1-Click and Social Network Patents and a Jet Pack

Today, Amazon’s 1-Click patent was confirmed following a four year re-examination.  Amazon now has ownership of a highly controversial and very absurd patent which I hope will only be used

March 10, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The New Dork

These people are way cooler than I could ever be.  At least I have something to aspire to.

March 9, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193

I’ve been an Amazon Associate (Amazon’s affiliate program) for many years.  Today I got the following notice in my Amazon Associates account. and I woke up to the following email.

March 8, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Colorado Conservation Voters

One of the great things about living in Eldorado Springs, Colorado is interacting with nature on a daily basis. Protecting the environment has been a priority of mine for many

March 8, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Help Bring Google Fiber 1Gbps Network to Boulder

If you live in Boulder, it’s time to help bring the Google Fiber experiment to our awesome city.  A bunch of folks from all over Boulder are working on the

March 8, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Silicon Flatirons Conference: The Role of Place: Entrepreneurial Immigration, Iteration, and Innovation

On Thursday, March 18th (during CU Entrepreneurship Week) there is going to be a great Silicon Flatirons Conference on “The Role of Place”.  Brad Bernthal, who is chairing the conference,

March 7, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Are Apple’s Competitors Stealing Its Patented Inventions?

The Apple patent suit against HTC really riled up my friend Sawyer.  I wasn’t planning on posting another missive from him until next week, but I thought this was particularly

March 4, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld

The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented

I saw a tweet today that said “The doubly-linked list, a structure I studied thirty years ago, has recently been patented.”  After giggling at the absurdity of the idea, I

March 3, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Sawyer Opines on the Eastern District of Texas

My friend Sawyer is back with another post in his series of talking about software patent issues.  As I mentioned before, Sawyer is a real person named after our intrepid

March 3, 2010 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Software Beats Network In My Book

Remember rock / paper / scissors?  It’s a beautiful kids game that unlike tic-tac-toe regularly results in a winner.  Paper always beats rock.  Rock always beats scissors.  Scissor

March 2, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld