Fred Davis

Media guy, start-up junkie, gadfly, prognosticator.
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Figured Baby Einstein was a bad replacement for parental interaction. Surprise! It makes them dumb! Disney to refund! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin....
Having both Eduardo Danilo and Roger Black taking such a personal interest in Grabbit is an unheard of luxury for a start-up! Thanks guys!
The Danilo Black team has been doing a great job with the Grabbit site design, and it's very gratifying seeing it all coming together!
Our cool new Roger Black & Co. site design is much cleaner, so we're cleaning up all the pages on the site to match... lookin' mighty nice!
Just had a great meeting with @furrier of http://siliconangle.net/ver2/ to sneak him on Grabbit, & do some brainstorming. A real smart guy! Fun!
When it comes to Twitter and Facebook, Grabbit's philosophy is "embrace and extend." So, big hugs & hope you love the extensions!
Just as Yahoo starts showing signs of life, Bing zaps Google & ignites a new clash of the titans. If Google/Bing is Coke/Pesi, is Yahoo RC?
@kristiewells Happy Birthday! Big fun hanging out and having dinner with you, @chrisheuer & @lisapadilla the other day! See you again soon!
Trying to get things tied up before Web 2.0 Summit in SF tomorrow. Will be there with my pal, Peter Karnig, who is also the Grabbit CEO ;-).
New Grabbit re-design starting to take shape... cool!
Taps continue to play for print news:New York Times to lay off 100 in the newsroom. I'm worried about the impact on investigative reporting.
Yes, I am a quote-a-holic...has something to do with being a word nerd and armchair philosopher...& also need stuff to test Grabbit with :).
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." -- James Joyce.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein.
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken.
"Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Nietzsche.
Tell @SenatorReid: Don't let the Baucus bill kill the #publicoption. http://act.credoaction.com/campaig... Please sign and retweet. #credoaction.
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -- Winston Churchill.
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way" F. P. Adams.
Everybody's excited by the new Grabbit site design! World-class designers like Roger Black and Eduardo Danilo don't do many start-ups! Thx!
Can't wait to see it. When are the invites being sent? - Shea
Had a very interesting lunch with @lisapadilla and Eduardo Arriagada (@earriagada), Prof. of Journalism at the Catholic University in Chile.
With Hearst closing the Seattle P-I, and McGraw-Hill basically giving Business Week away, it's clear that print news, as we know it, is dead.
Business Weeks sells for "$2M - $5M"! Talk about a fire sale! Sounds like McGraw-Hill basically gave it to Bloomberg to cut their losses...
OK, 3 hours on hold for Google Apps "enterprise" support... need to use the phone now for something else... hang-up time... you win :-(.
Hmmm... Google Apps horrid support music just stopped... did they read my comment? Ha! Hope their phone system didn't just lose my call!
If its taking Google hours to answer a support call from an enterprise Apps customer, me-thinks Google Apps has some very serious problems!
Phone battery just died while waiting hours on hold for Google, ran upstairs and luckily got another handset to catch the line just in time.
Where did Google get that awful support line hold music? "K-Tel's Elevator Music's Greatest Hits, vol. 3, The Swingin' 70's!" My ears hurt!
Still on hold (2 1/2 hrs) waiting for Google Apps so-called "enterprise" priority support... BTW, worst hold music and hold message... yuck.
OK, if I were an enterprise customer, I would be questioning Google's ability to support their App customers... 2 hours on hold & counting!