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Chrome for Android
Albert Wenger – Jun 27, 2012
Google has been showing off a lot of neat goodies at Google I/O. But the most interesting announcement as far as I can tell of the day is the availability of Chrome for Android. The existing Android browser is relatively [...] Read more
Recognizing Alan Turing
Albert Wenger – Jun 25, 2012
This weekend marked the celebration of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Turing was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and made major contributions to cryptanalysis and started the theory of computability. He died shortly before his 42nd birthday [...] Read more
Mobile Identity (Phone Numbers are Toast)
Albert Wenger – Jun 21, 2012
About 3 years ago, I wrote how phone numbers might be an important part of mobile identity. I started to change my mind on this last year. Now I am thinking that phone numbers may in fact much more rapidly [...] Read more
Duolingo and Why We Need to Protect the Internet
Albert Wenger – Jun 20, 2012
Yesterday my partner Brad announced our investment in Duolingo. Duolingo is an ambitious attempt to provide free language learning and use all the work by the learners to provide a translation service. You can watch Luis von Ahn’s TED Talk [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Types (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Jun 19, 2012
This will be the third and final part of talking about data types as part of the programming cycle on Tech Tuesdays. Part 1 introduced the basic issue. Part 2 went under the hood and showed how explicit type declarations [...] Read more
My Slightly Odd and Yet Perfect Father’s Day
Albert Wenger – Jun 18, 2012
I love what I do as a VC at USV. Being involved with many different companies each with unique opportunities and challenges is absolutely amazing. But it does mean that I have very little time to build things myself. So [...] Read more
Cities, Venture for America and the Downtown Project
Albert Wenger – Jun 13, 2012
Last night I went to a fundraiser for Venture for America here in New York. I am happy to report that the place was hopping and hopefully a lot of money was raised. Congratulations to Andrew Yang and his team [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Types (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Jun 12, 2012
Last Tech Tuesday we got started on data types as port of the ongoing cycle on programming. This post will not make sense without reading Part 1, so if you haven’t you should go back and do that now. We [...] Read more
Speaking at Velocity Conf (Seeking Input)
Albert Wenger – Jun 11, 2012
Velocity is a great O'Reilly conference on web performance and operations and many of the devops attend each year. The theme for 2012 is “A Faster, Stronger Web.” I am honored to be giving a keynote there and what will [...] Read more