There Is A Major Software Innovation Wave Coming

I was at lunch last week with a friend and his business partner – my friend is an ex-technology VC who is now running an interesting blend of a public

September 24, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Tom Coates: Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

I just stumbled upon an outstanding presentation that Tom Coates (who writes plasticbag.org) gave last week at the Future of Web Apps conference. In addition to being excellent content, it&rsquo

September 23, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Metcalfe Speaks About V~N^2

After bitching earlier today about the current lack of critical thinking in the world today, Michael Hirshland of Polaris posted a long piece by his partner – Bob Metcalfe –

August 17, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Peer to Patent Project

I’m really excited to see the progress being made on The Peer to Patent Project. Beth Noveck is doing a great leadership job on getting serious software companies – including

August 13, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Blog Migration Hell – An Argument for SaaS

I’ve been in blog migration hell the past few days. Simple goal / painful execution. My blog runs on Movable Type 3.2 on a dedicated server (that happens to be six yea

August 4, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Focusing on the Wrong Thing

I saw the post A Thousand Hall Monitors from Yahoo this morning and immediately thought “why is YPN focusing on the wrong thing?” YPN (Yahoo Publisher Network) is way behind

August 1, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

John Galt's Law (of social networks)

Niel Robertson made a brilliant discovery today that he has named “John Galt’s Law.” The brilliant discovery was the Atlas Shrugged Dating Site – the law that emerged is

August 1, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Help Teaching Programming to a Teenager

I’m looking for ideas about different sources – online, books, and software – for helping a teenager learn how to program. I’m looking for both introductory / early progr

July 25, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Pay Attention to Dollars

If you liked my post titled The Three Constituencies, you should read Stan James followup post titled Attention to Dollars, And Other Exchanges. Stan is the founder of a cool

July 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Social Media Press Release

On page 16 of the July 3rd BusinessWeek, I noticed a short article in the Wired Life section titled “Teaching The Press Release A New Trick.” I was kind of

July 16, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld