Who is This?

Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has two sons, Patrick, from a previous marriage, and Milan. He and his wife currently work at PodTech.net, a video-podcast startup. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

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I was wrong about full-text feeds

See, I often do get it wrong. Or, even if I’m right today, I can be proven wrong tomorrow by market changes. So, I’m sorry I was wrong in 2006 and that the world changed to 2009 technology. Have you switched your feed reading behaviors lately? To ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Yo @chrisbrogan you’re doing Twitter wrong

It started as a little joke that I said on stage at the BlogWorld Expo. One of my fellow panelists said she didn’t like people who told other people that they were doing Twitter wrong. So, of course, I blurted out “Chris Brogan is doing Twitter wrong.” ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Guy Kawasaki

The biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce

One is a huge company that’s well known inside huge enterprises. The other is a startup with five employees that hardly anyone knows. But they both shifted the world last week in big ways. Note I didn’t put Google’s Chrome OS on this list. Why not? ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Marc Benioff,  TechCrunch,  Facebook Inc.,  Dave Winer

More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising

I believe that people who produce content should be able to make a living for producing that content. If we want journalists, bloggers, photographers, and videographers to bring us interesting stuff that makes our lives richer, we gotta figure out a ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Leo Laporte,  Facebook Inc.,  Chris Pirillo,  Second Life

Why Google Chrome OS has already won

What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field. Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple. What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. See, what happens if the ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Marc Benioff,  TechCrunch

Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet)

This is a huge shift in what Twitter is saying publicly. But advertising isn’t something many people love. So, how will Twitter make advertising you love? How can they do that? So, what is a SuperTweet? Well, first, some rules. 1. You can’t mess with ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Flickr

In search of the perfect Facebook and Twitter client

I use Twitter and Facebook a lot. Probably more than 99.9999% of people in the world. I am in search of the perfect client that will help me use Facebook and, particularly, Twitter (which I use a lot more than Facebook because that is the best place to ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Microsoft Corporation

Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps

I’ve talked about this before. Most of what we argue about is apps. Droid is better than iPhone because Droid has Google Voice, Arrington says. iPhone is better than Droid, I say, because I have Tweetie, which kicks ass over Twidroid and the other ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ray Ozzie,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Vivek Kundra

What is Twitter for? Pimping your blog!

At the Blog World Expo a few weeks ago someone asked what Twitter is for and I answered “pimping your blog.” So, I’ve finally figured out that I was clueless because I didn’t have a Twitter account for my blog. When people say they are unfollowing me ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

The worst things startups do

I believe many start with a great idea, and let ego and developers get in the way of the actual demands of the application. I love developers, but I'd run like hell from a company with 13 developers and 1 other person. I've seen way too many brilliant ...

From ROBERT SCOBLE, Scobleizer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  FriendFeed,  Medtronic, Inc.

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