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Inflation Coming?
Albert Wenger – Jan 13, 2011
Apologies up front for no links as I am typing this on the train to the city. I am curious to find out whether anyone else thinks that 2011 will be the year that inflation returns (and possibly with a [...] Read more
Guns
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2011
Much has already been said about the need for more gun control in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting of Rep. Giffords. I am in complete agreement that we need much tighter controls, especially for assault weapons (which should encompass [...] Read more
Kinect and the Metaverse
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2011
Our older son had wanted an XBox for a long time, but I was loath to add yet another gaming console to our Gamecube and Wii. With the release of the Kinect controller, however, I could no longer resist as [...] Read more
Google (or Microsoft) Should Pick Up Delicious
Albert Wenger – Jan 10, 2011
After at first appearing to be shutting it down, Yahoo is now apparently selling delicious (or possibly giving it away). Google or Microsoft should be first in line to pick it up, but especially Google. Why? Because delicious would help [...] Read more
SoundCloud
Fred Wilson – Jan 7, 2011
The web has been largely a silent affair for its first fifteen years. Part of this is that the music industry has struggled with the web and what it means for its business model. Part of it is that podcasting [...] Read more
Global Namespace for People (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2011
I ended yesterday’s post by saying that I would write about potential solutions to the global namespace problem for people (parts 1 and 2). So here we go with a post on what seems to be happening (to be followed [...] Read more
RSS Continued
Fred Wilson – Jan 5, 2011
This is a followup post from yesterday's one on RSS. Two things I want to add. There is now an RSS feed just for MBA Mondays. It is available in the AVC RSS page. But for all of you who [...] Read more
Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime
Andy Weissman – Jan 5, 2011
Lou Reed wrote this line (my favorite lyric ever) in the context of relationships (I think). But it's much more applicable than that.Ideas for new businesses are amazing, wonderful, creative things. What makes ideas so interesting is that they are [...] Read more
Global Namespace for People (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Jan 5, 2011
Yesterday, I started a short series of posts on the global namespace for consumer web services. My quick and highly unscientific survey of readers showed a surprisingly high usage of usernames based on real names. I suspect that to be [...] Read more