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More on Internet Freedom
Albert Wenger – Nov 29, 2010
Over the holiday several events happened that illustrate that we are facing a clear and present danger to the freedom of the Internet.It started with the US government seizing a bunch of domains that were accused of participating in copyright [...] Read more
Tasty Labs
Albert Wenger – Nov 24, 2010
We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter's new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious -- in my case "working with" was literal -- and [...] Read more
Tasty Labs
Albert Wenger – Nov 24, 2010
I am very excited to be working with Joshua again. You can read (a bit) more on the Union Square Ventures blog about our investment in Tasty Labs. Read more
Mobile is the New Online
Albert Wenger – Nov 23, 2010
Fred has a post today titled “Mobile First, Web Second” http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/mobile-first-web-second-continued.html which is spot on. There is an important additional reason for pursuing this strategy: on the web everything is about displacement, on mobile there is still mostly open space. [...] Read more
Giving to Senator Ron Wyden and Defeating COICA
Albert Wenger – Nov 22, 2010
Yesterday, I gave $1,000 to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. With this post I want to convince you to do the same (or at least give something to him). Why? Because Ron Wyden has taken a stand against the awful [...] Read more
Mark Zuckerberg as Bill Gates
Albert Wenger – Nov 17, 2010
Listening to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday at W2Summit was fascinating. First, I have seen Mark’s performance on stage go from awkward and tentative three years ago to assured and compelling now. Second, it couldn’t be clearer that Mark is singularly in [...] Read more
IPOs 2.0
Albert Wenger – Nov 16, 2010
Super detailed post by Bill Gurley about IPOs followed by a riff from Fred with more good reasons why could and should see more IPOs from Internet companies. So I am piling on with an IPO post as well, but [...] Read more
Photo Sharing 3.0
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2010
There is a whole resurgence of photo sharing and it is all based on creating a natively mobile experience (as opposed to adding mobile as an after thought). This is interesting two reasons. First, photo sharing is of course one [...] Read more
A Radical Proposal To Avoid the Mallification of the Web
Albert Wenger – Nov 12, 2010
The rumor is that Facebook will on Monday unveil a fairly full fledged webmail solution. At the same time Google is working hard on some kind of new social network. Microsoft too is trying to have email, search, social, etc. [...] Read more