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American Censorship Day
Andy Weissman – Nov 16, 2011
Today is American Censorship Day, so named because there is legislation working its way through Congress that would materially harm innovation and impede speech.You can read about why so many of us feel so strongly that this legislation is particularly [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: No Computer is an Island (Networking)
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2011
It is funny how quickly we take things for granted that didn’t exist just a few years back (obligatory reference to Louis C.K. rant about appreciating technology). Today the thought of using a computer that’s not connected to a network [...] Read more
Work on an Amazing Community: Wattpad is Hiring Engineers
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2011
A few months ago we invested in Toronto-based Wattpad. In introducing the investment, I wrote the following paragraph on the Union Square Ventures blog: Since then Wattpad has moved into a new office and celebrated its 5th birthday. Yes – [...] Read more
Wikipedia, Occupy Wallstreet and the Possibility of an Open Congress
Albert Wenger – Nov 11, 2011
Whenever my kids tell me how their teachers don’t want them to use Wikipedia as a source I redouble my effort to show them why Wikipedia is important and how it works. In particular, I make sure they understand how [...] Read more
Emergency Broadcast System Fails Social Test
Albert Wenger – Nov 10, 2011
While I was driving the kids around on the weekend one of the radio stations announced that there would be the first ever nation wide test of the Emergency Broadcast System. My almost immediate reaction was something like “isn’t Twitter [...] Read more
Thinking About Social Networks
Albert Wenger – Nov 9, 2011
This morning on Techmeme I ran across three interesting and thought provoking pieces about social networks (all from within the last 24 hours it seems): 1. Maciej Ceglowski’s “The Social Graph is Neither” (10 points for great title alone) is [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Storage (Oh My, How It Has Grown)
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2011
So far of the building blocks for computer systems we have covered processors and memory. We have seen that processors have become massively faster and that memory has become massively cheaper. Today we will learn about storage and find that [...] Read more
Margin Call (Movie Review)
Albert Wenger – Nov 7, 2011
Susan and I saw Margin Call on Saturday night. The movie has a great cast, including Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey and one of my personal favorites, Paul Bettany. My theory is that the more you know about finance, the more [...] Read more
Startup Weekend Syracuse
Albert Wenger – Nov 4, 2011
I am about to get on a plane to fly up to Syracuse for Startup Weekend. Really looking forward to meeting the participants. It is awesome to have many more people exploring startups as an alternative to working at some [...] Read more