The Deathstar Rises

I sat stunned this morning as I read that AT&T (the “new name” for SBC) is going to spend $1 billion on a branding campaign. For that? Now, I’m well

December 29, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Web's Unintended Consequences

When I saw my first demo of the World Wide Web at an MIT Athena Cluster in 1994 (it was Freshman Fishwrap – among other things – running on a

December 28, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Implementing the Google Map API

When I woke up this morning, I decided that I wanted to see how hard it was to implement a map using the Google Map API (god only knows why I

December 27, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Open Source or Closed Source?

Alan Shimel has a good post on a recent release of a formerly “open source” product called Nessus. With the version 3.0 release, the authors abandoned the GPL license and

December 18, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Outlook Map Display

In the category of “duh – that’s been there for a while”, I got a nice tip from TheOfficeWeblog about Outlook’s ability to automatically generate a map from an address.&n

December 18, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Shared Nothing Architecture

On the heals of TypePad’s 18 hour outage this week, there’s been (and will be) a lot of continued discussion about how to build scalable and reliable online / web-based

December 18, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Egopedia

I’ve received a variety of entertaining (and thoughtful) presents for my 40th birthday. Earlier this week, Dave Jilk gave me another one – my own Wikipedia entry. I suppose eve

December 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Signal to Noise Ratio Feels Out of Whack To Me

I monitor around 400 blogs and try to stay on top of them daily (I use FeedDemon and NewsGator Online and have developed an awesome personal algorithm for getting through

December 10, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

It Ought To Be Easier

Lyle Lovett’s “It Ought To Be Easier” was the 195th song on Amy’s iPod Shuffle playlist that I manually recreated for her this morning. Someone at Apple on the iPod

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Web Is Not A Normalized Relational Database

I had lunch with Stan James on Friday at Pasquini’s Pizzeria. Stan is the creator of Outfoxed and was introduced to me by Seth Goldstein who is one of the

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld