Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to 2007. You did make that copyright notice thing a variable or an include, didn’t you?

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 [&

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.

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