Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2011

When I extend this to my overall information consumption pattern, I realize that a lot of signal is once again getting lost in the noise, especially around the RSS feeds that I try to read regularly versus the endless amount of web media that is now distributed by RSS.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2011

Gnip is currently delivering over a half billion social activities per day to almost all the top social media monitoring firms. This is a big win for ops managers who have multiple environments to manage for their various release cycles and for large enterprises with systems distributed across data centers all over the world.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

This dynamic has been reported thousands of times so I don’t need to go through it again, but we don’t have to look back very far to hear the drum beat from the media, LPs, and everyone else about how “VC is dead.” ” And if you’re curious, it wasn’t too long ago that Silicon Valley was also dying.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2015

I think the fundamental thing that is changing is the distribution of written information. Sure, the book is competing with a lot of other media types, but reading (and writing) seems to persist quite successfully. This is nothing new – it’s been going on since the Egyptians created the writing systems 4,500 years ago.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

Triggit is one of a group of recently emerging companies called demand side platforms (DSP ) that provide technology to advertisers enabling them to buy display media across millions of websites. If you are the sort of engineer that gets excited by this type of scale and latency then Triggit is hiring. Bonus points if there are copies of W.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

In particular, some media and naysayers are emphasizing the wrong lessons to be learned from this incident. All these issues become apparent when you need to upgrade O/S versions or change to a new O/S distribution. Wrong lesson #1: The infrastructure cloud is either not ready for prime time, or never will be.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2010

We invested in BigDoor earlier this year as part of our Distribution theme. If you are reading this on my website you’ll see a new bar popup at the bottom of your browser. It’s the BigDoor MiniBar. If you are a regular reader of Feld Thoughts, check in and join the community.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2012

And, if you look at some of the successful companies we have had from our previous investing at Mobius Venture Capital, you’d see market leaders like Postini, Return Path, FeedBurner, Rally, Stratify, NewsGator, and Sling Media. Change the customer, change a product focus, change the distribution channel, or change the partner dynamic.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Virgin Media Accelerator (London). Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel).

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