Basic Twitter Advice to Companies: Shorten Your Tweets

I retweet a lot of stuff – hopefully it’s useful to the folks that follow my twitter stream.  I try to keep the retweets relevant – either useful business stuff,

August 26, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

An Example of Failing At Marketing Using Twitter

I don’t know who’s managing the District 9 twitter marketing campaign, but their abuse of twitter (via their creation of Twam – “twitter spam”) just caused me to decide not

August 19, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

A Patent Ban on Microsoft Word and a Haiku

I haven’t written about software patents in a while.  I still hate them and think they are an illogical construct.  But first, a haiku from xkcd to warm you up

August 12, 2009 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Unbearable Stupidity of Some Patents

If I told you that I had just filed a patent for “a system to sell equity in domain names”, I’d expect you to laugh at me.  I haven’t ranted

July 2, 2009 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Make Me Happy – There’s An App for That

I’ve been a delighted iPhone user since they upgraded the software to have mail / contact / calendar sync with Exchange.  With the 3.0 version of the software, I’m even

July 1, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Magic of Data Visualization

I love data.  And I adore playing with it graphically, as I learn a lot from graphing longitudinal data about things I’m involved in.  However, I find that almost all

June 14, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I’ve Run Out of Namespace in My Brain

I’ve never been great with remembering names the first time I meet someone.  I’ve tried all the usual tricks and haven’t found one that works.  For me, it’s a matter

June 12, 2009 · 2 min · Brad Feld

It’s All About The Faces

I heard the line “it’s all about the faces” from someone in the past few weeks.  The line stuck with me and I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.

May 26, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Public Restroom as HCI Laboratory

Well – that serves me right.  If you requested a Gist beta invite, be patient.  I’m grinding through my inbox and you’ll have your invite by tomorrow at the latest.

May 22, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Web Is Working Harder For Me

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled The Maturing of the Implicit Web.  In it I talked about new releases from AdaptiveBlue and OneRiot.  As I sit here

May 21, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld