Adam Bosworth – KISS – Keep it Simple and Sloppy on the Internet

Adam Bosworth – one of the dudes behind a bunch of software products (including Borland Quattro, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer and BEA WebLogic application server), gave a brilli

November 21, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

RSS:Blog = HTTP:Web = SMTP:Email

I’ve been having this weird conversation lately. Last week, it happened again when I was being interviewed for an article titled Betting on Tools that Power Blogs in Businessweek Online.

November 11, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

How To Copyright Your PowerPoint Slides

I sat through about 20 PowerPoint presentations yesterday (feel free to snicker now.) As I was sitting in the audience, I noticed one thing that kept annoying me. A number

October 20, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

EDS Agility Alliance

EDS put a big stake in the ground by declaring friends and foes yesterday when they created the EDS Agilty Alliance. Foes: IBM and HP. Friends: Cisco, Dell, EMC, Microsoft,

October 19, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Firefox is the solution to Spyware

Several months ago I had a massive spyware problem. Today, I have none. The solution – I replaced Internet Explorer with Firefox. That’s it. We’re better (after cleaning up my

October 3, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Why Google Should Buy SCO

The famous “Do No Evil”, of course. Given some of the recent negative chatter on Google, I’ve been thinking of what bold move they could do that would cause most

September 8, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Is Free Web Conferencing Really Free?

Paul Berberian, chairman and founder of Raindance, wrote a provocative post today called Free Conferencing is Theft. Paul knows this business extremely well – I was an early investor

August 31, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Corporate Introduction to RSS

Last month Mediathink published a White Paper title RSS: The Next Big Thing On Line. It’s the best starter piece that I’ve seen so far for people – especially in

August 26, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

ChangeThis: How To Be a Boor manifesto

Seth Godin’s ChangeThis project has officially launched. ChangeThis – in their words “is trying to create a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like

August 16, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Where did all the fax machines go?

I was involved in a deal this week that finally closed at 4:40am PST on a Thursday morning. The lawyers were chasing down signatures until 3am PST. Amazingly, several of

July 31, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld