The Dark Matter of the Blogosphere

I’ve been fascinated with blog comments since I started blogging. The “blogging is a conversion meme” is a long standing one and the notion of engaging a real community around

July 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Beware Religious Platform Battles

If you are obsessed with Facebook, you should be reading Read/WriteWeb this week (as they’ve declared it the week of Facebook.) The first post is Facebook Week: Analyzing The Facebook

July 16, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Wooden Mirror

My partner Ryan pointed me to Daniel Rozin’s Wooden Mirror. It’s a delightful example of humans + technology + art. All of this stuff is starting to “Blur” together

July 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Another Rotten Apple

Andy Sack just gave up on his switch from Microsoft to Apple. I’ve tried to make this switch twice over the past few years (once randomly, once on the eve

July 15, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It's The API, Stupid

Wesabe just came out with an API. If you aren’t familiar with Wesabe, it’s a new investment by my friends at Union Square Ventures – Brad Burnham describes why they

July 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Ok – It's Called Enterprise 2.0

I hate the 2.0 label. Hate it hate it hate it. Hate it. However, I’ve heard the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” 3,625 times in the past two weeks. All my enterprise [

July 12, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A CPM Here, A CPM There … Now You Are Talking Real Money

Today’s Techmeme meme is based on Facebook advertising brings poor results. Most of the posts are talking about the rotten clickthrough rate (0.04%) on Facebook. Some of the posts –

July 12, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Detailed Analysis of NetSuite S-1 Filing

If you follow SaaS software and are interested in getting a great summary of the NetSuite S-1 filing without reading it, Jason Wood has a nice dissection of it at

July 6, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Another View on Vertical Social Networks

Once again, David Cohen has “encouraged” (euphamism for “hey Brad, c’mon and write that post already”) me to respond to his post titled Big or Bullshit – Vertical S

July 5, 2007 · 3 min · Brad Feld

iBrick

I officially have an iBrick (an iPhone that does not appear to be able to be activated by normal human means.) I’ve had an entertaining series of problems. I’m still

June 30, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld