October 31, 2008
iPhone Application Development
Stanford has put all the course material for CS 193P – iPhone Application Programming up on the web. If you are developing an iPhone app, or considering it, the course ...
Bye Bye Business Method Patents
While it’s not over yet as the Supreme Court might weight in, the Federal Court Kills Patents on Business Methods. I haven’t read things carefully yet (I’ll leave that for ...
October 30, 2008
The Hedge Fund Essays
All of the hedge fund (and some of the VC fund) statements I’ve been receiving the past few weeks have long essays in them. I categorize most of them as ...
Round Two of The VC (and Entrepreneur) Advice on the Downturn
VentureBeat had a Downturn RoundTable yesterday consisting of a panel of VCs and an panel of entrepreneurs giving their advice on what to do to whether to current economic crisis. ...
October 29, 2008
Anti-Charity
I was talking to Andrew Hyde over at the Boulder.me Job Fair and a few of the folks I ran into busted my chops (in a good way) about my ...
October 28, 2008
Chess, Clouds, Startups, and Other Things
If you thought the reason I haven’t been doing a Daily Reading post lately was because I didn’t feel like adding more to the endless stream of political noise, global ...
October 27, 2008
Andrew Sullivan on Blogging
I regularly get the "why do you blog" question. I also regularly get "thank you for blogging" notes (thank you for the thank you notes.)
I’m a fan on Andrew Sullivan ...
Declaring A Jihad on My Weight
With a nod to a line given to me from a recent television show that I enjoy, I’m declaring a jihad on my weight.
I’ve struggled with my weight for the ...
October 26, 2008
iPhone and Tasks
My iPhone 3G continues to delight me. For all of you naysayers out there (e.g. "eh – Feld’s Mac Fetish rears its head again – he’ll be done with it ...
Encourage Amy to Blog
I love it when my wife Amy blogs. She’s an amazing writer and has a much wider range of intellectual interests than me. I often refer to her as my ...
Encourage The FCC To Improve the Internet
If you’d like to do something political that has nothing to do with the upcoming elections, read through Tom Evslin’s post Act Now for Better Internet Access. Then go sign ...
October 25, 2008
It’s The Ride That Counts
I spent the past 10 days on the road in a bunch of different cities (New York, Bar Harbor, Boston, Westford, New York again, Tysons Corner, Alexandria, Owings Mills) doing ...
Loving Brightkite for the iPhone
One of the TechStars 2007 companies is Brightkite. Brightkite is a real time location-based social network. I travel a lot and have always wanted an easy way to broadcast where ...
Clouditude
A friend of mine has been going deep on the entire cloud computing ecosystem as he works through some ideas for a new company. He coined a term "clouditude" a ...
October 24, 2008
Running and My Professional Self
Yesterday, I got the following question via email: "I was wondering if you think running has had a long-term impact on your professional self? Does it help keep you focused ...