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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
A Mind Bender Worth Testing
Albert Wenger – Oct 15, 2009
As I wrote last year, I am not a fan of the reasoning behind taking the Large Hadron Collider into operation. If you have followed this story, then you know that last fall, the attempt to start experiments failed with [...] Read more
What Goldman Sachs Should Do
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2009
In yesterday’s “Dealbook” column in the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote that Goldman Sachs is headed for record bonuses and is thinking about making a $1B charitable contribution as a way to deflect criticism. That to me seems [...] Read more
Foursquare
Albert Wenger – Sep 1, 2009
We recently wrote about our search for native mobile applications, which we defined as applications that simply were not possible previously (as opposed to making something that already exists online accessible via mobile). We have also long been interested in [...] Read more
Heyzap
Albert Wenger – May 26, 2009
Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment. According to Comscore over 85 million people play casual games every month in the US alone and minutes spent playing grew a staggering 42% from 2008 to 2009. [...] Read more
AMEE
Albert Wenger – Dec 10, 2008
As anybody who has looked into dieting or just improving their nutrition knows, there is a lot of conflicting advice on the impact of fats and carbohydrates on your body. But no matter what you ultimately conclude, you are now [...] Read more