Fred Davis

Media guy, start-up junkie, gadfly, prognosticator.
@freddavis startup and technology guy (tucked in shirt optional) http://www.fred.io - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Yay Marc! Here's the link to the WSJ article about my pal Marc Benioff's amazing debut as a major philanthropist: http://online.wsj.com/article....
Hooray for Marc Benioff! Known Marc for almost 25 years. Great guy & here's the proof: he's donating $100M to UCSF childrens hospital!
The military should have intervened in the gulf oil spill a long time ago and dropped a small nuke down the hole to seal it for good.
Why does Adobe Acrobat suck so much? It crashes way more often than any other app I have, despite frequent updates that never fix it. Ugh.
@tomforemski Have fun in Brazil, my friend! Let's get together when you get back and make some media!
My old company, Ziff-Davis, just got sold for the 6th time! Or whats left of it anyway. At least I was there in the truly good old days...
Looking forward to news from the Apple developers shindig tomorrow.
Everybody laughed when I said Apple would sell 10 million iPad's the first year... so far they've sold 2 million!
Back2back Dept. ... First Gary Coleman and now Dennis Hopper http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010... #dead.
Here's a cool way to get funding! http://www.kickstarter.com/ ...so far the Diaspora project has raised $147,000 or 1467% of their goal!
@joespector "How do you define Web 3.0? Why is it different from Web 2.0?" Web 3.0 is the "semantic web" with understanding of concepts.
Fred michael who did the video interview of you? RT @ubercool Don't forget that I'll speaking at the Resort Summit...http://www.resortsummit.com.
Since Grabbit works with Drupal, you can deeply integrate it with #buzzr websites, or any other Drupal site. #drupalcon.
At #DrupalCon yesterday helping out pals at #Buzzr the cool new drupal website construction set from #Lullabot. Grabbit got some kudos too!
#chirp generating lots of TPM (tweets per minute)... lots of resonating but lots of noise, too.
Hilarious Mike Arrington video! http://techcrunch.com/2010....
@chrisheuer good luck, Chris! I feel for you... let me know if there's anything I can do for you!
Google TV: a new IPTV set-top box from Google, Sony, and Intel puts Android software (and YouTube) on your TV. http://www.reuters.com/article....
Windows XP still rules, big time: 4X as many users as Vista, 7X more than Windows 7, 15X more than MacOS http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operati....
New hard disks trip on Windows XP as sector size goes from 512 to 4096 bytes http://arstechnica.com/microso... but XP still top OS by far http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....
James Cameron must be feeling the hurt... ouch! Is he the new Spielberg? Can all the people who actually see movies be wrong?
Twist their arms until they Yelp! More on Yelp's business ethics, or maybe lack thereof... http://techcrunch.com/2010....
Wow! Awesome Rube Goldberg Machine from Synn Labs in OK Go's music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch....
Been immersed in a sea of TLAs like RDF & OWL (which should really be WOL. WTF?) What does it mean? Well, that's a question of semantics ;).
Wow, not only did Google acquire photo-editing site Picnik, it looks like they've redesigned the search page, which had almost no ads on it.
Facebook patents newsfeeds?!? Good grief! Another bogus innovation-stifling patent. How long until it's overturned? http://www.techweb.com/article....
It's nap time! Afternoon naps make you smarter... now I know why I get drowsy around 3pm ;-) http://www.businessweek.com/lifesty....
Good news! Google's not making us stupid, no matter how stupid Google gets (like taking a buzz in my email) http://www.appscout.com/2010....