By Albert Wenger—Jan 21, 2013

This week’s blog posts will likely be rather short as I am traveling in Europe. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 18, 2013

Bijan has a good post up today with “Some Thoughts on the Future of Search.” This is a topic on my mind following Facebook’s announcement of Graph Search and my upcoming appearance on Monday at DLD on a panel titled Next Generation Search, together with Philip Inghelbrecht (Rockmelt), Wolf Garbe […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 17, 2013

For a moment I thought it was a typo when I saw the headline “Survey Monkey Raises $800 Million in Debt and Equity.” Shouldn’t that be $80 million? No. What’s going on? Survey Monkey essentially just provided a massive private liquidity event to its investors and employers. And it did so while […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 15, 2013

This will be almost the last Tech Tuesday post in the initial series on programming. The basic premise of this series was that programming is a lot like giving a person instructions for how to do something. As I had mentioned in the very first post of the series and then again in the recap, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 14, 2013

The Internet changes everything. Aaron Swartz knew and embraced that at an age when most of us think that the biggest problem we are facing is this week’s home work assignment. For the first time in human history we can connect to each other independent of where or who we are. We have at our […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jan 11, 2013

In marketing a site or service, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. For market places such as Etsy and Shapeways this is easy because they can lead with pictures of some gorgeous products available for sale. But what about an abstract service such as payments? For a long time Dwolla’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)