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The Great Fragmentation
Andy Weissman – Aug 31, 2012
A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." Then I [...] Read more
End of Summer Blogging and Info Drip Break
Albert Wenger – Aug 16, 2012
I will be taking most of the rest of August off from writing daily blog posts. I am largely doing this because I will also be unplugging from the constant information drip. This is the information equivalent of a purge [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 3 – Argument Passing)
Albert Wenger – Aug 14, 2012
In the last two Tech Tuesdays we have learned about how functions let us define new words in a programming language and how arguments and other local variables are restricted to the scope of the function. Today we will take [...] Read more
App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2012
Dalton Caldwell announced yesterday on his blog and on Twitter that app.net has reached its initial funding goal. I look forward to seeing what happens next and am watching the api spec on Github. Here is what I believe would [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 2 – Scope)
Albert Wenger – Aug 7, 2012
Last Tech Tuesday we learned about functions as a way to define our own words in a programming language. We saw that functions take arguments and return results back to where the function was used in the program. We refer [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: Guest Post From Susan Loh
Fred Wilson – Aug 6, 2012
When I introduced this series on People, I stated that it was going to have a bunch of guest posts because there are many people who know a lot more about the people side of business than I do. One [...] Read more
ECommerce Hack Day
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2012
This past weekend was the first annual Ecommerce Hack Day in New York organized by Dwolla and Etsy with support from many other companies. I was delighted to be a judge as there were a lot of talented folks working [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Covestor Profile Videos
Albert Wenger – Aug 3, 2012
Video has proven to be a very powerful way of connecting with people online. I think no site demonstrates this more than Kickstarter. For instance, Allison Weiss raising money to make a new record (one of the very early projects), [...] Read more
German National Computer Science Competition
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2012
Only a short post today as I was spending most of the morning on the phone with some PR folks in Germany talking about the German National Computer Science Competition (page in German). I participated in and was one of [...] Read more