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Albert Wenger – Dec 31, 2010
Having spent a week off the grid and then a few more days slowly settling back in (not so much by choice as due to the blizzard in New York that left us “stranded” in Miami), I feel very much [...] Read more
Going Off the Grid
Albert Wenger – Dec 15, 2010
I am about to do something I haven’t done since becoming “hyper connected” - I am about to go off the grid. I will be traveling to a region sufficiently remote not to have cell phone coverage and there will [...] Read more
Broadband Access and Innovation
Albert Wenger – Dec 13, 2010
My partner Brad has a post up this morning on the USV blog detailing our view why Internet Access Should be Application Agnostic. This is an important topic as it is central to continued innovation by startups on the Internet [...] Read more
Email Overload (Apology)
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2010
I have sadly reached a point, where two things are happening with email despite my best efforts. First, I often write very short answers to emails. These answers could easily be perceived as rude even though that is not the [...] Read more
Bad Driving, Throughput and Waiting Times
Albert Wenger – Dec 7, 2010
There are two bad habits in car drivers that I find quite annoying: not pulling into the intersection and not signaling turns. The two in combination can dramatically reduce the throughput of an intersection. Unfortunately, one of those intersections is [...] Read more
Edmodo
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2010
Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called "Hacking Education" -- the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in [...] Read more
Thinking About Wikileaks
Albert Wenger – Dec 4, 2010
There is so much going on with Wikileaks that it’s hard to know where to start. Here are some of the questions that I am thinking about:Will the cable leaks make diplomacy harder or easier? Is the answer different for [...] Read more
10gen Fills The Tank
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2010
The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. This combination is particularly well suited to web development where frequent or continuous deployment are becoming the [...] Read more
What I Learned from my Google-Groupon Post
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2010
Yesterday’s post about the Google-Groupon deal generated a lot of views and comments and two important lessons. First, on a “meta” level there was a lesson about blogging. While I had known this to some degree before, for stimulating dialog [...] Read more