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Foursquare: Unbundling Use Cases
Albert Wenger – May 1, 2014
I am excited about Foursquare’s upcoming releases of two apps to unbundle social features from discovery features. You can read a detailed story about it over on the Verge reported by Ben Popper. Ben covers a lot of different angles. [...] Read more
From Industrial to Information Society in Five Disappearances
Albert Wenger – Apr 29, 2014
This will be the topic for my talk at DLD New York this coming Thursday. Here is the rough outline. If anyone has data to contribute I would much appreciate it since I am admittedly long on anecdotes and short [...] Read more
Information Capital (in the 21st Century)
Albert Wenger – Apr 24, 2014
I am still not finished reading “Capital in the 21st Century” but the following introduction to Chapter 11 really got me thinking: One of my main intuitions about the coming changes is that “information” will become more important than industrial, [...] Read more
The Aereo Case
Albert Wenger – Apr 23, 2014
Living in New York City and having cut the cord years ago, Aereo has been a terrific service for us. Yesterday the US Supreme Court started hearing arguments over whether the service is legal. Timothy B. Lee has an outstanding [...] Read more
More on Wealth and Randomness
Albert Wenger – Apr 22, 2014
Yesterday I wrote about startup wealth and randomness and got a lot of good comments. One of them led me to an important way of summarizing my argument about the role of randomness: While I wrote the post specifically about [...] Read more
Startup Wealth and Randomness
Albert Wenger – Apr 21, 2014
I have been writing a lot about wealth and income inequality and I am reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (review forthcoming as soon as I am finished). So it seems appropriate to ask how I feel about [...] Read more
Liberating (Innovation in) Mobile
Albert Wenger – Apr 17, 2014
Chris Dixon recently wrote a post about the decline of the mobile web and the shift to apps and how that is hurting innovation. Fred expanded on that theme in his post on the mobile downturn. So it is worth [...] Read more
Wealth and Speculation
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2014
At the moment I am writing about why I think the industrial system is breaking down as its main components are no longer functioning properly and sustaining each other. In particular I wrote about the growth and increased concentration of [...] Read more
Writing Software Applications In-House
Albert Wenger – Apr 14, 2014
There is something very exciting going on in the world of software: a shift towards developing new application software in-house (as opposed to relying on third party offerings). For instance, at USV we have developed the linksharing on usv.com and [...] Read more