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From the Locus of Computation (Chromebook) to the Locus of Control (?)
Albert Wenger – May 12, 2011
Google’s announcements of Chromebook and subscription pricing offer a great opportunity to reflect on where we are in the history of computing. It is all too easy to think of this as something radically new, when it is simply the [...] Read more
On Incubators
Albert Wenger – May 9, 2011
As with the previous cycle, we are once again seeing the formation of many new incubators (Om has a post up which inspired my post). Having co-founded an incubator and having observed a bunch of others over the years, I [...] Read more
Skype Should Not Sell
Albert Wenger – May 6, 2011
Despite their best efforts to screw up the Mac client, I still love Skype both as a consumer service and as an independent company. Back when eBay decided to spin out Skype to private investors instead of waiting and spinning [...] Read more
Fake Quotes and Information Cascades
Albert Wenger – May 4, 2011
On Monday as I was reading reactions on the web about the successful raid on Osama bin laden’s compound, I kept coming across a quote “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in [...] Read more
Delicious Thoughts
Albert Wenger – May 3, 2011
I was thrilled to see that delicious has found a new home. Not only do I continue to actively use delicious nearly every day but having been involved intimately with its brief life as a separate company I have an [...] Read more
Catching a Break (Because Life is Unfair)
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2011
As a graduate student at MIT, I studied a bunch of econometrics and one of my favorite instructors was Prof. Jerry Hausman (he of the Hausman test). Prof. Hausman would find a way in every lecture to somehow include his [...] Read more
Reasoning from First Principles
Albert Wenger – Apr 28, 2011
There were a lot of really interesting comments to my question about retail trends earlier this week. Thanks to all who contributed to the discussion. As I am thinking about how to organize all of these, I am reminded that [...] Read more
Looking for Input On Retail Trends
Albert Wenger – Apr 26, 2011
This Friday I will be meeting with some of the senior management from a major branded retail chain in the US to talk about how the web and mobile are impacting their business. In preparation, I am thinking about key [...] Read more
Getting Started with Arduino (in Praise of Adafruit)
Albert Wenger – Apr 25, 2011
I am currently reading James Gleick’s “The Information,” which I highly recommend (more on that in a separate post). In it is a wonderful chapter on Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace, which makes it clear how amazing her insights into [...] Read more