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Talent Agency for Engineers and Product Managers?
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2010
With so much infrastructure to build on, we are seeing smaller and smaller teams achieve amazing things. The combination of someone with a great product sense and one or two exceptional engineers can build and launch a new product or [...] Read more
Beware the Firesheep
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2010
I have long operated an open and unsecured wifi access point at home. Why? For anything that really requires security, such as online banking, I am relying on end-to-end encryption via SSL. That requires being somewhat diligent to make sure [...] Read more
Clarifications Re Net Neutrality
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2010
Last week I wrote that content owners’ decision to block access to TV content they had made available on the web based on recognizing which browser it was (in particular identifying and blocking Google TV) was a threat to net [...] Read more
A Great Many (Evening) Events
Albert Wenger – Oct 25, 2010
By at least one metric of the health and growth of the NY startup community things could hardly be going better: the quality and quantity of events. This week alone there seems to be at least one event every day [...] Read more
A Different Threat to Net Neutrality
Albert Wenger – Oct 22, 2010
The whole fight about net neutrality is about to take a turn from the abstract to the concrete but in a somewhat unexpected way. It is not ISPs or telcos that are turning out to be the immediate culprits, but [...] Read more
Pages Weigh Too Much
Albert Wenger – Oct 21, 2010
I continue to be amazed how big web pages have grown these days. They are routinely 500+ KB for some trivial amount of actual content. That’s obviously not an issue when I am browsing on a true broadband connection. But [...] Read more
The Changing Income Distribution
Albert Wenger – Oct 20, 2010
This post is part of my Age of Abundance series. As I remarked in the outline for the series, changes in the income distribution are likely to be an important aspect of the transition. The following lays out my hypothesis [...] Read more
(Intentionally) Missing the Point of Online Social
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2010
So I haven’t seen “The Social Network” yet and there is a good chance I won’t get around to it at all, as I am crazy busy at the moment (and fighting off a cold). But I have read enough [...] Read more
Age of Abundance Expanded
Albert Wenger – Oct 13, 2010
I got a lot of useful questions and feedback on my Age of Abundance (AoA) post yesterday - thanks! Two important points to address right away are what I mean by Abundance (and why I chose that term) and what [...] Read more