A historical collection of our writing.
I love Vernor Vinge’s concept of a “programmer-archeologist” (A Deepness In the Sky, he also coined “programmer-at-arms”) as someone who digs through the layers of existing systems to understand why and how stuff works. I was reminded of this over the weekend, as I worked through some old code of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the great things about being focused on investing in web services is that the technical challenges faced by almost all of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio tend to be the same. The solutions on the other hand vary widely. Some companies rack their own servers, others are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday, Google announced something stunning: free turn-by-turn directions for Android 2.0 to be first available shortly on the Droid phones. It is stunning because the previously cheapest software only alternatives were apps such as Navigon ($89.99) and TomTom ($99.99) for the iPhone (as an […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
If you either follow the Freakonomics blog or any of the global warming / CO2 coverage, you will have by now encountered the tiff over the “climate chapter” (Chapter 5) of Superfreakonomics. If not, you can read Levitt’s most recent defense and compare with an impact summary written from the other […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am late to the Kindle show. Having grown up in Europe and going back there for vacation a fair bit (and reading books mostly on vacation and otherwise via DailyLit), I did not want to buy a US-only device. So I jumped on the international Kindle, pre-ordering as soon as it was announced (something […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The technology industry has a seeming lack of institutional memory – the constant cycle of invention and reinvention while barely looking to the past. It’s so optimistic in nature.But we sometimes need to look to the past to sharpen our pattern recognition. We started betaworks by specifically […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
