Email Ain't Dead

I’m an email junkie. As a user, I not-so-fondly remember Compuserve, Novell MHS, and Pine. As an investor, I’ve been involved in Email Publishing (first email service bureau), MessageMedia

July 22, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I'm a Firefox Convert

I switched from Netscape to Internet Explorer when Windows 98 came out. Go figure. I’ve been stubbornly using IE and refused to even look at Mozilla / Firefox given that

July 15, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Software Durability and Societal Infrastructure Software

Dan Bricklin has a great essay on his site today titled Software That Lasts 200 Years. Dan is indubitably one of the world’s great software visionaries and his thoughts are

July 14, 2004 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Social Networking Blah Blah

We’ve been struggling with the explosion of social networking software and our perception of its usefulness for a while. David Hornik from August Capital has a priceless post on the

June 18, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Airplane Relief – Bose QuietComfort 2 Headphones

I’m on an airplane from Denver to Philadelphia blissfully listening to U2 on my Ipod using my new Bose QuietComfort 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones. These things are awesome. What

June 8, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Social Networking – I Still Don't Get It (Actually, I Do)

My partner Gary Rieschel was recently part of a Time Magazine roundtable that has shown up in an article titled Start-Up Your Engines! One of the topics that came up

June 5, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Spam is ruining the english language

I hate spam (who doesn’t). While I was running this morning, it dawned on me that spam was ruining the english language. “Huh – you ask?” I noticed a handful

June 4, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Spyware – Google weighs in

Google weighed in on the Spyware problem with a recent Google-blog on the issue. While it’s obviously self-serving based on Google’s core advertising business being competitive with the re

May 20, 2004 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Spyware is officially out of control

Ok – it’s been out of control for a while. Spam continues at epidemic proportions. Spim (IM Spam) is starting to emerge. Blam (Blog Spam) has exploded on the scene.

May 19, 2004 · 2 min · Brad Feld