I Feel Powerful

My partner Ryan McIntyre has another thoughtful post up about the “power in the data center problem.”

September 28, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Good Morning Vietnam

I felt like that wonderful Robin Williams character when I fired up FeedDemon this morning and saw the flood of patent posts from Jim Moore and then bounced around Google

September 28, 2006 · 3 min · Brad Feld

IBM Takes Another Step To Changing The Patent Process

As I’ve written before, I’m a huge critic of the existing patent process, especially as it applies to software patents. Today, the NY Times has an article up describing how

September 26, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

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