Patenting Patent Trolls

My partners and I were hanging out at lunch last week when Jason brought up the question of whether or not we could patent the business method of “creating or

March 15, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Zynga Texas Hold'em Poker on MySpace

Zynga has started launching its games on MySpace as part of the MySpace apps program.  Texas Hold’em Poker is up and is currently the #1 game AND the #1 application.

March 15, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Turning The Virtual Into The Physical

My partner Ryan just pointed me at FigurePrints.  If you are a World of Warcraft fanatic and want a physical instantiation of your favorite character, you are $99.95 (plus $14.95

March 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Defragging The Scary Place Called My Brain

My partner Ryan put up another post on the Foundry Group blog about our Implicit Web theme.  This is a theme that is particularly interesting and useful to me since

March 12, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Lindsay is Tearing it up at MobLogic.TV

I loved watching Lindsay Campbell on WallStrip.  I was bummed when she left to go do MobLogic.TV (although Julie Alexandria has stepped into her shoes quiet nicely.) I just watched

March 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

A Brief View Into Google's Internal Systems

On Google Blogoscoped, I ran into a post titled The Tools Google Uses Internally that is a short overview of a web seminar that walks through the tools a typical

March 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

HCI: Why 2033 Won't Be Like 2008

My partner Ryan wrote a long post on the Foundry Group blog about our interest in HCI titled Theme: Human Computer Interaction (HCI).  I believe that 25 years from now

March 12, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Congrats to My Friends at Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures just announced their new $156m fund – Union Square Ventures 2008.  My relationship with USV goes back to the mid-1990’s – well before USV was created.

March 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Another Software Practitioner Against Software Patents

Dave Roberts – the VP Strategy and Marketing at Vyatta – has written a solid post on Open Source Juicer that tears apart Steve Tobak’s CNet article titled The Patent

March 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Good Night, and Good Luck

Amy and I just finished watching Good Night, and Good Luck.  Wow! We both sort of knew the story of Ed Murrow taking on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy during McCarthy’s

March 9, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld