The Elusive Electronic Health Record

My dad (Stan Feld) has been talking about the electronic medical record for as long as I can remember (probably 30+ years.) As a kid, some of my early computer

February 19, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Metaverse is Coming Closer

Chris Anderson notes that The Innovation In Gaming Isn’t On The Screen. Having just benefited from the incredible success of Harmonix / Guitar Hero and and having become fascinated with [&

February 17, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Spam Spam Spam and Salesforce.com

I’ve been investing in Internet-related email stuff since 1995. I still remember when I got my first Internet email address (brad@id.wing.net) back in 1994 – shortly before I figured

February 13, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Open Source as a Dumping Group

Cisco just announced that they are open sourcing their network access control client (known as Cisco Trust Agent.) While on the surface it might seem like a generous move, Alan

February 9, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

We Are The Web

Great video on the essence of the web today from Michael Wesch – an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. I love the title – The Machine is

February 5, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The First Spam Email

I’ve been talking about, dealing with (in a “user-generated content context”), and thinking about spam a lot lately. As an investor in email related companies going back t

February 2, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

What Comes After Data?

Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures has an important and thought provoking post up titled What’s next? Whenever Brad writes something, I read it carefully – not only beca

January 29, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Human Computer Interaction

Over the holidays I read a magnificent book titled Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge. It’s an incredible collection of history combined with interviews from many of the great c

January 25, 2007 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Empirical Evidence of Why Software Patents Are Bad (or Good) – Part 1

I’ve written plenty about patents in the past, including a provocative post titled Abolish Software Patents. I was having a conversation with John Funk, a partner in Evergreen Innovation P

January 21, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

I'm Done With Snap Also – At Least For Now

When Snap Preview came out, I tossed it up on both Feld Thoughts and AsktheVC the day I noticed it. About a week ago it started to annoy me. While it

January 13, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld