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Items by Robert Scoble
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Disruptive Factories
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 5:54am CET by Robert Scoble
Just a few minutes ago I was standing in the middle of a sea of cardboard boxes. They include power supplies for your XXXXXXX. Or new laptops made by XXXXXXXX. Or other consumer electronics goodies from brands you know and love. Sorry, the owner of the supply chain (Liam Casey founder of PCH) forced me [...] -
Things I’ve learned in China so far
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 4:50am CET by Robert Scoble
Just some quick impressions. 1. If you want to compete with your web service and keep copying from happening, do two things: 1. let users upload streaming, live, video. That drives the censors here nuts. 2. Make your system totally open so your users can leave. The Chinese don’t understand that concept. They love cloning walled [...] -
Not blogging from China. Heheh.
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 4:21am CET by Robert Scoble
Well, at most of the places I’ve been the past few days my blog (and all blogs on the wordpress.com domain) is blocked so I haven’t been able to post, or even read my blog. But I’ve been posting a ton over on Twitter and on FriendFeed. Both of those sites are totally available in China [...] -
Back to Tech
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 8:17pm CET by Robert Scoble
We’re in San Francisco’s airport right now on our way to Shanghai, China. I’m mostly happy with how the politics came out, but now it’s time to get back to tech. If you unsubscribed or blocked me somewhere, sorry, but I did the same to a few people who were driving me batty. Now looking at [...] -
Sign of the times: political TechMeme headline
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 8:48pm CET by Robert Scoble
The headline screams “no one in tech can defend McCain.” So, who wants to take up the other side? Anyone? I found two. John Dvorak bet me $100 that McCain would win. My producer, Rocky Barbanica, who was a software engineer for decades before switching careers, bet me another $100 that McCain would win. Over on Twitter [...] -
Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability to turn a corner
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 7:56pm CET by Robert Scoble
This week Microsoft didn’t get much hype for its three major announcements. Certainly it didn’t stay on top of TechMeme as long as, say, if Steve Jobs gets a sniffle. But don’t miss what they did. 1. On day 1 of the PDC they announced Azure, which is a set of cloud services that competes with [...] -
FastCompanyTV moves to China (for a visit)
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 11:05pm CET by Robert Scoble
No, we’re not outsourcing, next Wednesday we’ll be going to China for a sizeable trip to hear from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists there and get some tours around factories. I’m telling you this so we can arrange some fun dinners and other impromptu events. It’s Rocky’s first time there, and I haven’t been to China [...] -
Make your car a wifi hot spot
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 1:53am CET by Robert Scoble
We’re taking a bus to the CES show and I needed a way to get Wifi onto the bus and people kept telling me about Autonet, which is a way to turn your car into a wifi hot spot. So today I visited the CEO, Sterling Pratz, and got a demo. Also car related Ford lent [...] -
Tired of economic bad news? Play free online golf!
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 12:36am CET by Robert Scoble
Today Electronic Arts laid off a bunch of people. I guess video games aren’t selling well now that we’re all tightening our budgets. But a new startup in Silicon Valley has a better idea: make a better golf game online and give it away for free. It’s called the World Golf Tour and I interviewed [...] -
A “juicy” Silicon Valley startup
Posted: October 30th, 2008, 12:41am CET by Robert Scoble
For those of you who have moved to Silicon Valley in the past 10 years you might have missed that it is built on a set of former orchards. Which is why this startup (Maverick Brands, aka Sunkist Naturals) caught my eye. I thought that maybe this CEO, Mark Shaw, had missed the memo that [...] -
Ron Conway on Economy
Posted: October 30th, 2008, 12:18am CET by Robert Scoble
Ron Conway was one of the investors in Zappos. Facebook. Twitter. Digg. Kyte. And many other companies I use and like. So, when Ron Conway speaks, I listen (and turn on the video camera). Here’s a four-minute clip where he talks about how long the economic downturn will be. Whether or not companies are getting [...] -
Live video from VentureBeat recession impact on startup event
Posted: October 29th, 2008, 5:34pm CET by Robert Scoble
We’re broadcasting live video on Kyte.tv from the second session of VentureBeat’s roundtable on the economic impacts on startups of the recession right now. We’ll try to have the recording up, but during the first session we had a problem that deleted the stream that we’re trying to figure out right now. On stage in second [...] -
Microsoft tells Google, Amazon, Adobe, Rackspace, & Apple: “stay off our lawn”
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:25pm CET by Robert Scoble
Yesterday Microsoft announced a new set of cloud-based services, called Windows Azure. Today they announced Windows 7. I’m tracking the news here, will have more to say later. What do you think? -
Qik supports Blackberry for live video
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 6:44am CET by Robert Scoble
Funny, I couldn’t Qik this video. Why? It was embargoed until tonight. So, I used a Flip camera instead of my Nokia phone. But Qik is moving fast to support the most handsets out there. For the people who don’t know what Qik does it lets you broadcast live video from your cell phone. Anyway, a whole team [...] -
Qik supports Blackberry for live video
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 6:44am CET by Robert Scoble
Funny, I couldn’t Qik this video. Why? It was embargoed until tonight. So, I used a Flip camera instead of my Nokia phone. But Qik is moving fast to support the most handsets out there. For the people who don’t know what Qik does it lets you broadcast live video from your cell phone. Anyway, a whole team [...] -
I love the Web
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 6:30am CET by Robert Scoble
I’m tired of being depressed about the economy and the news. I was reading my feeds and realized I love the Web. I learn so much, have so many cool apps (thanks Google for Google Earth on my iPhone). Am challenged so often (nine days of politics left). Meet so many cool people (last week 25 [...] -
I love the Web
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 6:30am CET by Robert Scoble
I’m tired of being depressed about the economy and the news. I was reading my feeds and realized I love the Web. I learn so much, have so many cool apps (thanks Google for Google Earth on my iPhone). Am challenged so often (nine days of politics left). Meet so many cool people (last week 25 [...] -
I love the Web
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 6:30am CET by Robert Scoble
I’m tired of being depressed about the economy and the news. I was reading my feeds and realized I love the Web. I learn so much, have so many cool apps (thanks Google for Google Earth on my iPhone). Am challenged so often (nine days of politics left). Meet so many cool people (last week 25 [...] -
PracticeFusion brings Web 2.0 to doctor’s offices
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 12:50am CET by Robert Scoble
Ryan Howard, CEO of PracticeFusion.com, showed me how they are transforming doctors offices with its Web service. Half a million doctors are on board already. Saves money and is free for doctors, while competitive systems are tens of thousands of dollars. Interesting look inside his business and how he’ll make money. Interesting for the rest [...] -
PracticeFusion brings Web 2.0 to doctor’s offices
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 12:50am CET by Robert Scoble
Ryan Howard, CEO of PracticeFusion.com, showed me how they are transforming doctors offices with its Web service. Half a million doctors are on board already. Saves money and is free for doctors, while competitive systems are tens of thousands of dollars. Interesting look inside his business and how he’ll make money. Interesting for the rest [...] -
PracticeFusion brings Web 2.0 to doctor’s offices
Posted: October 27th, 2008, 12:50am CET by Robert Scoble
Ryan Howard, CEO of PracticeFusion.com, showed me how they are transforming doctors offices with its Web service. Half a million doctors are on board already. Saves money and is free for doctors, while competitive systems are tens of thousands of dollars. Interesting look inside his business and how he’ll make money. Interesting for the rest [...] -
My first Qik from my iPhone
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 9:49pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Yesterday I visited Qik.com’s headquarters and they loaded a very early version of their iPhone streaming video app onto my iPhone. Here’s the first video I did with it. Note that this is NOT a jailbroken iPhone, but they needed to do some magic to build me an app that’ll only run on my iPhone. I [...] -
CEO of Healthline talks economy, politics, and privacy
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 9:12pm CEST by Robert Scoble
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that one of the ways to build a recession-resistant company is to be in the healthcare market since people will still need their healthcare. Yesterday I ran into the CEO of Healthline, West Shell, and had a 15-minute conversation with him. This is a dramatically big web company. [...] -
Cloud Computing Price War to come?
Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 7:00pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Rackspace today announced they are purchasing Jungle Disk and Slice Host in an event that’s going on now. What does this mean? Rackspace is competing with Amazon’s Web services. Microsoft is expected to launch other similar services next week at its PDC event. Rackspace will announce several new services both today and over the next few months. Rackspace’s [...] -
Economic optimism
Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 3:16pm CEST by Robert Scoble
There’s a TON of funding events that have gotten announced over the past few days. I’m tracking those here. Today I’m at a Rackspace event where they are announcing some more optimistic news — more on that later but there are a ton of bloggers who’ll be at the event so I’m sure it’ll be [...] -
BusinessWeek on America’s CTO gets to top of TechMeme
Posted: October 21st, 2008, 4:36am CEST by Robert Scoble
Hah, at the top of TechMeme right now is a BusinessWeek article about who America’s CTO should be if Barack Obama gets to be President. Um, Google “America’s CTO?” and you’ll find my article on the topic where I ask Larry Lessig about this (the video of Lessig is a must-watch on this topic). TechCrunch gets into [...] -
“All he talks about is politics!”
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 7:05pm CEST by Robert Scoble
In yesterday’s post several commenters said they were unsubscribing because all I do is talk about politics. Oh, really? To those who say that I only write about politics or think about politics, you are absolutely wrong. You must read my FriendFeed comments, for instance. Overwhelmingly tech. Or see the things I’ve “Liked” (er, shared) with you. Overwhelmingly tech. Or [...] -
VCs putting the brakes on, survey says
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 6:49pm CEST by Robert Scoble
DLA Piper (a large law firm that serves the tech industry) just released a survey they did of VCs and found some nasty trends: • 66% of technology companies indicated they are reducing revenue forecasts • Nearly 50% of VC firm respondents believe the current financial crisis is worse than the tech bubble crash of 2000 • More than half of [...] -
North Carolina startup to take on Quickbooks
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 6:37pm CEST by Robert Scoble
A couple of geeks who live in North Carolina hated using Quickbooks to do their invoices. For one it only worked on IE 6. But they found it much more difficult to use than it needed to be. So, what did they do? Built their own called Merchant’s Mirror (it’s in alpha testing right now, [...] -
I am not an American
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 10:41pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Dave Winer wrote a post about not being a liberal. I’m going further than Dave. I’m not an American. I believe that those who have a different idea than I do are not only American but have a right to have a different idea than I do because of our Constitution. But what do I [...] -
Front lines in the political Ground War
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 10:47pm CEST by Robert Scoble
This morning I hung out with Congressman Brad Miller (D-NC) and State Representative Pricey Harrison. They were walking a neighborhood getting voters out in Greensboro, North Carolina, which is one of those few states that are in play in the election for President. I write about it here to tell other bloggers that if you get [...] -
Layoffs and, um, funding?
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 12:13am CEST by Robert Scoble
TechCrunch started a page to keep track of layoffs in the startup world. Me? I’m seeing tons of depressing news hitting our economy. That’s what I get for watching CNBC and reading TechMeme. But, there were a group of companies funded this week too and there are plenty of jobs open. It sure is an interesting time [...] -
Win a private jet flight to CES
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 12:03am CEST by Robert Scoble
This will probably start another conversation about being tone deaf in an increasingly tough economic climate, but my friend Steve Broback and team is doing a variety of things at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that I’m working with him on. We’re doing a party (Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.tv is coming) but we’ll focus on [...] -
Recession Proof Your Startup
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 8:30pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Today on Techmeme there are a bunch of stories encouraging entrepreneurs to startup companies right now. Here’s a couple that caught my eye. Paul Graham talks about why to start a startup up in a bad economy. Don Dodge urges entrepreneurs to go for it. OK, rah, rah, rah, we all know some startups will take off in [...] -
Apeer brings collaboration to multimedia files
Posted: October 16th, 2008, 4:29am CEST by Robert Scoble
I visited today Apeer, which has just released a P2P system that lets you share and collaborate on files. It’s aimed at enterprises and companies like advertising agencies. Unfortunately it’s not free (something I think we’ll be seeing more of in this economy) but it shows innovation in helping people work together on files in [...] -
The “live web” arrives on Twitter and FriendFeed
Posted: October 16th, 2008, 1:35am CEST by Robert Scoble
You’ve seen Twitter’s election feature that showed a select kind of tweet in real time. A few minutes ago FriendFeed released a real-time-web feature that lets you watch FriendFeed in real time. This is fun to watch! Especially on nights where everyone will be giving you their opinions on politics. More about this on FriendFeed’s [...] -
Personal Dashboard perfect mobile app for tough economy
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 9:28am CEST by Robert Scoble
Have you checked out PageOnce on your iPhone yet? In just three months they are one of the top 10 productivity apps and 200,000+ have downloaded it. Here’s Guy Goldstein, CEO, telling me about the company and giving me a demo on last Friday’s WorkFastTV show. One thing I learned is that this week they are [...] -
More on Microsoft and not going to PDC
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 7:36am CEST by Robert Scoble
Frank Shaw answers back. He’s the head of Microsoft’s account at Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft’s main PR firm (and has been for years). Frank’s one of the smartest guys in the PR business, so it’s good for him to step in here. He basically has a finger lashing for everyone involved in yesterday’s incident, including me. [...] -
TurnHere for interesting recession-resistant video business
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 6:30am CEST by Robert Scoble
Well, I can see that on my last post I went too far in pushing a point that corporate bloggers don’t live under the same rules that unemployed bloggers do. In any case, this next video demonstrates why I’m not going to go to the PDC even better than worrying about my feelings. Today I [...] -
Dear Microsoft
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 10:58pm CEST by Robert Scoble
I was deciding this morning whether or not to go to your Professional Developer Conference. It’s being hyped up as one of the most important in Microsoft’s recent history. I’ve decided not to go for a variety of reasons. The economy. The numbers of bloggers and journalists who’ll be there (so many the stories will [...] -
While blogging in crisis job #1 is listening
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 8:28pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Every blogger can bloviate and tell you what he or she sees happening. But I’m noticing a trend among bloggers. Very few listen. I read hundreds of bloggers on a regular basis, along with many thousands who are brought into my view via TechMeme and my hundreds of Google Reader friends. How many actually are actively [...] -
All VC activity has NOT stopped
Posted: October 12th, 2008, 8:09pm CEST by Robert Scoble
A word of hope to entrepreneurs: I just learned of another Web company that just got funded and will announce such on Tuesday. So, even after the worst week in the stock market in history and a pretty darn tough economy coming toward us, entrepreneurs are still getting funded. Some things, though. The company getting funded [...] -
“Sky isn’t falling” blogger says
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 10:09pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Steven Hodson, over at the Inquistr blog, says “the sky isn’t falling” and “What do we get instead? We get people like Robert Scoble who have for the last few days done nothing more than highlight everything bad going on.” Ahh, yes, ye olde blame the messenger post. See, all week long I’ve been saying we’re in [...] -
The customers are gone, now what? Tent sale!
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 8:04pm CEST by Robert Scoble
My brother’s bar has gone from $15,000 a week in sales to $9,000. Almost every business I’ve been talking to has seen drops. Some less, some more. But it’s like a new kind of bomb just hit our economy: one that didn’t do anything except remove customers from our streets. So, what do you do? When [...] -
The startup squeeze
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 7:40pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Startups that don’t have revenues or a business model, like Seesmic or Twitter, are going to get squeezed big time in the next six months. Already we’ve seen how Seesmic responded to that coming squeeze yesterday. It got skinnier to make the squeeze easier to take. They will be joined over the next month by [...] -
The Well Funded Layoff
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 5:25am CEST by Robert Scoble
Today Seesmic laid off seven staff members, after laying off three other members a couple of weeks ago. They have millions of dollars in the bank and are well funded. Why would they do that? Well, I went over and hung out with the remaining staff and CEO Loic Le Meur this afternoon to learn more and [...] -
Pageonce: economic downturn winner?
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 11:38pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Pageonce’s CEO Guy Goldstein was on my WorkFastTV show this morning (the recording will be up on Monday, but I did a separate video with him afterward on Kyte.tv so you can get a sense of what his app does) and while we were talking he was reporting that he’s seeing a ton of usage [...] -
Economic crisis hits home…
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:49pm CEST by Robert Scoble
I’ve just learned I have a new boss and that lots of moves are being made by my parent company, Mansueto Ventures, which publishes Fast Company and Inc Magazines and also does a series of online sites, including Fast Company TV, which I head along with Rocky Barbanica. I also just learned that 20 of [...] -
Thanks for help on Scalability Questions
Posted: October 9th, 2008, 11:44am CEST by Robert Scoble
Over the weekend I pleaded for help with the Webinar I’m hosting today on scalability. The comments I received on the blog and on FriendFeed are world class and included links to tons of resources. It is an example of why I love blogging and Twittering and FriendFeeding. What an interesting group of people hang [...] -
The best marketer of 2008 reads us the ROI act
Posted: October 9th, 2008, 11:18am CEST by Robert Scoble
You think the best marketer of the year is Tom Peters? Guy Kawasaki? Seth Godin? Sorry guys. It’s Gary Vaynerchuk. He owns a sizeable wine store in New Jersey. Sells $50 million a year. And he reads all other marketers the riot act. Er, the ROI act. Why do I say he’s the best marketer? He’s taking [...] -
The Enterprise Soft Spot, er, the Enterprise Email Crisis
Posted: October 9th, 2008, 10:37am CEST by Robert Scoble
Yesterday I spoke to thousands of Cisco’s employees. That itself was a pretty cool experience. In front of me was a live audience along with several video cameras. To my side was one of their telepresence systems. They had people all over the world who I could talk with and ask questions of. You’ve probably [...] -
How do you lead when you’re afraid?
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 6:25pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Lots of people are keeping a stiff upper lip online, but when I meet with people I can see the fear in their eyes. I’ll be honest, I’m afraid of the coming storm. But I’m trying to get all that out of my system as quickly as possible so I can start thinking rationally again and [...] -
Another business model: subscriptions
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 10:10am CEST by Robert Scoble
Want to build a business like Netflix? Zuora’s CEO, Tien Tzuo, showed me its new platform the other day and I recorded him on my cell phone. I like it when I see business models that aren’t just “advertising” and Zuora’s platform seems well thought out (Tien used to be an executive at Salesforce.com and [...] -
The state of the One Laptop Per Child project
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 9:52am CEST by Robert Scoble
Lots of you heard a lot of hoopla about the OLPC project (er, One Laptop Per Child). This is a strange little machine that’s aimed at bringing computing to kids around the world. It’s been a while since I heard anything about it, other than they had started shipping with both Linux and Windows, which [...] -
Behind the art in EA’s Dead Space video game
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 9:27am CEST by Robert Scoble
Want to know what’s behind making the art for a video game? It might sound boring, but Dead Space from Electronic Arts is no boring game. This brings a whole new lighting engine that lets artists do things that no other video game can do. Plus, a whole lot of scary monsters. Listen to Ian Milham, [...] -
The glass half full business conference
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 12:58am CEST by Robert Scoble
Are you depressed about the market? Well, just think of all that we have that costs nothing! Here, Mitch Joel put together a whole conference for you. Costs nothing. Just grab a glass of wine and watch. It reminded me of how much I love TED Talks. Watch the video of famous conductor Benjamin Zander, it’ll get [...] -
We’re in a death spiral
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 8:06pm CEST by Robert Scoble
The DOW is down about 600 about 700 about 370 right now. Yahoo Finance has the bad news. UPDATE: what a bumpy ride. At one point it was down 748 on my screen and ended up down “only” (Yahoo Finance’s headline) 370. Here’s the deal: many of us are afraid. That fear is changing our behavior [...] -
Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 8:42am CEST by Robert Scoble
I’m really freaked out. I have one of the biggest interviews of my life coming up and I’m way under qualified to host it. It’s on Thursday and it’s about Scalability and Performance of Web Services. Look at who will be on. Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress (and behind this blog). Paul Bucheit, [...] -
So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck
Posted: October 5th, 2008, 9:47pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Since the economy is slowing down, I’m hearing of lots of you who are getting laid off and looking for jobs. Here’s my experience on the other side of that — being someone who is trying to hire someone. Fast Company TV is hiring an administrative assistant. We advertised the job Friday morning on Craig’s List [...] -
Our disappearing web
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 4:26pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Garret McMahon is right. He looked at the just-put-up “old Google” from 2001 (lots of fun to do searches and see what Google looked like back then, that index was done just a few days after I started blogging) and he noticed that lots of things that were on the Web back then are gone. My [...] -
This is one contest I don’t care if I lose
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 3:49pm CEST by Robert Scoble
Go help Kara Swisher win. She runs the “D Conference” and deserves to win just because she used one of my naked pictures. :-) Or, go help Fred Wilson win. He’s a famous VC and he should win hands down, like he did last year. Why don’t I care if I lose? Because this “DonorsChoose program” is [...] -
The kind of entrepreneur I like
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 6:00am CEST by Robert Scoble
Last week we were in Boston and met up with Mukesh Chatter, CEO of MoneyAisle. People ask me the kind of conversation I like having. This is it. A new business that I hadn’t heard of that is adding real value. A smart executive who can explain how it works clearly, cleanly (it lets you [...] -
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 im