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Rooting for Larry and the Internet
Albert Wenger – Jan 21, 2011
I am thrilled to see Larry Page take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt. In a post a few months back I had expressed my worry that Google was headed the way of Yahoo under too much “professional management” and [...] Read more
LivingSocial, Groupon and Defensibility
Albert Wenger – Jan 20, 2011
LivingSocial yesterday was selling $20 for $10, which is a good deal for everyone buying it (and remembering to then make use of their Amazon gift card). Not surprisingly, they sold at least 1 million for a total value of [...] Read more
Android Badly Needs a Successful Tablet
Albert Wenger – Jan 19, 2011
If there was any doubt, the iPad is a huge winner for Apple with 7.3 million units shipped in the last quarter. Casual observation from flying a fair bit has made that obvious over the last few months. You can’t [...] Read more
We Need to Refactor Government
Albert Wenger – Jan 18, 2011
Fred posted over the weekend about deficit reduction. What we really need though is not cutting within the existing system, but rather restructuring government for the age of the Internet. We currently seem to be in the habit of piling [...] Read more
Inflation Coming?
Albert Wenger – Jan 13, 2011
Apologies up front for no links as I am typing this on the train to the city. I am curious to find out whether anyone else thinks that 2011 will be the year that inflation returns (and possibly with a [...] Read more
Guns
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2011
Much has already been said about the need for more gun control in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting of Rep. Giffords. I am in complete agreement that we need much tighter controls, especially for assault weapons (which should encompass [...] Read more
Kinect and the Metaverse
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2011
Our older son had wanted an XBox for a long time, but I was loath to add yet another gaming console to our Gamecube and Wii. With the release of the Kinect controller, however, I could no longer resist as [...] Read more
Google (or Microsoft) Should Pick Up Delicious
Albert Wenger – Jan 10, 2011
After at first appearing to be shutting it down, Yahoo is now apparently selling delicious (or possibly giving it away). Google or Microsoft should be first in line to pick it up, but especially Google. Why? Because delicious would help [...] Read more
Global Namespace for People (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2011
I ended yesterday’s post by saying that I would write about potential solutions to the global namespace problem for people (parts 1 and 2). So here we go with a post on what seems to be happening (to be followed [...] Read more