The We Media Deal

Matt Blumberg has a good thoughtful post up on the notion of the “We Media Deal.” Matt spends a lot of time paying attention to the transition from “Old Media”

January 10, 2006 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Internet Is Broken

I still read a handful of print magazines (you gotta do something in the bathroom) – one my favorites is Technology Review (MIT’s Magazine). This month’s cover story was T

January 8, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Nacchio File

If you are interested in the story of how things play with Joe Nacchio’s criminal insider trading indictment I recommend you subscribe to the New West Networks Boulder feed as

January 2, 2006 · 2 min · Brad Feld

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