Disqus - Friends of mikeabundo

Re: Boulder Software Club: Blogging and RSS

bfeld — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0000

I realized I hadn't provided the time.

Re: Spyware is officially out of control

bfeld — Wed, 19 May 2004 20:52:47 -0000

It appears that Overstock.com is about to be the first company to take legal action under Utah's new anti-spyware law.

Re: Beyond Clicks, Opens & Bounces

bfeld — Fri, 28 May 2004 00:00:37 -0000

Very few have subscribed by email (I've got five subscriptions, not including myself). I've been using Bloglet which seems to be pretty effective and is easy to implement. I suspect that while services like Bloglet are beginning to appear, it's a lot more compelling to get RSS feeds by email from within Outlook using Newsgator (which is what I use).

Re: Ripped off at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans

bfeld — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:47:28 -0000

I had forgotten that the Marriott International owns Ritz-Carlton. From the Ritz-Carlton website,
In 1995, Marriott International purchased 49 percent interest in Ritz-Carlton. Three years later, that interest was increased to 99 percent.

Re: RSS on Mobius Venture Capital Site

bfeld — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:31:29 -0000

Eh - I thought it was a reasonable push back (and I use "bitch slapped" in a non-sexist, playful way (per the trackback to this post that seemed to indicate the reader thought I was being sexist with my language) to indicate "abrupt push back from a friend that I didn't resist." I love colloquialisms - they are so much more fun (although my wife Amy just told me she wasn't happy with my particular choice of words in this case.

I was simply posting press releases. In hindsight - and now that I've been blogging for a while - this is BORING. In an ideal world, every company would have an RSS feed for their press releases, so one could simply subscribe if they are interested. This is what we've tried to do with our website.

Re: The Breeders Cup

bfeld — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:39:46 -0000

I didn't know that - I guess I like horse racing better (although NAHOR - the National Association of Horse Racers - probably supports Bush also since I'm sure there is some sort of tax deduction for owning a horse.)

Re: RSS:Blog = HTTP:Web = SMTP:Email

bfeld — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:04:45 -0000

Indeed it is. Indeed it is.

Re: Sales Tools – Heat Map Example

bfeld — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:23:19 -0000

Blue: All existing customers.
Green: Active sales activity.
Yellow: No active sales activity.
Red: Company told us to go away.

Re: Happy Birthday to Q!

bfeld — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:05:42 -0000

Thank god he takes after Katharine.

Re: Early Stage Marketing and Sales – The “Why” vs. the “What”

bfeld — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:59:48 -0000

So - this unquestionably goes is the "doh" (in the voice of Homer Simpson) category. Jason - you are unarguably correct - there's no simple way to do it. Salesforce.com has mastered this, so there's no excuse for making this difficult and mysterious, especially for a hosted product like Rally's. Look for this to improve soon (although - unfortunately - with many of these things - you lose the prospect if you start off by making it hard on them.)

FYI - if you are serious about getting started - sign up to Test Drive the Rally Sample Project - that'll at least get you started.

Re: Board of Directors

bfeld — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:50:28 -0000

Weird. I took the feeds out of ALL posts except the "Books" category. You shouldn't be getting an add. I just took a look and saw it in the last few "entrepreneurship" category posts.

Don't unsubscribe yet - I'll try to make it go away for all categories except books.

Re: Feedburner Publicize

bfeld — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:41:27 -0000

It's the number of subscribers in the past 24 hours.

Re: Outlawed Words: SOME and OK

bfeld — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:00:37 -0000

The first major customer application that I ever wrote is still in production today. I wrote a dental billing and practice management system for Bellflower Dental Group (a very large practice - over 30,000 patients at the time) in DataFlex 2.x and put it into production in 1986. Dave Jilk did a year 2000 update in 1999 (yes - there were tons of Y2K issues) and - as far as I know - it's still running. I also know of a few Clarion-based systems we wrote in the early 1990's that are still in production today. Some old code just never dies.

Re: What To Do In Hotchkiss Colorado

bfeld — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:28:06 -0000

My mother's comments follow. I told her to post them but she said "I don't do blogs." Man - this is better than therapy.

My, how you sound like a whinney little Jewish boy whose parents have to tell him Christmas is their holiday and Chanukah is ours. I have some suggestions for you.

1. Connect with your Jewish heritage and celebrate with your Jewish family and friends.

2. Think of Christmas as a religious holiday, you know, the birth of Christ. This may help you ignore the consumer laden overtones of the day and be cheerful around those who enjoy it all.

3. Get over it. You're almost middle aged.

The above is predicated on the assumption that you were serious.

Re: RSS:Blog = HTTP:Web = SMTP:Email

bfeld — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:05:23 -0000

Technorati is a "search engine." The last time I checked, there were a number of very successful companies that have build real businesses around search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo). The primary business model is - surprise - revenue from advertising. Interestingly, in the blog world, there are a number of secondary business models based on the nature of the data being indexed - but all are "pay for content" related.

Re: PeopleSoft Testing and Oracle Migration

bfeld — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:33:33 -0000

I'm not worried about this dynamic because I think it's inaccurate. There are a number of very successful ISV's who have built meaningful businesses around Oracle's platform. While Oracle will want the services revenue from upgrades, this impacts consulting firms much more then it impacts ISVs. In addition, PeopleSoft already had a huge internal consulting practice, so any third party vendors that were consulting or integration oriented were already suffering from the classic channel conflict that existed between PeopleSoft and their third party consultants.

The bigger concern is whether Oracle will ultimately developing comparable products to Newmerix - making Newmerix position in the market obsolete. PeopleSoft already had "testing products", but they are so inferior to Newmerix's as to not be competitive. While a major platform ISV such as Oracle can always choose to build products that cause their ISVs' products to be obsolete, the opportunity (and challenge) for the ISV is to continue to maintain relevance by innovating in areas that are using to the ISV. This is what Newmerix has been doing and - IMHO - has a very defensible technological (and architectural) base on which to build on.

Re: It’s Siebel, not Seibel

bfeld — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:21:19 -0000

Oooh - that was mean. I'm a pretty good speller. I just have trouble with then and than (and things like that.)

Re: Book Review: A Million Little Pieces

bfeld — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:57:13 -0000

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are two of my favorite books. That said, I haven't spent a lot of time with Rand or Objectivism beyond these books - I tried at one point in my 20's and just didn't get into it. I selffishly took what I wanted and developed the Philosophy of Brad instead.

Re: Term Sheet: Pay-to-Play

bfeld — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:31:40 -0000

Sorry about that. There is a Term Sheet category on the right side of blog and I'll start backlinking in the future.

Re: Airplane Relief – Bose QuietComfort 2 Headphones

bfeld — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:04:58 -0000

I just checked (4/2/05) and it doesn't look like you can buy the Bose QuietComfort 2's on Amazon right now for some reason.

Re: Judy’s Book and Integration with Movable Type

bfeld — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:51:19 -0000

I get the data via simple Javascript command.

For Posts, I used: script type="text/javascript" src="http://open.judysbook.com/b...">

For Friends I used: script type="text/javascript" src="http://open.judysbook.com/b...">

pts is "# posts to show", fts is "# friends to show", val is "view link" on / off, sfl is "show friend link on / off", spl is "show post link on / off", and images is "images on / off"

Re: Colorado In April

bfeld — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:17:51 -0000

Re: Road - you have to go through a state park to get to my house, so they maintain that road (although it's too dangerous to plow in the middle of the storm and when there is 30 inches they often end up with a hosed up plow) and we maintain / plow our road (no small task). We've been snowbound twice and we are still too boneheaded to get a generator (Amy refuses to get one for some reason). We keep talking about getting a snowmobile but figure in the worst case we can handle a two mile posthole hike through the park (damn - where did I put those snowshoes?)

Re: Colorado In April

bfeld — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:55:45 -0000

It's art. It's actually called "The Visitors" and there are 12 of them (it was my 39th birthday present from Amy.) The artist is a Boulder-based guy (amazing guy) named Jerry Wingren - http://www.wingrensculpture.com/studio.html or http://www.wingrensculpture.com/portfolio_visitors.html for more on The Visitors.

Re: Colorado In April

bfeld — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:17:38 -0000

I have a T1 line from Qwest. It's a long story - maybe I'll write it up sometime. I'm at 6500 ft.

Re: Internet Axis of Evil

bfeld — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:18:16 -0000

Unfortunate. Of course, the ad I got in mine was "Poor Credit?" ERRRGGGG. I spelled "trilled" the way grandpa Jack did (see prior post).

Sorry about the ads - it's part of my global experiment to see if they get better over time. Just ignore them - I know you are capable of doing that .