Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Robert Scobleis an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He later worked for Fast Company as a video blogger, and then Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43 promoting breakthrough technology and startups. He currently works for Upload VR — a new media site covering virtual and augmented reality — as its entrepreneur in residence, where he develops new shows,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 January 1965
CountryUnited States of America
It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.
The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.
What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.
Unfriend people who do not post to Facebook or engage with anyone else. You'll find your posts start getting reach they never did before. Why? Facebook only releases your posts to a few people at first and watches what they do with it.
We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.
If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.
I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.
I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.
I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen.
I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.