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Nov 16, 2011

We have previously written about why the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is bad for innovation. The same is true of the House version of this bill which is called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In fact, SOPA goes beyond ... Read more

Nov 16, 2011

Starting today and for the foreseeable future the “Continuations” at the top of this blog will be covered with a call to Stop Censorship. If you read yesterday’s Tech Tuesday post on networking or are familiar with the history of ... Read more

Nov 15, 2011

It is funny how quickly we take things for granted that didn’t exist just a few years back (obligatory reference to Louis C.K. rant about appreciating technology). Today the thought of using a computer that’s not connected to a network ... Read more

Nov 14, 2011

A few months ago we invested in Toronto-based Wattpad. In introducing the investment, I wrote the following paragraph on the Union Square Ventures blog: Since then Wattpad has moved into a new office and celebrated its 5th birthday. Yes – ... Read more

Nov 11, 2011

Whenever my kids tell me how their teachers don’t want them to use Wikipedia as a source I redouble my effort to show them why Wikipedia is important and how it works. In particular, I make sure they understand how ... Read more

Nov 10, 2011

While I was driving the kids around on the weekend one of the radio stations announced that there would be the first ever nation wide test of the Emergency Broadcast System. My almost immediate reaction was something like “isn’t Twitter ... Read more

Nov 9, 2011

This morning on Techmeme I ran across three interesting and thought provoking pieces about social networks (all from within the last 24 hours it seems): 1. Maciej Ceglowski’s “The Social Graph is Neither” (10 points for great title alone) is ... Read more

Nov 8, 2011

So far of the building blocks for computer systems we have covered processors and memory. We have seen that processors have become massively faster and that memory has become massively cheaper. Today we will learn about storage and find that ... Read more

Nov 7, 2011

Susan and I saw Margin Call on Saturday night. The movie has a great cast, including Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey and one of my personal favorites, Paul Bettany. My theory is that the more you know about finance, the more ... Read more