My Quest For A Personal Dashboard

I ingest a ton of information on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.  My process for doing it today is entirely manual.  I’m starting to look around for

October 12, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Why Did Microsoft License Exchange ActiveSync to Apple?

While I’m delighted that my iPhone syncs with my Exchange Server, I’ve been struggling to figure out why Microsoft licensed ActiveSync to Apple (and Google).  For a long time, I

September 8, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Drumbeats Against Software Patents Are Getting Louder

There is a great article by Timothy Lee, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, out today titled The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents.  Lee, an adjunct scholar at

August 31, 2009 · 3 min · Brad Feld

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