iPhone Application Development

Stanford has put all the course material for CS 193P – iPhone Application Programming up on the web.  If you are developing an iPhone app, or considering it, the course

October 31, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Bye Bye Business Method Patents

While it’s not over yet as the Supreme Court might weight in, the Federal Court Kills Patents on Business Methods.  I haven’t read things carefully yet (I’ll leave that for

October 31, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Encourage The FCC To Improve the Internet

If you’d like to do something political that has nothing to do with the upcoming elections, read through Tom Evslin’s post Act Now for Better Internet Access.   Then go sign

October 26, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

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