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

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