User Agents

I woke up this morning thinking about User Agents (ok – I was also thinking about Naomi Watts and Sean Penn who were amazing in 21 Grams.) A commenter on

November 26, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

del.icio.us Tags – The First Derivative of What I'm Thinking About

I was in an Oxlo board meeting recently and Todd Vernon (Raindance CTO who is on the Oxlo board) said “I’ve subscribed to your del.icio.us tag feed – I like it

November 25, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Personalized Feeds

As an investor in a number of companies that do stuff with RSS (NewsGator, FeedBurner, Technorati, and Judy’s Book) and fan and active user of others (e.g. del.icio.us, FeedBlitz, SixApart)

November 25, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Ringtones By Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram has accomplished some remarkable things in his life, including creating Mathematica, a very successful private company called Wolfram Research, a set of amazing mathematics web sites i

November 24, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Trend Spotter

Wired Magazine has a great article this month on Tim O’Reilly. The first time I heard Tim’s name was in 1994 at NetGenesis when GNN appeared on the scene. I

November 16, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Linux is Not Windows

Dave Jilk passed on this article by Dominic Humphries explaining why Linux is Not Windows. The analogy that starts off the article is perfect: Linux <=> Windows is like Motorbikes

November 13, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Google User Interface

A few weeks ago I wrote about web design mistakes. One of the things that stuck in my head was that Google (and now Microsoft and Yahoo) have trained us

November 3, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

RSS is Plumbing

Steve Rubel has a good article up that answers the question “What is enterprise RSS?” There was a point in time where people talked about this thing called “SMTP.”

November 2, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Interview in Milestone Quarterly

The Milestone Group just published an interview with me in their quarterly newsletter. I answer questions such as: Am I long or short on Google? Will 2006 be the year

October 26, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Verizon BroadbandAccess Wireless Service

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my Verizon BroadbandAccess Wireless Service (EVDO)? As I sit here in Boston’s South Station waiting for the late night train to New

October 26, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld