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
Technology
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
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
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
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
Time To Update All Those Copyright Notices
Welcome to 2007. You did make that copyright notice thing a variable or an include, didn’t you?
Why I'm Installing Vista on All My Computers
I ran an interesting experiment the past 30 days. I simultaneously used three different desktop configurations – my traditional Windows XP three monitor setup (at home and work), Mac OS [&
I'm Really Tired of Alexa
Om Malik has a great post up titled Alexa can be injurious to your wealth that describes a number of flaws with Alexa as a ranking of a web-based service.
More on Intelligence Amplification
My partner Ryan McIntyre has a nice, detailed follow up post on Intelligence Amplification. Stan James – founder and CTO of Lijit (one of our investments in the Intelligence Amplification
What Is Obvious?
Our friendly neighborhood Supreme Court is having some fun discussing the current legal definition of “patent obviousness.” It sounds like there were some entertaining snippets in th