Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2012

By now the blogosphere, twitterverse, and even mainstream media is abuzz with the absurd decision that Yahoo has made to sue Facebook over ten software patents with the assertion that Facebook’s entire business is based on Yahoo’s patented inventions. Like nuclear war, the only winning move is not to play.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well. My class, How To Light a Spark & Set Your Startup on Fire , is FREE for a limited time.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s newest book, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel , the protagonist Richard “Dodge” Forthrast uses the phrase “The Miasma ” to refer to the collection of technology that we commonly call “The Internet.” Q: How would you describe the current state of the internet? ” Yup.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. Fiber was the workhorse of the Internet — and nothing would alter its importance for as far as the eye could see. Our biggest customers are the wireless carriers and big content/Internet companies. “How can Brad help?”, ”, I pondered. and London.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2015

And, it is going to get really interesting in the next twenty years as humans become much more integrated with machines, as I’m completely ready to jack in to the Internet full-time. Sure, the book is competing with a lot of other media types, but reading (and writing) seems to persist quite successfully. Is the book really dead?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

Subsequently, Amy and I went on a binge the past few days of other media around this, including the movie Too Big To Fail (which is really about what happened in the fall of 2008) and Inside Job (which covers a broader time range, but focused on 2005 – 2008). The climax happens in 2008 and the denouement continues on until 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2010

While there was a tech / IT / Internet focus, there was plenty of cleantech, energy, bio, and broad business (non-tech) examples. Vinnie gave me a copy of a book to give away to one of you, demonstrating his command of social media marketing. Like any good polymath, Vinnie covered a lot of different ground.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Cecelia did this in 2002 which makes me think of the chaos that was in my head as I continued to unwind the mess that was my world from the collapse of the Internet bubble. This piece is called (#984) Kimono Series #6 and is a collagraph monotype sized 22×30”. It lists for $950 so with the 30% November 2010 discount it’s only $665.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

As most nerds know, Skynet gained self-awareness last week and decided as its first act to mess with Amazon Web Services, creating havoc for anyone that wanted to check-in on the Internet to their current physical location. In particular, some media and naysayers are emphasizing the wrong lessons to be learned from this incident.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

The investment was an obvious one for us as it fits squarely in our Adhesive theme given the deep relationships LinkSmart has with big media and web platforms as a provider of analytics and traffic management software. The Internet was founded on our ability to link between things. And the Internet grew. We clicked.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yesterday I read No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet. Akamai was an amazing pre-Internet bubble story. So the stacks of books that show up keep me company and I chomp through them whenever I need a break from everything else. ” This is not one of those books.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking. While I have no idea if this is feasible, the need for it seems to be increasing on a regular basis.

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