Gist for Gmail

Yesterday, Gist released their new Gist for Gmail Firefox plugin (the Chrome plugin will be out in two weeks).  As a long time Gist user and investor, I’ve been anxiously

November 18, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

New Email Newsletter on Work-Life Balance

While at the amazing Tahoe Tech Talk, I heard Dave Morin mention a new service called Letter.ly.  It’s a great example of brilliance through its simplicity. In my never ending

October 1, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Gmail Made Me Go To Bed Earlier Last Night

My week-long experiment with Gmail continues with my first big bump happening last night at around 9pm.  After sending a lot of emails (apparently 500) I received an error message

August 24, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

I'm Dead To Your Suggestion That X Is Dead

Ah – the joy of a meme.  Today’s meme is “The Web Is Dead.”  Whatever.  My favorite article about this in the past 24 hours is The Tragic Death of

August 18, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Magic of Email Conversations

In the mid 1990’s I used an email client that did a pretty good job of “threading conversations.”   The UI was kind of crummy, but it did some interesting

June 23, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Shifting to Twitter for Deal Evaluation

Over the past year the amount of emails I receive on a daily basis from entrepreneurs has reached a point where I can’t deal with it any more.  My partners

April 1, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Email Is Still The Best Login

After downloading Skype 4.2, I realized that I could now invite all of my Facebook friends who had Skype accounts to my Skype contact list.  So I did.  Unfortunately the

March 30, 2010 · 3 min · Brad Feld

100% Click Through Rate

I was thinking about how to drive CTR’s up via different mechanisms this morning when this email arrived in my inbox. I remembered talking about high CTR email response rates

March 30, 2010 · 1 min · Brad Feld

What Seems Like A Fundamental Flaw in Microsoft Outlook Social Connector

I’ve been obsessed with the notion of email as the ultimate social network for a while.  I wrote a post in 2007 titled Social Networks In Obvious Places that catalyzed me

February 17, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld