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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
2011 Personal Projects
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