Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

We made some of the early investments in companies built around RSS, including FeedBurner and NewsGator. RSS is a brilliant, and very durable, protocol. The original creators of the protocol had great vision, but the history and evolution of RSS were filled with challenges and controversy. SMTP has been very good to me.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When we invested in NewsGator in 2004 , RSS was just starting to emerge as a protocol and wire up much of the content on the web. At the time, it was impossible to anticipate how the web would evolve, as 2004 was a particularly low point in the evolution of venture capital and tech companies.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 13, 2010

Most mornings during the week – between 5am and 6:30am – I sit at my computer, catch up on email, read the stuff in my daily folder, go through my RSS feeds, and generally explore whatever I can on the web. Today’s amazing story was from The Tech, MIT’s newspaper (currently in Volume 130).

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This morning as I was doing my morning infoscan (Daily Web Sites, Twitter, RSS Feeds) I noticed a ton of stuff that I’d put in the noise category. So, while I let a little noise drift into my weekend, I’ll have spent the majority of it on signal (my P1).

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

After all these years, I’m still a heavy RSS user. I then went on an exploration of the web to understand the All Writs Act of 1789 which is what the FBI is using to justify an expansion of its authority. Every morning I click on my Daily folder in Chrome, open it up, and spend whatever time I feel like on it.

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