Research and Development
Is it just us, or is there really a sea change in the nature of research and development.For my entire career in information technology, research was all about cracking very hard technical problems. How to move more bits from here [...] Read more
Why We Invested in FeedBurner
Last October, I wrote a post called “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” in which I told the following story:Once upon a time, we had a very early stage company in our sights.We met the Company shortly after it was [...] Read more
Feedburner
Union Square Ventures closed an investment in Feedburner today.We are thrilled to be an investor in this great company which has been leading the way in RSS feed management and monetization services for the past three years. We have been [...] Read more
Mathematics – How much is enough
I did not study a lot of science in high school so this reference to mathematics is likely to be my last effort to come up with a model from high school science that sheds light on the evolution of [...] Read more
Web 2.0 is an Oxymoron
I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting.It was a fun panel, featuring Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball (now part of Google), Josh Schachter from [...] Read more
Physics – The Second Law of Thermodynamics
A week ago I stretched my rudimentary knowledge of high school biology to come up with an analogy that, for me, shed some light on web services. Today, I am going to try an analogy from physics which I know [...] Read more