Agile Is Mostly Common Sense

Over the past two years, I’ve learned a lot about Agile development methodologies as a result of my investment in Rally Software. Today – Tim Wolters – CTO of Collective

August 19, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Death of The Killer App

As long as I can remember, a phrase that I have heard regularly is “what is the next killer app?” Entrepreneurs and VCs are always looking for the next killer app

August 15, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Dan Bricklin on Patenting Visicalc

Dan Bricklin has a thoughtful post on software patents as a follow up to a bunch of stuff that’s gone around the web the past few weeks since the NY Times

August 14, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Supervillians Run Linux

Chris asked Ross this morning if he could switch us all to Linux so we could be supervillians. Even Amy laughed when she saw it.

August 13, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Judy's Book + Google Maps

My long time friend Andy Sack’s company Judy’s Book has just released “Judy’s Books Maps” (they claim to have had countless focus groups and thousands of hours of brainst

August 10, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Vonage – The 1995 Cell Phone

In an effort to experience VoIP at its fullest, I got rid of my landline in Alaska and have been using Vonage all summer. Today – it dawned on me

August 5, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Top 2004 Online Retailers

Last night, after we’d exhausted some other scintillating topic, Dave Jilk – who’s been visiting us this week – and I pondered who the top online retailers were last year

August 4, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

MP3's on Punch Cards, Bluetooth Car Hacks, and Jack Bauer

Some fun nerd facts for you on this gloomy Wednesday morning in Homer, Alaska (where is the fucking sun?) How many punch cards would it take to represent a 3–minute

August 3, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Maps – High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator

I’m fascinated with a Google Maps mashups (I prefer “mashup” to “hack”). Having recently read 109 East Palace (yet another very good history of the Manhattan P

August 1, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

State Government Stupidity Concerning Email

A few days ago, I wrote some thoughts on the war on spam. Today Matt Blumberg has an insightful post up on what’s going on in several state legislatures concerning

July 28, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld