A historical collection of our writing.
Brad BurnhamIt has been three weeks since we hosted a group of technologists and philanthropists to talk about the impact of technology on philanthropy. I have now had a chance to go back through the transcript and to reflect on some of the themes that emerged from the conversation. I plan to post thoughts on a […] Read more
Brad BurnhamHere is the transcript for the Hacking Philanthropy Sessions event. It was a tough assignment for the transcriptionist. It was a large room where 40 high powered people were firing ideas back and forth without microphones. So despite a heroic effort, Yochai Benkler’s work on peer production came […] Read more
Brad BurnhamLet’s start with a definition. A service is open when anyone can take anything (code, data, etc) from that service and do anything they want with it, without permission from anyone. You might argue that is an extreme definition. I’d agree. But, anything less that that is not open. It is in some way […] Read more
Brad BurnhamThe wraps have started to come off of Bug Labs. Their site is now up and they have begun an active dialogue with enthusiasts that is shaping their design and their development priorities. We invested in Bug Labs because everything we have learned over the past ten years investing in and around the […] Read more
Brad BurnhamWe are pleased to announce today that AOL/Time Warner has agreed to buy our portfolio company TACODA. As is always the case with a company you have worked with for years, our excitement for the founders and management team about this great outcome is tempered by knowing that we will no longer have […] Read more
Brad BurnhamLast fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much happens. Writely (now Google) is still a functional […] Read more
