What Was Your First Computer?

Last Thursday when I was in New York I swung by Steve Rubel’s office and hung out with him for an hour. We caught up on a bunch of stuff but

July 23, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Google Apps Active Directory and LDAP Sync

We had a TechStars picnic at my house yesterday afternoon. Given that there were 30+ software nerds hanging around, a little teeny tiny bit of the conversation was about computer

July 23, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Patent Reform Progress – Baby Steps

I am anti-software patents. Lest you think I’m simply a reactionary, I’ve been thinking about this since 1987 when I started studying sources of innovation under Eric von Hippel at [

July 23, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

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