Jewish Mothers

I love my mother – she’s the best mother I’ve ever had. One of her most endearing traits is that she is a jewish mother. If you don’t know what

June 10, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Great Software Patent Debate

Timothy Lee of the Cato Institute has an outstanding Op-Ed in the New York Times today titled A Patent Lie. He makes an assertion that I strongly share: “But don’t

June 10, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Reinacker Speaks – NewsGator Syndication Services

Greg Reinacker – NewsGator’s founder/CTO – has a post up describing in detail how he thinks about the NewsGator Syndication Services line of products. This part of NewsGator&rs

June 8, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Gates' Excellent Commencement Speech at Harvard

Bill Gates gave the commencement speech at Harvard today. He also received an honorary degree, finally making him a college graduate. His speech is fantastic and worth reading. His c

June 7, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Are You A Geek?

Via a member of my fraternity (ADP) at MIT, I discovered the geek test v.3.1. I scored 32.34714% rating me a “total geek.” Yes – this was sent to me via

June 7, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Video – Week #1

Do you want to hear me blather on about the Implicit Web? Or hear Stan James of Lijit talk about how he ended up in Boulder. Or watch David Cohen

June 4, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I've Been Travelling Too Much

I have a superb packing algorithm. I can pack my magic blue bag (think “Felix the Cat’s bag”) with seven days worth of clothes in under five minutes. This used

June 2, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Effective Email Communication and Punctuation

Sometimes you’ve got to read between the lines in emails – this classic from Ze Frank is worth watching. (Thanks Will.)

June 1, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Acquires FeedBurner

Today, FeedBurner announced that they had been acquired by Google and Google announced that they had acquired FeedBurner. There’s a nice symmetry to that. I’m burning with glee

June 1, 2007 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Computer Should Be Doing the Work for Us

Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, sent me a beautiful demo from TED2007 by Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Photosynth. In addition to being graphically

May 30, 2007 · 1 min · Brad Feld