This Looks Like An Official Declaration of War To Me

It appears that Google has finally officially declared war on Microsoft. I find this completely perplexing, as I’d think a more effective strategy would be to simply sidestep the whole

October 4, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Is Many A Special Case For One?

At dinner last night with Scott Moody (the founder of Throw – which was acquired by Excite in 1998), we began talking about the difference on the web between groups and

October 3, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Unbelievably Great Customer Support from Verizon Wireless

Most of the customer support stories I read on the web are about lousy experiences. Tonight – I had an awesome one. After dinner, Amy treated me to 30 minutes

October 1, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Wanna Do A Deal With Google?

I spent some time at lunch recently with Chris Sacca – one of the business development guys at Google. Chris just put a post up on his blog with hints

September 29, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Apple Hell

Jeff Jarvis – who has written extensively on his terrible customer experience in Dell Hell – doesn’t have a monopoly (nor does Dell) on stupid customer experience moves. Ryan M

September 28, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Firewalls for China?

As everyone is talking about China, it’s inevitable that security will creep (or leap) into the discussion. The 37th Parallel blog has a great article up by Scott Granneman with a

September 22, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Clearing Your Microsoft Outlook AutoComplete Cache

We just changed the configuration of our mail server and as a result my Outlook AutoComplete Cache was now wrong for a number of addresses, including all of our internal

September 22, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

2006 Will Be The Year of Microsoft

I’m often wrong (but never in doubt) and – after spending the day at PDC and an evening with a number of the project leads for various Vista technologies –

September 15, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

RSS and Security

As RSS becomes more popular, it’s inevitable that people will begin talking about security and companies will release “secure RSS related products.” Before the feeding frenzy o

September 11, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

WSFinder – Wiki for Web Services and Open APIs

I’ve written in the past about the importance of APIs in today’s “web application” world. Chris Law – an early employee of Tribe – has just created a Wik

September 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld