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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
Global Namespace for People (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Jan 5, 2011
Yesterday, I started a short series of posts on the global namespace for consumer web services. My quick and highly unscientific survey of readers showed a surprisingly high usage of usernames based on real names. I suspect that to be [...] Read more
Global Namespace for People (Part 1)
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2011
I have been thinking a lot recently about the global namespace for people. My thoughts on this are far from settled and there are a lot of them, so I have decided to break this up into a bunch of [...] Read more
The Private IPO
Albert Wenger – Jan 3, 2011
Yes, I realize that’s a contradiction, but it seems to capture the essence of deals such as Goldman’s investment in Facebook at a $50B valuation and Groupon’s half-complete $950 million fundraising effort. These deals are designed to provide significant liquidity [...] Read more