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Blog Posts by Albert Wenger

Jan 19, 2010

I have been carrying around a Nexus One for a couple of weeks (in addition to my somewhat nervous feeling Blackberry). There is a ton to like about the Nexus. It works fantastically well with all of Google’s services. Read more

Jan 15, 2010

I am a huge fan of the Lean Startup philosophy (and Eric Ries / Steve Blank who have done so much to evangelize it). Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between this approach and network effects. Read more

Jan 13, 2010

I have worried on and off on this blog about the growing reach of Google. But yesterday I was thrilled to see Google take a determined stance on the issue of censorship and – by implication human rights – in Read more

Jan 12, 2010

My partner Brad put up a great post on the USV blog yesterday, arguing for an independent invention defense against software patents. A while back, I had proposed an alternative, a change in how litigation works. In that post, I Read more

Jan 11, 2010

The demand for books, music, news, TV, phone calls is constrained by the time that people have. In a mature market (e.g., the US) that time is growing at best at the rate of population growth (low single digits), but Read more

Jan 8, 2010

I am going to my kids’ school this morning to meet with the head of the computer lab, the principal and the district’s main computer person to talk about Scratch (that is assuming it stops snowing!). The school is beginning Read more

Jan 7, 2010

Even if Apple were to announce something entirely different on Jan 27 (just love the idea of the biggest headfake yet) it is clear that 2010 will be the year of slates, with Ballmer showing off HP’s upcoming Windows 7-based Read more

Jan 6, 2010

Tonight I will be on Brian Lehrer’s TV show, together with Chris Dixon and Henry Blodget, to talk about what’s in store for NYC tech startups over the next decade. At least that is the putative topic, although I would Read more

Jan 5, 2010

UPDATE: As the comment by vruz correctly points out, I am wrong in my use of the term uncanny valley, exactly because the creatures depicted in Avatar are not human. Still believe that we are seeing the beginning of something Read more