Unexpected Drivers of VoIP Adoption Growth

A long time friend, Shawn Broderick (first employee at my first company Feld Technologies and founder/CEO of Genetic Anomalies – acquired by THQ), has started up a new company called

March 25, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Automating My Compute Infrastructure

I woke up this morning thinking about Plaxo and my computer. I’m been thinking lately about the number of manual things that I do that my computer should take care

March 24, 2005 · 6 min · Brad Feld

Exponential Cost Curves and the Datacenter

Everyone knows that exponential curves don’t last forever. However, it’s remarkable to look at how they apply to specific cost curves – especially when they enable a radical tr

March 8, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Me Too Zone

I don’t learn from demos, conferences, or listening to other people present powerpoint presentations. I figured out a long time ago that I learn by reading, reflecting, experiencing, and p

February 16, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Google Maps

Wow. That’s about all I can say to the new Google Maps. I’ve been a long time Yahoo Maps user – but no more. My friend Bruce Wyman – the

February 8, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Googlezon's Epic

In 2014 the New York Times goes offline and becomes a print-only newsletter for the elite and the elderly. The press and the fourth estate as we know it today

February 6, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Computer Forensics – Does Your Used Hard Drive Still Have Data On It?

Tom Bartel – a long time colleague going back to the early days of Email Publishing in the mid-1990s and a hardcore privacy advocate currently working at Return Path – mentioned

January 29, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Ads in My Feeds

I’m playing around with ads in my feeds. I’ve enabled the Feedburner feature to insert Amazon ads in my book feeds and Overture “context based” ads in several (but not [&

January 17, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

PeopleSoft Employees Looking for Homes?

Jeff Nolan beat me to it with his “Attn PeopleSoft Employees” post, but he’s right on the mark. Given Oracle’s announcement that they are laying off 5,000 people today, a

January 14, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Software Executive's New Year's Resolutions

I can’t claim credit for this one – it was the header of an invite I just got to an upcoming ThinkEquity Software Research and Banking Team’s lunch. Their suggestions

January 11, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld