Reboot – You'll Feel Better

For the last 20 years the solution to at least 50% of my computer problems is “reboot.” Interestingly this is no longer a PC problem. While working on getting Amy’s

October 1, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Development Tools for the Facebook Platform

Brilliant moves by Widgetbox and Dapper (I’m not an investor in either company.) Both of them have released “development tools for building Facebook apps.” Widgetbox

September 27, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Joel's Explanation of the Excel 100000 Bug

As usual, Joel Spolsky has an excellent explanation of the Excel 100000 bug. (Thanks Rick)

September 27, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Excel 100000 Bug

Software has bugs. Lots of them. I am a master bug finder (anyone that has had me bang on their stuff likely has at least one anecdote about this.) Today’s

September 25, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Parallel Universes

I’ve been in a few parallel universes recently and am noticing it happening more and more. I like parallel universes – it always smells like opportunity to me (plus I get

September 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Semantic Web Can Be Your Friend

Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. I have a small investment in

September 20, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Patents Continue to be Silly

Jonathan Schwartz – the CEO of Sun – has a superb blog post up today titled Thank You, Network Appliance. Apparently Network Appliance has sued Sun for patent infringement and

September 7, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Constipation of Scale

Every successful startup goes through it. I got a note from a friend yesterday in response to an email I sent him about one of his startups where I said

September 5, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Montana Future

In 1991, a group of ten people (including me and Amy) gathered at a resort in Stowe, VT to have a Chautauqua to discuss the future. We had a magnificent weekend

August 27, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Fun With Friends

After waking up from a nap dreaming about Social Graphs (ok – not really) I realized I’d never tried to integrate my Outlook contacts into “the other stuff I use

August 18, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld