Hi – I am a Stupid Patent

A day doesn’t go by without yet another stupid software patent appearing.  At least people are writing about them.  Amazon (via A9.com) just received a patent for Error processing meth

January 30, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Barking at SEO

If you don’t know what SERP is, don’t bother reading on.  But – if you care about where your site shows up in the search engines, take a look at

January 30, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Speaking of Dark Matter

Intense Debate just did another release and wrote up some of the features in their post Comment System Makeover.  They are on a regular release rhythm (about twice a month)

January 30, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Lijit Acquires BigSwerve

I love it when companies I’m an investor in use an acquisition strategy.  My good friend and long time co-investor Fred Wilson calls it a "venture rollup."  It’s very d

January 30, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How I Describe Alaska

When people find out that I’ve spent a lot of time in Alaska, they often ask me what it’s like.  After struggling to describe it in a simple way that

January 29, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

When Is The Release?

A company I have a small investment in has been struggling to get the most recent version of their software shipped.  A few weeks ago I ran into the CEO

January 27, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Who is That?

I have a handful of chronic grammar problems.  I received the following email yesterday: You seem like an intelligent guy.  But you insist on referring to your friends as, "that."&

January 27, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google News Copyright 2007

While I’m usually amused by the copyright gaffes I see, I laughed out loud when I saw that Google News was still Copyright 2007 (thanks to dschwartz for the tip.)

January 25, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The NewsGator Feed Archive Service

In his post titled Feed Archaeology Charlie Wood writes about the little known NewsGator Archive Service.  NewsGator has archived all the RSS feeds that its users have subscribed to since it

January 25, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I Got My Bathroom

If you know me, you know that I have a weird obsession with bathrooms.  It goes back a long time and definitely has some strange psychologic underpinnings that I’m sure

January 25, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld