Clouditude

A friend of mine has been going deep on the entire cloud computing ecosystem as he works through some ideas for a new company.  He coined a term "clouditude" a

October 25, 2008 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Social Computing Best Practices

If you are interested in Social Computing in the Enterprise, NewsGator has just put up a Social Computing Best Practices & Resources on their web site.  In addition to a bunch

October 9, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

My First 15 Minutes With My New Zune

The tschotske at the Microsoft Venture Capital Summit was a spiffy blue Zune.  I managed to figure out how to open the box – it’s pretty cute.  I followed the

September 25, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Minor Behavior Modifications

As I live my Digital Life theme, I realize that sometimes I need to take a step back to take a step forward.  This happened today when I was in

September 25, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Bury The Name Silicon Alley

Fred Wilson gave a phenomenal speech at Web 2.0 Expo NY titled New York’s Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent.  It’s about 25 minutes long –

September 25, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Z Axis

As I was hiking up Quandary Peak on Saturday, I regularly looked at my Garmin 305.  I had four data fields displaying – distance, total time, heart rate, and lap

September 10, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Cycles

Now that I’m 42 years old, I’ve been around the computer industry long enough to understand that it runs in cycles.  I don’t know how long the cycles are going

September 5, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Happened To The 4GL?

On today, this day of endless blogging / talking (and hopefully downloading) of Google Chrome, I thought I’d go retro and write about my renewed hunt for the 4GL.  But

September 2, 2008 · 5 min · Brad Feld

My Relationship With Apple Is Like My Relationship With The Republican Party

Scott Converse has a wonderful post up titled Is Apple a Republican?  After reading it, I pondered my relationship with Apple and realized that it is just like my relationship

August 28, 2008 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Om, That's Actually "You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding Me"

Om Malik discovered that Microsoft has received a new and exciting patent on "page up and page down."  It was issued on 8/19/08.  I just read the summary and this

August 28, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld