Fred Davis

Media guy, start-up junkie, gadfly, prognosticator.
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!
HACK ATTACK-Pt.2: hacker got into email, then went to sites to recover lost passwords via email. Email PW recovery is a bad, too insecure!
lastpass.com - Robert Higgins
HACK ATTACK! Well-orchestrated hack into many of my major accounts today, incl email, google checkout, paypal, bank,etc. Busy fixing things.
In love, good things come to those who DON'T wait ;-).
Earth is cruising around the sun, and passes by Mars. Mars: Hey, Earth! How's it going? Earth: <cough> Got a bad case of Human, it'll pass.
Ethics in online "journalism" have been,um, rather lax.New FTC ruling forcing bloggers to disclose ties to products/vendors is a good thing.
FTC sends a message to (would-be journalist) bloggers: disclose ties to products/vendors or be fined! Yeah! About time! http://finance.yahoo.com/news....
Bad day for print. Conde closing Gourmet, Cookie, and Modern Bride(used to be a ZD pub). IDG reducing Computerworld from weekly to 2x/month.
@davewiner Dave, sorry to hear about your father. That's a tough one, I feel for you.
Sure would love to get a Google Wave invite... but so would a lot of people! Now serving # 101,894.
Pix from the photowalk in Half Moon Bay today with @scobleizer @lisapadilla http://www.flickr.com/photos....
On @scobleizer's recommendation we both had hibiscus margaritas at the surreal Half Moon Bay Ritz... now that drink was a new one for me!
Enjoyed walking from @sobleizer's to the Ritz for a few rounds of drinks after some heavy Grabbit brainstorming... hit it right at sunset!
Brainstorming about Grabbit with @scobleizer at his house in Half Moon Bay... pssst: he really is a genius!
SpamBot Alert Pt.3"Publish recent activity (one line stories) to my wall" is set on by default. no-no zynga, bad dog(like bad web toolbars).
SpamBot Alert! Pt.2: evil twitter and facebook apps trick you into infesting your followers with updates you never intended to send... bad!
All these people tweeting about how much they run... makes me feel like a computato! All I was doing was geeking out on grabbit and k.im ;).
The Gap is a great SF story, a great retailing story, and a great mom & pop story, too. Don & Doris Fisher started it with just a $63K loan.
I liked Don & Doris Fisher. I remember going into one of the 1st Gap stores in SF, and it was like a head shop that also sold jeans & tees.
Don Fisher, founder of the Gap just died. I remember going down to his place in Carmel and pitching him on Spark (Web 1.0). He invested!
Zynga = Ka-chinga! 7 million Farmville users in the 1st month, talk about viral! And sly mktg.! And, oh yeah, my brother Serge works there.
@lisapadilla has gotten sucked into playing Farmville after Rich Levandov (a pal & Zynga investor) told us about how fast it was growing!
Har-de-har-har! "10 Hilarious Twitter Parody Videos - http://mashable.com/2009...."
OK, tiny extra rantism: SUVs have killed way more people than the 9-11 terror attacks <cough>... makes you proud to be an American, huh?
SUV= Selfish Unsafe Vehicle. SUVs that don't meet passenger safety and pollution standards should be recalled. OK, enough ranting on that.
Most SUVs are defective by design... cheating on pollution and safety stuff made way more profit for Detroit... lots of good it did them!
Plus, the larger size of SUVs makes them harder for normal cars to see around, causing more accidents and deaths.
SUVs poor safety design kills more people in SUVs and in other cars... but I'm more affected by not being able to breathe, which is a drag.
Guess most people dont know that SUVs were given illegal variances for pollution & safety, by classifying them as trucks not passenger cars.
Pain at the pump isn't really enough punishment for SUV drivers... don't they care that their selfish choice is literally killing people?
Another Spare the Air Day in the Bay Area <cough> asthma really bad lately. All those SUVs literally make me sick and even kill some people.