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Exclusive video: SocialText brings enterprise Facebook and Twitter to wikis

Posted: September 30th, 2008, 7:34pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Socialtext is making big news all over the Web this morning. Here’s a rundown, later in the post I’ll talk about why. I also have an exclusive video of Ross Mayfield, founder of Socialtext demonstrating the new features to me. Ross Mayfield, for my cell phone camera last night, explains the changes in this 18-minute video. Ross [...]
Economic Idiocy

Posted: September 30th, 2008, 11:32am CEST by Robert Scoble

Louis Gray nailed it last night when he wrote that there are no experts in this financial crisis. In the past 18 hours I’ve read literally thousands of posts and have done almost nothing but hang out on FriendFeed. I’ve seen a LOT of idiocy. And these are supposedly from the smarter, more educated people around. [...]
Salesblogger prepares for downturn

Posted: September 30th, 2008, 10:44am CEST by Robert Scoble

I met Scott Schnaars yesterday on my tour through Palo Alto. He’s a 15-year sales veteran of the tech industry and is working with Ross Mayfield at SocialText. He told me he’s already been video blogging to other salespeople about how to get through the bad economic times. I watched tonight. It’s not Wine Library [...]
Silicon Valley prepares for financial storm of century

Posted: September 30th, 2008, 10:07am CEST by Robert Scoble

I was walking around Palo Alto yesterday afternoon, visiting startups to see what the mood is. One scene stuck out for me. I was walking to my car with Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem and a friend of his ran into us in the street and said “nice job getting funding last month.” They make apps [...]
Wall to wall economic news

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 8:54pm CEST by Robert Scoble

FriendFeed is where I’ve been tracking tech people’s reactions to the bad day on Wallstreet. Wow, what a feed. It’s wall to wall economic news.
Half an hour of mobile goodness

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 7:40pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Last Friday I had Sumit Agarwal, product manager on Google’s mobile team on my show, which is about how the Internet is changing work, WorkFastTV. Damn, that guy knows his mobile! In half an hour we run through dozens of things you can do with your cell phone. This is my favorite WorkFast show so far, [...]
Anti-depression thinking: what do we do?

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 7:01pm CEST by Robert Scoble

I’m watching the economic news this morning flow through FriendFeed and I can feel the fear. The depression. Apple is down 14%. Startups won’t get funded. Etc. Etc. It’s all there, if you want to follow along. Lately I’ve been clicking “Like” on a lot of unlikeable news (that’s how I share interesting stuff with [...]
A tale of two photos on Flickr

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 1:19am CEST by Robert Scoble

Last night I uploaded two photos at the same time. As of this posting one had 96 views on Flickr and the other had 1,389 views. Some other facts: The photo with 96 views used a fisheye lens that cost 4x more than the other photo. (Thank you to Pro Photo Rental for coming along on the Las [...]
The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List

Posted: September 26th, 2008, 10:59pm CEST by Robert Scoble

This is my hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding. All of these point to FriendFeed. If you know someone who deserves to be on this list, please post their FriendFeed URL. Mine is: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer I watch this list very closely and put the best stuff from these people onto my [...]
Tech News you can’t use

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 10:58pm CEST by Robert Scoble

OK, I’m over at TechMeme where there is a TON of tech news today. I can’t keep up. Let’s run through the headlines and see how much of it you can use. 1. Next-gen MacBook, MacBookPro spotted in matching outfits. Can’t use. (They aren’t out yet). 2. Apple’s iPhone Developer NDA Kills Book for iPhone Developers. Can’t use. [...]
Two-word blogging

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 10:00pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Lately I’ve been experimenting with saying less and seeing where that takes us. Today’s two word blog? Depression and Fear. In a world of information overload maybe two-word posts are going to be a trend. Who knew that two words could kick off so many more words? :-) Chalk this up to my laziness. I could have [...]
Coolest thing at MIT conference is the badges?

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 8:08pm CEST by Robert Scoble

I’m still getting around to see a bunch of cool things here in Boston as I attend the MIT Emerging Technology conference but the coolest thing just might be the badges. They are electronic devices made by nTAG Interactive. First of all they got the visual part right. You can read people’s names from a [...]
Canon takes good PR and throws it in the trash

Posted: September 24th, 2008, 12:35am CEST by Robert Scoble

Amazing, remember last night when we were all slobbering over the new 5D MKII’s video capabilities? Well, today Don MacAskill, CEO of SmugMug, wrote that Canon had forced him to take down the videos. Why? He doesn’t quite know, but says it seems to be around the fact that SmugMug’s HD video was far better [...]
Gadget lust in times of economic troubles

Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 9:42am CEST by Robert Scoble

Damn you Canon. Check out this post from Don MacAskill, CEO of Smugmug. It has all my photographer friends slobbering over themselves over Canon’s new $2,800 DSLR. Me too. I want one of these in the worst way. Problem is I can’t afford one. Neither can a lot of people. I blew my gadget budget a [...]
Blogging, changing every day

Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 9:26am CEST by Robert Scoble

Interesting to see the reactions to Technorati’s latest “State of the Blogosphere” post. My reaction matches Duncan Riley’s. I’ve been investing nearly all of my available time on FriendFeed lately, which is why my blog has slowed down to a mere trickle compared to how often I used to update, say, four years ago (on [...]
The new blogroll

Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 8:22am CEST by Robert Scoble

I used to have a blogroll. In the early days of blogging (I started in December of 2000) most bloggers would have lists of links to their favorite blogs. Usually that was placed on the side of their blog. Eventually there were too many blogs. Or they got stale. So they became pretty useless. Then they [...]
2,000 “no’s” a year

Posted: September 20th, 2008, 7:10pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Allegis Capital says no to 2,000 companies a year. Since I was on stage at TechCrunch 50 seeing a bunch of startups, I wanted to have a conversation with one of the top venture capitalists in the world. Here’s the founder of Allegis Capital, Bob Ackerman, who gives me a 34-minute rundown of his view [...]
Coolest place to do an Enterprise interview: HP Garage

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 7:51am CEST by Robert Scoble

I’m convinced the coolest place to do an interview with an HP executive is the original HP Garage. Robin Purohit, HP’s General Manager of Information Management, invited me over to talk about information overload inside Enterprises and what HP Software is doing for Enterprises to help them manage their email. [...]
In one person’s career…

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 7:37am CEST by Robert Scoble

I interviewed Brian Dexheimer who works for Seagate. He’s worked there for 24 years. He told me that when he started working for Seagate selling hard drives the devices were as big as a file cabinet, only held 300 megabytes, and cost $12,000. The drives Seagate started selling this week are about the size of a paperback [...]
Visiting the Library of Congress and Meeting the Flickr team

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 6:55am CEST by Robert Scoble

I’ve always wanted to visit the Library of Congress (I shared a car once with THE Librarian of Congress, James Billington and he invited me to come and get a tour). If you haven’t been there, it’s the largest library in the world and their collection has about 14 million images. But today was even better [...]
Avoid the “fail whale” webinar

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 6:24am CEST by Robert Scoble

Ahh, here’s a free webinar coming up on October 9th: “Avoiding the ‘Fail Whale’.” Speaking? * Matt Mullenweg: Founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress. * Paul Bucheit: One of the founders of FriendFeed and the creator of Gmail. * Nat Brown: CTO of iLike, [...]
AT&T sees iPhone/voice controlled world

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 5:48am CEST by Robert Scoble

That’s Mazin Gilbert of AT&T showing off a research project to John Biggs, who runs CrunchGear, one of the best blogs that cover consumer electronics. You’ll notice the research project is running on Gilbert’s iPhone. ComputerWorld wrote up the event and you’ll see that iPhones played a key role in a lot what was demonstrated. There CTO [...]
My fellow Democrats

Posted: September 15th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Robert Scoble

I just visited the 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon today and the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Those experiences, among others, have led me to this note. To everyone else, sorry, this is one of those times I’m going to get into politics. If you don’t like that, come back tomorrow when I’ll be at AT&T and [...]
Use Twitter or FriendFeed and win a new Seagate Drive

Posted: September 12th, 2008, 10:31pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Disclaimer: Seagate is one of my sponsors and this post is part of that sponsorship. Next week Seagate will announce some new hard drives on Tuesday — they are pretty cool drives, I got a preview under embargo that’ll run on Tuesday, September 16th 2008, on FastCompanyTV. Bill Watkins, CEO, will ring the bell at NASDAQ. [...]
In startup success blogs don’t matter, paradigm shifts do

Posted: September 11th, 2008, 10:07pm CEST by Robert Scoble

What’s the most successful new company out there of the past two years? I’d argue it’s iLike, a music sharing and discovery service that came out on Facebook first, but has moved other places. When I quit Microsoft they had no users. Today they have 30 million. How did THAT happen? It wasn’t because they got bloggers all [...]
CERN: Congrats for powering up LHC

Posted: September 10th, 2008, 11:30am CEST by Robert Scoble

Congrats to all the physicists at CERN for getting the Large Hadron Collider up and running. Twitter and FriendFeed are going nuts. Earlier this year physicist Frank Taylor gave me a tour of the LHC, which is up here. Part I Part II Just look at the home page of Twitter’s search engine to see the trending topics [...]
Lessig on USA CTO position video now up

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 10:44pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Remember when I kicked off a firestorm about whether America needs a Chief Technical Officer, after a conversation with Creative Commons’ founder and Stanford law professor Larry Lessig? Well, the interview that started that conversation is now up. I could listen to Lessig for hours. The dude is smart. He also talks about how to change [...]
TechCrunch’s startups’ web sites suck too

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 5:38pm CEST by Robert Scoble

OK, I just visited the companies Web sites of the finalists for TC50. They mostly suck too. But this time I’m going to put the blame on the conference holders. Why do they suck? Because lots of them are like this one, which just has a form up because they can’t reveal anything about themselves [...]
First TC50 Suckage: Wifi at conference?

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 5:19pm CEST by Robert Scoble

@matteofabiano writes “TC50 wifi overloaded. Way too slow.” It’s not the only note I’ve seen already about the Wifi sucking and the show hasn’t even started yet. Jason Calacanis, co-founder of TC50, wrote last night: ““90 mbits of bandwidth at tc50 location. Roof antena and wire line. Wifi for 1500 devices. I hope we stay up!!!” Has anyone [...]
72 Nice Things about Demo’s Startups’ Websites

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 12:13pm CEST by Robert Scoble

OK, OK, I’ve had my weekend fun when I said, on Saturday, that most of the sites for the companies being shown at the Demo Conference suck. That conference starts later today. I got half the industry to hate me. I have people wondering if I’m a paid shill for Arrington or TC50. Hate mail [...]
My “alignment” with TC50

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 1:32am CEST by Robert Scoble

Alec Saunders, in a comment over on his blog where he said I came off very poorly in my rant about the startups at Demo’s websites questions my “alignment” with TC50. I think that’s worth pointing out here. I have not shared a meal in the past few months with Mike Arrington. Last time I remember [...]
Useful travel web sites

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 12:41am CEST by Robert Scoble

I travel a lot. You might notice that I use sites like TripIt and Dopplr to help me plan my trips, keep track of where I’m going, and share important information with my friends and family and you. I also mostly fly United because I’m a long time frequent flier there (if I was starting [...]
The future of the Web is Marc Canter’s back fence

Posted: September 7th, 2008, 11:41pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Yesterday I visited Marc Canter who was holding a BBQ. His back fence is, should we say, unique. Canter is the guy who started Macromind, which became Macromedia. He’s always been ahead of the market in recognizing where things are going. Plus he’s just fun to talk with. So, I filmed him showing off his [...]
The “gold standard” of recent startups

Posted: September 7th, 2008, 11:15pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Well, I’ve taken potshots at the new breed of startups. But let’s go back and look at recent startups that have gotten our attention and use this list as a “gold standard” through which to judge companies that come out this week at one of the two conferences. I put forth a short list of some [...]
How to be a stealth site

Posted: September 7th, 2008, 10:10am CEST by Robert Scoble

Let’s say you want to introduce your product on a certain date. Say on Monday because you are demonstrating your product at Demo or TC50. Well, you aren’t allowed to show off the product, right? So, what do you do? Well, look at Causecast’s site. This is done pretty darn well. What did they do? 1. It’s an attractive [...]
The Superbowl of Startups

Posted: September 7th, 2008, 8:48am CEST by Robert Scoble

When I attended Demo I remember being in awe of what I thought of as the Superbowl of Startups. Here were these companies that prepared months to spend six minutes on stage. Later I talked with “DemoGods Coaches” like Shel Israel or Nathan Gold. They told me just how much hard work went in behind the scenes. [...]
Scoble Sucks

Posted: September 7th, 2008, 6:48am CEST by Robert Scoble

Whoa, the hate mail has been flowing fast and furious tonight. Pat Phelan, founder of MaxRoam, says that today my shine came off. Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic, says that it’s easy to knock startups when I’ve never started one. I’ve never been the top dog, but the store I helped manage in the 1980s was [...]
Startups: your web site sucks

Posted: September 6th, 2008, 9:11pm CEST by Robert Scoble

I visited each website from the list of Demo finalists. Boy, do they suck. Really, really suck. Does no one understand how to market themselves? It’s amazing to me that not a single Demo website has learned from the lessons of Gary Vaynerchuk’s Winelibrary.tv. Now THAT is a Website that knows how to market! (Interesting that Gary runs [...]
Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups

Posted: September 6th, 2008, 8:03pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Daniel Terdiman, over at CNET, is reporting that Demo and TC50 are potentially fragmenting their audiences. Let’s cry for a moment for all the startups. Boo, hoo, hooo. Back to reality. Any startup that looks at this as a loss should be refused funding. First it’s funny that a CNET reporter is saying that. After all, CNET is [...]
Inside Facebook, Part I (New design)

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:14am CEST by Robert Scoble

I’m getting an inside look at Facebook and here is our first interview with one of Facebook’s top geeks, Mark Slee, who runs the team that did the new design that came out a couple of weeks ago. You get a look at the executive offices (Zuckerberg’s office is right behind the cameras) and learn [...]
A stress free morning with Om Malik

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:07am CEST by Robert Scoble

You might know that Om Malik, founder of GigaOm, one of my favorite blogs and media companies, had a heart attack last December. He’s been reminding me to lose weight, and make other improvements to have a happier and longer life. Well, this morning I got together with him and Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky to talk [...]
The political topic that must not be discussed in USA

Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 6:56pm CEST by Robert Scoble

No, not a 17-year-old’s sex life. That’s fair game in today’s media world, it seems. No, not abortion or whether or not a candidate considered such or will legislate against choice to use it. That’s fair game too. No, not gun ownership or support of that. That’s been discussed at length. No, not whether some [...]
First hour with Google’s new browser

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 9:56pm CEST by Robert Scoble

I’m playing with Google’s new Chrome browser. So far, damn, this is nice. Pros. 1. Uses less memory. I still need to do some tests on a clean machine, but it looks like it uses dramatically less memory than Firefox or IE8 beta2. 2. Faster. Both on startup and scrolling around. On my tests with Google Reader it’s [...]
Google still has a sense of humor

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 11:13pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Not only did Google announce Chrome (its new browser that’s making a splash all over TechMeme) with a comic book but there’s a bit more funny history as well. Several years ago Microsoft had a project code-named Chrome. It was supposed to be a multimedia browser. The project was killed a few weeks away from shipping. [...]
Hot photosynth from IFA Berlin

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 4:16pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Sorry, this is for Windows users only, but got a really neat Photosynth of a model sitting on top of a Harley Davidson motorcycle inside the Samsung booth at IFA in Berlin. You can use Microsoft’s Photosynth technology to “walk around” the exhibit. For those of you with Macs, you’ll just have to see the photo [...]
Zoho gets us ready for Office 2.0 conference

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 2:44pm CEST by Robert Scoble

Last week on the WorkFastTV show, we got a little preview of the kinds of things we’ll see this week at the Office 2.0 Conference as Zoho’s evangelist Raju Vegesna visits us. Zoho has a million users. All gotten without a brand name like Microsoft or Google. How did they get there? What have they done [...]
The expo war over startups

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 2:33pm CEST by Robert Scoble

First, a disclaimer. I’m a judge on TechCrunch 50, but not getting paid by TC50. Last week while I visited the IFA expo in Berlin, Germany (a huge consumer electronics show) I was traveling with a bunch of journalists. Stephen Wildstrom from BusinessWeek. Harry McCracken (formerly of PC World). Eric Lundquist from eWeek. Larry Magid [...]

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