If you aren’t at Defrag but want to follow along at home, there are two solid summaries up on the web.  Jeff Nolan (NewsGator): Live From Defrag! Dan Farber (ZDNet): Defragging identity, disclosures, and vendor relationship management There is also now a ClosedPrivate Facebook group.  Don’t bother joining. When I left for home at 8:30 […]

I’ve often said in the past that I’m not a conference guy so I recognize the irony of me helping organize a conference.  Eric Norlin did all the work and as we head into the home stretch of day one of Defrag, I’m blown away.  The quality of the attendees is stunning and the panels […]

Here’s the start of the conversation: Nerd 1: “Man – those Facebook ads really suck.  They are completely irrelevant.  And – well – embarrassing (e.g. almost porn.)”  I can’t imagine that they ever get clicked on (except the porn.)” Nerd 2: “Yeah, but it doesn’t matter.  It’s all CPM based so all that matters right […]

If you are paying attention to the Google OpenSocial thing, I have two great blog posts for you.  The first is for the business people and users that are trying to get their mind around the implications of OpenSocial to Facebook.  Don Dodge – who I’ve been friends with for a while – has an outstanding post […]

My investment in Shelfari has been a lot of fun. Josh Hug and his team are monsters – they get stuff done incredibly quickly. Plus I get to play with my books virtually. In addition to the Shelfari web service, they’ve got widgets up on Facebook and MySpace.  Now they’ve got and OpenSocial implementation as well. If […]

I have very smart friends.  They challenge me all the time.  One of them sent me the following email in response to my recent posts about the enterprise such as Get Ready For Selling To The Enterprise To Be A Big Deal Again. His question / comment was: What are the types of Web2.0 things […]

Following is a guest post by my partner Jason Mendelson.  All of the thoughts and grammar errors are his.  All of the formatting errors are mine. Every year I go back to the University of Michigan and spend a day teaching undergrads in the economics department.   I’ve been doing it for a few years now […]

If you go deep into the Feld Thoughts archive bin – way back to December 5, 2005 – I wrote a post called It’s The Trust, Stupid.  I still like that post, especially since it shows off my yoda like haiku writing non-ability. It’s the trust, stupidPay attention peopleRelevance it is “Attention” has continued to […]

I’ve been in a few parallel universes recently and am noticing it happening more and more.  I like parallel universes – it always smells like opportunity to me (plus I get to see how another “species” lives.) The parallel universes aren’t just technology-based, but they often inform how I think about stuff.  For example, my recent […]