Joel Spolsky's First BillG Review

I love to read Joel Spolsky’s stuff – in addition to being a well known software developer, he’s an excellent writer and superb story teller. His ode to Bill Gates

June 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Windows Media Center And The Race For Your Digital Living Room

Ross – my “IT guy” – stole my HP z545 Media Center PC a while ago. I wasn’t really using it because there was too much “marital resistance” to this

June 13, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Huh, I Wasn't Paying Attention

Carolyn Curiel wrote an editorial yesterday in the NY Times titled “Let’s I.M. as You Read This.” A friend sent it to me with the suggestion that Carolyn might have

May 22, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

eBay's Minor Patent Victory

John Funk, a partner in Evergreen Innovation Partners, recently had a nice summary of the minor victory eBay just had in at the Supreme Court in the universe of defending

May 18, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Video Copyright and YouTube – I'm So Confused

After listening to I’m The Decider, I decided I wanted to go find something on the Stephen Colbert 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner Roast. So – I went to del.

May 13, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Web 2.0: The First 25,000 Users Are Irrelevant

For the past few months, whenever I talk to someone about a Web 2.0 application and hear that they already have “10,000 users”, I’ve been telling that them the first

May 12, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Norms-based IP and French Chefs

As you probably know from prior rants on this blog, I think the U.S. Patent System is completely screwed up, especially with regards to software patents. Since I’m in Paris

May 10, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Abolish Software Patents

I spoke on a panel last week at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program titled “Re-examining The Patent System.” My panel was the last one and came after a few hours

April 10, 2006 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Microsoft I-pod Pro 2005 XP

The difference between Microsoft and Apple is clearly explained in this 2 minute and 55 second video on Google.

March 20, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Top 16 Technology Acquirers

As part of my fantabulous week off, I caught up on some reading that had been sitting in my “to read” email folder. Nine months ago I posted a chart

March 17, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld