Smart and Interesting People in Reston

I’m in Reston, Virginia today at the The New New Internet Conference. Brian Williams – the CEO of Viget Labs – invited me to speak on a panel after spending some

November 1, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Leopards In The Morning

I spent part of my Friday night installing Leopard (also known as Mac OS X 10.5) on my Mac at home. The install went perfectly and I was generally pleased

October 29, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Undergraduate Viewpoints on Social Networks and Music

Following is a guest post by my partner Jason Mendelson. All of the thoughts and grammar errors are his. All of the formatting errors are mine. Every year I go

October 28, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

StubHub Seriously Has Its Act Together

Within 10 minutes of the end of the Red Sox game, I got the following email from StubHub. I’ve also received several emails in the past 24 hours from folks

October 21, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Big Brains and Multi-Touch Tables

I’ve got my share of friends who I think of as “big brains suspended in something” (where the typical instantiation is human form, but I often imagine them as something

October 21, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Relevance of Programming Languages

The subtitle of this post is “Wow – that boy can write.” If you found my post titled CTO vs. VP Engineering to be relevant to your universe, grab a

October 20, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Is The Best Name For It?

John Markoff suggests there is a looming battle of semantics between Web 3.0 and semantic web. Markoff summarizes by saying: “There is no easy consensus about how to define what

October 20, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

WYWIWYG vs. WYSIWYG

John Markoff has a fun little story about the origin of the phrase What-You-See-Is-What–You-Get in his article titled The Real History of WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG appeared on the scene 30+ years [

October 19, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Popfly is Neat

I’m not at Web 2.0 (nor do I want to be, although I have field agents there), but I am intrigued with Microsoft Popfly. I got a preview of it

October 18, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Evil Patent Things

This one has all the trappings of a potential debacle. Patent holding company targets Linux, files lawsuits against Red Hat and Novell. A patent dating back to 1987 describing a

October 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld