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One Truth About Technology Architecture: Loose Coupling
Albert Wenger – Oct 30, 2009
One of the great things about being focused on investing in web services is that the technical challenges faced by almost all of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio tend to be the same. The solutions on the [...] Read more
More (Too Much?) Free from Google: Turn-By-Turn
Albert Wenger – Oct 29, 2009
Yesterday, Google announced something stunning: free turn-by-turn directions for Android 2.0 to be first available shortly on the Droid phones. It is stunning because the previously cheapest software only alternatives were apps such as Navigon ($89.99) and TomTom ($99.99) for [...] Read more
We Must Research Geo-Engineering
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2009
If you either follow the Freakonomics blog or any of the global warming / CO2 coverage, you will have by now encountered the tiff over the “climate chapter” (Chapter 5) of Superfreakonomics. If not, you can read Levitt’s most recent [...] Read more
Newspapers and EReaders (My Kindle Experience)
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2009
I am late to the Kindle show. Having grown up in Europe and going back there for vacation a fair bit (and reading books mostly on vacation and otherwise via DailyLit), I did not want to buy a US-only device. [...] Read more
Everything You Wanted To Know about MongoDB (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Albert Wenger – Oct 23, 2009
The NoSQL movement has been gathering a lot of steam lately (despite some folks misgivings about the name). There have been meetups in major cities around the world – most recently in Berlin – and there is a big conference [...] Read more
Breaking Down Walls: Tracked.com
Albert Wenger – Oct 21, 2009
Someone recently said to me that the most interesting things happening on the net these days are breaking down the walls between disparate realms of information and between different modes of interaction. Google Wave is a big attempt to at [...] Read more
Silence Is Not The Same As Agreement
Albert Wenger – Oct 20, 2009
A while back I did a series of posts on board effectiveness. In it I wrote the following about conducting a board meeting: I have recently come to learn an important lesson: If the person running the board meeting is [...] Read more
Why Is Microchunked Video for Education Not (Yet) Taking Off?
Albert Wenger – Oct 19, 2009
Apparently some of the early television shows were essentially “filmed radio" (I know I have heard this quote a number of times, but of course right now I don’t seem to be able to find a link on google). In [...] Read more
We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Albert Wenger – Oct 16, 2009
Yesterday was an impressive day in tech news. Here are three announcements that caught my attention: I believe that each of these is important in their own right (and they may make it into their own blog posts). But what [...] Read more