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Black Lives Matter: Protest and Democracy
Albert Wenger – Jul 11, 2016
I have been meaning to write about my recent experience with Google App Engine and also about the Pokemon Go phenomenon. And I will eventually do so, but given the events in the US this past week these topics seem [...] Read more
Needed: Declaration of In-TER-dependence
Albert Wenger – Jul 4, 2016
As an immigrant to America, I have enjoyed many 4th of July celebrations over the years. Given the Brexit vote, I woke up today wondering though what it means for a nation to be independent in the world we live [...] Read more
Excited about MongoDB Atlas (DBaaS)
Albert Wenger – Jun 29, 2016
Yesterday I attended MongoDB World here in Manhattan. There was a huge turnout and excellent sessions but the most exciting part of the day for me was the announcement of MongoDB Atlas. Atlas is MongoDB as a service (part of [...] Read more
Brexit and (Direct) Democracy
Albert Wenger – Jun 27, 2016
I have been writing here on Continuations and in my book World After Capital that we need to be vigilant and defend democracy. Many people are taking the Brexit vote as evidence that direct democracy is a bad idea. While [...] Read more
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Albert Wenger – Jun 23, 2016
Yesterday we publicly announced our 2016 fund and with it an evolution that has taken place behind the scenes at USV. Andy and I are now the managing partners with Fred, Brad and John continuing to invest and participate fully [...] Read more
The Path to Learning requires Failing: The DAO
Albert Wenger – Jun 18, 2016
Both individually and collectively we learn more from our failures than from our successes. Failures make us question our assumptions, successes generally don’t. I therefore welcome the hack of the DAO (even if I wind up losing the 0.5 BTC [...] Read more
Wattpad Turner Partnership: Write for Television!
Albert Wenger – Jun 13, 2016
When we first invested in Wattpad in 2011, we were excited about the community for writing and reading stories that was growing all around the world. Much as happened since then, including the publication of After which was a breakout [...] Read more
The Missing Mouse: VR’s Navigation (and Touch) Problem
Albert Wenger – Jun 9, 2016
As I wrote in my earlier blog post, VR is something that needs to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Once you do experience it, get past the initial amazing fascination and start playing games a fairly glaring problem reveals [...] Read more
The Coming Paradigm Shift in Manufacturing
Albert Wenger – Jun 6, 2016
The Star Trek replicator stands as the ultimate dream of on-demand manufacturing. The bad news is that despite advances in 3D printing we are many breakthroughs (including nearly abundant energy) away from realizing that dream. The good news is that [...] Read more