SharePoint Magic

Every now and then I stumble upon a piece of software that – after a few months of using it – I wonder how I ever lived without it. My

April 9, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Growth of Lucene

All of a sudden I’m seeing Lucene (and Nutch and Solr) being adopted by a bunch of my companies. While several have been using it for a while, it’s spreading

April 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Good Overview of TechStars

The Boulder County Business Reporter has a good summary of TechStars, synthesizing some of the stuff we are trying to do. The application deadline is coming up (3/31/07) – there

March 17, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

YAWP – Yet Another Widget Post

While the SXSW crowd is a-twitter, I’m still thinking about the range of private emails I’ve gotten about my widget post. While some of the comments were assertions that I&rsquo

March 15, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Looking for Web-based Political News Infrastructure

As you may know, Denver is hosting the 2008 Democratic Convention. I recently met with a major media company that is looking to do a specialized political information site built

March 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Empirical Evidence of Why Software Patents Are Bad (or Good) – Part 3

Jason is getting riled up about patents over on AsktheVC. I figured it’d be a good time to finish up the set of posts from John Funk suggesting an empirical

March 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Empirical Evidence of Why Software Patents Are Bad (or Good) – Part 2

In January, I posted Part 1 of an empirical approach to determining whether software patents are bad (or good). The essay was sent to me by John Funk, founder of

March 11, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Learning About RSS

Fred Wilson pointed me (us) to a video from his friend John Mahoney (CTO / co-founder of Instant Information – one of Fred’s portfolio companies) titled Practical RSS. It’s an

March 5, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Another View on Widgets

David Cohen has been appropriately nudging me to write my counterpoint to his Big of Bullshit: Widgets post. Lots has been said about widgets over the past six months, including the

March 4, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

What's Special About 2,147,483,649?

Nick Harris – the author of NewsGator’s Inbox product – has a detailed post up explaining the boundary condition he just ran into that forced him to do a quick

February 24, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld