Tuesday on Input/Output saying I might write next about programming in assembly language, but it has since occurred to me that I should cover at least one other high level topic first: operating systems. That [...] Read more
Hugo (Movie Review)
Albert Wenger – Nov 28, 2011
On Saturday, I went to see Hugo by Martin Scorsese with our two boys and my Mom who is visiting from Germany. It was my Mom’s first 3D movie and she was thoroughly enchanted by the effects, reaching for floating [...] Read more
Giving Thanks (To Teachers)
Albert Wenger – Nov 23, 2011
Since I am taking tomorrow and Friday off from blogging, I figured I would write about giving thanks today. I am finding a great many things to be thankful for from good health to amazing work (that frankly doesn’t feel [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Input/Output (Interrupts and Queues)
Albert Wenger – Nov 22, 2011
So far in Tech Tuesday we have taken a first look at how a computer does its work (processor), where it keeps data for quick access (memory), where data is kept longer term (storage) and how computers talk to each [...] Read more
Sharing: One Network (To Rule Them All) or Network of Networks?
Albert Wenger – Nov 21, 2011
Yesterday, Techmeme was ablaze with posts about sharing on Facebook’s Open Graph. A CNet post by Molly Wood with the title “How Facebook is ruining sharing” appears to have kicked it all off. In it she argues that the automated [...] Read more
Shapeways Brings the Future of Stuff to New York City!
Albert Wenger – Nov 18, 2011
When we announced the USV investment in Shapeways a little over a year ago, I pointed out the potential to make New York City a global center for 3D printing. Since then the Shapeways team has done a lot to [...] Read more