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Thinking About My Next Laptop
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2012
It’s been about 3.5 years since I bought my current MacBook. That’s usually when I start thinking about what to buy next. I like to own the same machine for at least three and possibly four years and so historically [...] Read more
Attention Scarcity, Transactions and Native (Mobile) Monetization
Albert Wenger – Jul 16, 2012
Dalton Caldwell kicked up a fair bit of discussion with his post on paid-for services including a defense of free by my partner Fred. Here is a slightly different take on the issue at hand when looking at “media” style [...] Read more
Brewster Launches
Albert Wenger – Jul 12, 2012
I am excited about today’s launch of Brewster, despite it being iPhone only for the moment. Last week we spent time cleaning out the attic of our old house in the burbs (which my brother-in-law is taking over). In a [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Control Structures
Albert Wenger – Jul 10, 2012
Last time in the Tech Tuesday cycle on programming we saw that so-called reserved words have special meaning. They effectively constitute the built-in vocabulary of a programming language. Now let’s go all the way back to the basic analogy that [...] Read more
Gerhard Kallmann (1915 – 2012)
Albert Wenger – Jul 9, 2012
A couple of weeks ago Gerhard Kallmann passed away. He was a most extraordinary man. You can read about his biography and influential work as an architect in the Boston Globe or the New York Times or one of several [...] Read more
Yay for Independent Judges Going After Software Patents
Albert Wenger – Jul 6, 2012
Growing up in Germany I learned a lot about a legal system in which judges are only applying the law not also making it through their decisions. Precedent plays a very limited roll in the German system. It took me [...] Read more
Declaration of Internet Freedom
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2012
Some fine folks have been hard at work to draft a Declaration of Internet Freedom. I couldn’t agree more with the preamble: So please go and read the Declaration. If you agree with it, you can sign it by following [...] Read more
Bayesian Probability and a Theory of Life (Skillshare Class)
Albert Wenger – Jun 29, 2012
On July 11 at noon I will be teaching my Skillshare class on Bayesian Probability and a Theory of Life again. I am really looking forward to doing so for a bunch of different reasons. First, I really enjoyed teaching [...] Read more
What If We Give It Away: Lessons from TED
Andy Weissman – Jun 28, 2012
"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" What if the value your service or company provides may not be the one you originally or naturally think it [...] Read more