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
I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.
The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.
And every time I post on it, my new content goes to the top, and the old content moves down the page.
A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.
Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.
But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.
Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.
We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.
Never use pages for personal brand!
Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines).
I shook Steve Jobs hand.
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule
Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.