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45+10=1 hour (Getting Things Done)
Albert Wenger – Mar 16, 2012
This week I have been trying out a new approach to meetings. Instead of using up the entire time in the calendar for the meeting itself, I am trying to keep the meeting a bit shorter (45 minutes in the [...] Read more
Yahoo Facebook Patent Battle: Mobilizing Engineers
Albert Wenger – Mar 14, 2012
If Yahoo had any shred of credibility left with developers then it has succeeded in destroying that with its misguided patent lawsuit against Facebook. But the suit isn’t all bad. It has the potential to become a catalytic event for [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: CSS
Albert Wenger – Mar 13, 2012
In last week’s Tech Tuesday we learned about HTML which is used to describe the content of a web page. Today, we will inspect something called Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS for short) which determines what that content looks like. [...] Read more
The Board Of Directors – Selecting, Electing & Evolving
Fred Wilson – Mar 12, 2012
Every company should have a Board Of Directors. At the start it can simply be a one person board consisting of the founder. But it should not stay that way for long. Because if you are your own board, you [...] Read more
Edmodo Platform: Connecting Developers to the Classroom
Albert Wenger – Mar 12, 2012
I love it when a plan comes together. The plan in question is the Edmodo Platform. When we invested in Edmodo in the fall of 2010, the company was just beginning to really grow its network of students and teachers. [...] Read more
The Vibe: Shapeways + Soundcloud = Awesome
Albert Wenger – Mar 10, 2012
I usually take weekends off from blogging, but this one is just too good to pass up: Shapeways and Soundcloud have teamed up to bring out “the Vibe” an iPhone case which comes with a completely custom waveform as its [...] Read more
A Rational Internet Venture Valuations Bubble
Albert Wenger – Mar 9, 2012
There is no doubt in my mind that venture valuations have become incredibly stretched. I have been thinking about why that is and what will come of it. First off, here are the factors contributing to the stretching of valuations. [...] Read more
Heyzap Releases Self-Documenting API
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2012
Heyzap’s API announcement is technically yesterday’s news, but there is so much to like here that I figured I would write about it today. First, they announced this on their newly launched developer blog. Etsy has had a developer blog [...] Read more
Dispatch from London
Albert Wenger – Mar 7, 2012
Very short post as I am about to get on a plane to fly back from London to New York (and Virgin Atlantic does not yet have wifi on its flights). Reading the papers in London and talking to people [...] Read more