Nick Bradbury on Desktop RSS Readers

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Nick Bradbury at NewsGator the past few years.  Nick created one of my all time favorite pieces of software – FeedDemon – which

January 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

NewsGator's Next Big Move

When Greg Reinacker – NewsGator’s founder and CTO – first talked to me about NewsGator, he told me that he wanted to create software to enable everyone on the planet

January 10, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Bug Labs von Hippel Module

When I was a doctoral student at MIT, my advisor was Eric von Hippel.  I’ve had my fair share of mentors in my 42 years – Eric has been one

January 5, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Lijit Stats – How I Love Thee

Lijit released another version of their blog stats.  With each release, the chocolaty goodness of Lijit gets tastier.  I’ve now got a fancy summary page, real time geolocation from Quo

January 4, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Day In The Life of Harmonix

The Boston Globe has a great "Office Invasion" series on their web site.  If you are into Guitar Hero or Rock Band, take a look at the Harmonix office and

December 20, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Financing Winners Like NewsGator

Last week NewsGator announced that it had raised a $12m round led by new investor Vista Ventures and existing investors Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead.  Greg Reinacker – NewsGator

December 17, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Lijit Live3D With Google Earth

Wanna see a cool hack? Fire up Lijit Live 3D. This is semi-real time view (there are some delays built in to prevent you from getting nauseous) in Google Earth

November 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Rock Band Rocks

My affection for the amazing games from the gang at Harmonix crosses several boundaries, including the well revered financial one.  As an angel investor in Harmonix, I bow down and

November 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Great Example of Blogging Changes to Your Product

I’m a small investor in Shelfari.  I read a ton and thought it would be fun to play along with them at home and both a user and an investor.

November 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Video of Shelfari's OpenSocial Implementation

My investment in Shelfari has been a lot of fun. Josh Hug and his team are monsters – they get stuff done incredibly quickly. Plus I get to play with my books

November 3, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld