Hi – I am a Stupid Patent

A day doesn’t go by without yet another stupid software patent appearing.  At least people are writing about them.  Amazon (via A9.com) just received a patent for Error processing meth

January 30, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Barking at SEO

If you don’t know what SERP is, don’t bother reading on.  But – if you care about where your site shows up in the search engines, take a look at

January 30, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Sharing A Short Attention Span

Ok – I’m stretching for a clever title for this post.  Several weeks ago I saw two great technical posts from friends.  The first is from Stan James – the

January 18, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Mac World Was So Yesterday

Oracle buys BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Sun Microsoft Systems buys MySQL for about $1.0 billion. Gregory Reyes – Brocade’s ex-CEO – gets 21 months in jail for backdating stock

January 16, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Friend Hierarchy

Now that I use 267 different social networking tools, I’m confused.  I’ve got so many different "friends", but I don’t know how to differentiate between them. My &quot

January 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Fights Back on Software Patents

I’m really pleased that Google has taken an aggressive position in fighting back against the Jarg search patent.  The Jarg patent is another absurd one and Google is on now

January 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

No One Really Wants To Use A Mouse, Keyboard, or a Joystick Anymore

How about a portable turntable scratch pad for playing Guitar Hero. Or even better – using a real guitar to play something that looks like Guitar Hero. Nah – I

January 7, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Gutting a Patent Claim by Claim

Tom Evslin picked up my challenge to help invalidate the proposed patent in my post Have You Ever Coded a Progress Bar?  Tom has prior art going back to 1987

December 31, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Outsource Your Manual Stuff

I didn’t listen to any voicemail in 2007.  I got plenty of them – but I didn’t listen to any of them.  Yet I got 100% of the information that

December 31, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Finally – Nortel and Vonage Settle Quickly

It appears that Vonage had something in its patent portfolio that Nortel didn’t like.  Several weeks ago Nortel sued Vonage for patent infringement.  They just settled for a limited cr

December 31, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld