Published by Robert Scoble
I give you a front-row seat on the future. Focusing most of my efforts now on next-generation augmented reality and artificial intelligence, AKA "mixed reality."
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WATCH MY LATEST SPEECHES:
State of VR with Philip Rosedale (done in VR itself, very cool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAA1EVGUZU
At GEOINT, June 2017: http://trajectorymagazine.com/glimpse-new-world/
Augmented World Expo, June 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xHILvLD8E
At Leade.rs, April 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
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BIO:
Scoble gives you a front-row seat on the future.
Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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SPEAKER PITCH:
Apple and Facebook now have revealed their Augmented Reality strategies, which means your business needs one too. Rely on Robert Scoble, the world's top authority on AR, to bring to your conference what businesses should do next.
SPEECH ABSTRACT #1:
TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
Learn more about Robert's speaking style and contact his agent at http://odemanagement.com/robert-scoble/Robert-Scoble.html
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #2:
"The Next Two Clicks of Moore's Law."
Over the next four years, or two clicks of Moore's Law, a ton about our technology world will change. Scoble will bring you the best from his travels visiting R&D labs, startups, and innovators around the world.
He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #3:
"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
What role does augmented reality play in both worlds?
Get Scoble's insight into where augmented reality is going, see tons of real-world demos, and understand what he means by 'personalized meaning.'
CONTACT:
If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com.
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ENDORSEMENTS:
IZEA Top 25 Tech Influencers: https://izea.com/2017/07/07/25-top-tech-influencers/
Time: One of the top 140 Twitterers!
FT: One of the five most influential Twitterers!
Inc. Top 5 on list of Tech Power Players You Need to Know: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/30-power-players-in-tech-you-need-to-know.html
Next Reality: #4 on top 50 AR influencer list: https://next.reality.news/news/nr50-next-realitys-50-people-watch-augmented-mixed-reality-0177454/
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THERE IS STILL HOPE 🙂
You can still post the OVERVIEWS on this blog.
It does not have to be 100% technically, perfectly accurate…just basic points from what you can STILL remember, added to this any notes you may have taken.
hmmm….perhaps others may wish to also post anonymously about facts they can still recall – or the replies they have on file to your emails.
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THERE IS STILL HOPE 🙂
You can still post the OVERVIEWS on this blog.
It does not have to be 100% technically, perfectly accurate…just basic points from what you can STILL remember, added to this any notes you may have taken.
hmmm….perhaps others may wish to also post anonymously about facts they can still recall – or the replies they have on file to your emails.
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It seems you are suffering from a condition similar to Mark Pilgrim. My wife calls it ‘hoarding’.
I ‘hoard’ bottle caps.
You ‘hoard’ information.
Let it go, float into the ocean. Let the information flow over you, through you, and be gone again. Be content to know that there is enough out there to keep you afloat, without you needing to bottle it all……
Of course, I could be quite facile and short-sighted.
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It seems you are suffering from a condition similar to Mark Pilgrim. My wife calls it ‘hoarding’.
I ‘hoard’ bottle caps.
You ‘hoard’ information.
Let it go, float into the ocean. Let the information flow over you, through you, and be gone again. Be content to know that there is enough out there to keep you afloat, without you needing to bottle it all……
Of course, I could be quite facile and short-sighted.
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Search: oh, most of it isn’t really of interest to you. It’s minutia that would be useful to someone trying to build a relationship network and figure out who runs certain groups and all that.
Gizo: yeah, I am. I actually throw out most email after I answer it. So, 1.5 gigs is only the good stuff.
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Search: oh, most of it isn’t really of interest to you. It’s minutia that would be useful to someone trying to build a relationship network and figure out who runs certain groups and all that.
Gizo: yeah, I am. I actually throw out most email after I answer it. So, 1.5 gigs is only the good stuff.
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In order to “hoart” information, you could easily use http://www.systemone.at , allowing you to, besides blogs, wikis, any type of rss feeds, indexing even websites and your personal email, while still having full control of the access rights to each bit of information. You can let yourself impress by a five minutes comprehensive screencast: http://www.systemone.at/screencast/eng/ .
To keep it clear: I’m not affiliated with systemone in any way. I’m a student of business administration, who is excited by the possibilities that this new software seems to offer.
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In order to “hoart” information, you could easily use http://www.systemone.at , allowing you to, besides blogs, wikis, any type of rss feeds, indexing even websites and your personal email, while still having full control of the access rights to each bit of information. You can let yourself impress by a five minutes comprehensive screencast: http://www.systemone.at/screencast/eng/ .
To keep it clear: I’m not affiliated with systemone in any way. I’m a student of business administration, who is excited by the possibilities that this new software seems to offer.
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I just don’t get it.
“I left more than a gig of email at Microsoft. And that was after deleting all the crud out of it. What knowledge was in there? Tons of stuff about Channel 9 that would have been awesome for someone to use to learn about how things get onto Channel 9 and how it evolved. Gone. Deleted.”
Some stufff got deleted, some left behind.
Yet you seem to be lamenting the whole thing.
I can understand being regretful about leaving stuff behind.
I can understand being unhappy about deleting stuff.
I don’t know which of these you are talking about, or whether you are talking about both, or about Microsoft policy.
What is the relevant policy and how does it figure, if at all, in what you just did?
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I just don’t get it.
“I left more than a gig of email at Microsoft. And that was after deleting all the crud out of it. What knowledge was in there? Tons of stuff about Channel 9 that would have been awesome for someone to use to learn about how things get onto Channel 9 and how it evolved. Gone. Deleted.”
Some stufff got deleted, some left behind.
Yet you seem to be lamenting the whole thing.
I can understand being regretful about leaving stuff behind.
I can understand being unhappy about deleting stuff.
I don’t know which of these you are talking about, or whether you are talking about both, or about Microsoft policy.
What is the relevant policy and how does it figure, if at all, in what you just did?
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You’re right – too much compiled knowledge and wisdom gets into email, stays there and never gets properly expressed. We’ve been let down by over-promised intranets, corporate knowledge capture yada-yada.
But hey! your guys have got SUCH fun ahead by the sounds of it.
Have great fun, luck and success.
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You’re right – too much compiled knowledge and wisdom gets into email, stays there and never gets properly expressed. We’ve been let down by over-promised intranets, corporate knowledge capture yada-yada.
But hey! your guys have got SUCH fun ahead by the sounds of it.
Have great fun, luck and success.
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Robert, did you have a requirement to delete all that email? If not, couldn’t you just have backed up your mail folders and have taken them with you when you left?
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Robert, did you have a requirement to delete all that email? If not, couldn’t you just have backed up your mail folders and have taken them with you when you left?
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@ricky… I’m not sure if this what RObert was lamenting, but the problem with losing all of the information in those emails is only partially that he can’t get at it. The bigger problem is that Microsoft can’t benefit from the information in there either. Any learning encapsulated in those emails is gone.
Robert – here’s a thought… post all emails to aliases on an internal blog by using the post-by-email feature of WordPress or some other blog software that does this. Just add the posting address to the alias. Use different email post addresses for different aliases… That way, at least, knowledge sent to aliases is captured. Yeah, it’s lowtech… but it’s easy and doesn’t require getting people to change.
Gee, I wonder if Ray O is thinking about this… 🙂
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@ricky… I’m not sure if this what RObert was lamenting, but the problem with losing all of the information in those emails is only partially that he can’t get at it. The bigger problem is that Microsoft can’t benefit from the information in there either. Any learning encapsulated in those emails is gone.
Robert – here’s a thought… post all emails to aliases on an internal blog by using the post-by-email feature of WordPress or some other blog software that does this. Just add the posting address to the alias. Use different email post addresses for different aliases… That way, at least, knowledge sent to aliases is captured. Yeah, it’s lowtech… but it’s easy and doesn’t require getting people to change.
Gee, I wonder if Ray O is thinking about this… 🙂
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I thought they were legally REQUIRED to store all emails…
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I thought they were legally REQUIRED to store all emails…
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Yeah, it is pretty sad to leave a place but more so than anything it is the human contacts that really make the move an unpleasant experience. I worked for 10 years beside a guy and grew to think of him as a brother. We talked every day and knew the details of each others lives well. It just occured to me a few days ago that I have not seen him since I left and now he has moved to Spain. A good friend lost! The work environment throws us alongside people and we dont always appreciate their real worth, we make some sort of distinction between work associates and friends.
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Yeah, it is pretty sad to leave a place but more so than anything it is the human contacts that really make the move an unpleasant experience. I worked for 10 years beside a guy and grew to think of him as a brother. We talked every day and knew the details of each others lives well. It just occured to me a few days ago that I have not seen him since I left and now he has moved to Spain. A good friend lost! The work environment throws us alongside people and we dont always appreciate their real worth, we make some sort of distinction between work associates and friends.
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Yeah, it is pretty sad to leave a place but more so than anything it is the human contacts that really make the move an unpleasant experience. I worked for 10 years beside a guy and grew to think of him as a brother. We talked every day and knew the details of each others lives well. It just occured to me a few days ago that I have not seen him since I left and now he has moved to Spain. A good friend lost! The work environment throws us alongside people and we dont always appreciate their real worth, we make some sort of distinction between work associates and friends. I suppose you will have some social regrets in leaving Microsoft – but maybe techies are never alone if they have their computers around. Is Spain as close as the next cubicle?
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Yeah, it is pretty sad to leave a place but more so than anything it is the human contacts that really make the move an unpleasant experience. I worked for 10 years beside a guy and grew to think of him as a brother. We talked every day and knew the details of each others lives well. It just occured to me a few days ago that I have not seen him since I left and now he has moved to Spain. A good friend lost! The work environment throws us alongside people and we dont always appreciate their real worth, we make some sort of distinction between work associates and friends. I suppose you will have some social regrets in leaving Microsoft – but maybe techies are never alone if they have their computers around. Is Spain as close as the next cubicle?
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Oh! There is no policy regarding Knowledge Management in a company like Microsoft? 🙂
With e-mail the story seems to be very much the same everywhere. There should be an option to mark e-mail as ‘private’ or not-available as a “knowledge item” directly in Outlook, and the rest should be automatically indexed in some sort of external database (out of MS Exchange) – accessible later on via a search engine like Microsoft/MSN Search.
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Oh! There is no policy regarding Knowledge Management in a company like Microsoft? 🙂
With e-mail the story seems to be very much the same everywhere. There should be an option to mark e-mail as ‘private’ or not-available as a “knowledge item” directly in Outlook, and the rest should be automatically indexed in some sort of external database (out of MS Exchange) – accessible later on via a search engine like Microsoft/MSN Search.
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At my last place of employment, I was the annoying guy who demanded that everyone put everything into our internal wiki, and I was the king of adding pages and orgazining information. When I left there were well over 1000 pages, and I’m guessing I created or touched 75% of them.
Of course they might have felt much more comfortable getting rid of me after I documented every single project I ever worked on.
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At my last place of employment, I was the annoying guy who demanded that everyone put everything into our internal wiki, and I was the king of adding pages and orgazining information. When I left there were well over 1000 pages, and I’m guessing I created or touched 75% of them.
Of course they might have felt much more comfortable getting rid of me after I documented every single project I ever worked on.
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Capturing the knowledge before it walks out the door is important, yes, but isn’t it also important to keep it–i.e., the employee–from walking out the door in the first place? I’d like to see companies pay more attention to creating a work environment that their employees don’t want to leave. Granted, even the best company isn’t going to have zero turnover, but virtually every company has room to improve.
Regardless of how well an employee’s knowledge is captured, when the employee walks out the door the company has lost an expert in applying that knowledge. That’s as much of a loss as the knowledge itself.
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Capturing the knowledge before it walks out the door is important, yes, but isn’t it also important to keep it–i.e., the employee–from walking out the door in the first place? I’d like to see companies pay more attention to creating a work environment that their employees don’t want to leave. Granted, even the best company isn’t going to have zero turnover, but virtually every company has room to improve.
Regardless of how well an employee’s knowledge is captured, when the employee walks out the door the company has lost an expert in applying that knowledge. That’s as much of a loss as the knowledge itself.
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I thought they were legally REQUIRED to store all emails…
Since when does Microsoft follow the law?
You’re lucky you got out of there when you did, Robert, because the people you left behind are on a sinking ship.
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I thought they were legally REQUIRED to store all emails…
Since when does Microsoft follow the law?
You’re lucky you got out of there when you did, Robert, because the people you left behind are on a sinking ship.
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What a waste.
Didn’t you have a good groupware app, like for example a Lotus Notes database, where you could put it to share it with others…?
Hmmm, probably not 😉
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What a waste.
Didn’t you have a good groupware app, like for example a Lotus Notes database, where you could put it to share it with others…?
Hmmm, probably not 😉
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microsoft has a policy for email retention – for email/documents/etc required to be stored for legal reasons there is an obligation to do that. for email/docs/etc relating to a short term project/etc there is a different retention duration. i would think most large companies have similar policies and do not require their employees to keep email forever – esp if those companies also have legal departments looking to minimize risk exposure 🙂
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microsoft acquired groove a couple years ago and it has been rolled into office 2007 – i don’t think groove has penetrated the mass audiences at microsoft as many groups still rely on sharepoint but i would imagine with its inclusion in office 2007 there will be much more use internally over the next 6-12 months and when office 2007 releases more used externally.
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microsoft has a policy for email retention – for email/documents/etc required to be stored for legal reasons there is an obligation to do that. for email/docs/etc relating to a short term project/etc there is a different retention duration. i would think most large companies have similar policies and do not require their employees to keep email forever – esp if those companies also have legal departments looking to minimize risk exposure 🙂
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microsoft acquired groove a couple years ago and it has been rolled into office 2007 – i don’t think groove has penetrated the mass audiences at microsoft as many groups still rely on sharepoint but i would imagine with its inclusion in office 2007 there will be much more use internally over the next 6-12 months and when office 2007 releases more used externally.
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I may have a lot of email as well. I tend to store everything and elete nothing and then use Google desktop search to find what I need from current or past projects. This is a change from my last job where I deleted email if I felt at the time it was not important.
Anyway, I am of the opinion that if an employer is paying you then any email in your mailbox is theirs after you leave and I know some people will disagree with this but we are paid for knowledge so that knowledge is owned by our employer wheile we are employed there. Anytime I leave a project or a position I dump all of the email from the project into a pst file (we use Outlook on exchange) and then give it to the guys supporting the app. I get calls about this stuff later anyway (are you still getting calls from your successor Robert?) but at least this gets rid of a lot of the questions about what havppened in the past from the people that get dropped in to support apps.
Email is really usually more unofficial then the documentation around it but is often a lot more useful to the guys doing support.
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I may have a lot of email as well. I tend to store everything and elete nothing and then use Google desktop search to find what I need from current or past projects. This is a change from my last job where I deleted email if I felt at the time it was not important.
Anyway, I am of the opinion that if an employer is paying you then any email in your mailbox is theirs after you leave and I know some people will disagree with this but we are paid for knowledge so that knowledge is owned by our employer wheile we are employed there. Anytime I leave a project or a position I dump all of the email from the project into a pst file (we use Outlook on exchange) and then give it to the guys supporting the app. I get calls about this stuff later anyway (are you still getting calls from your successor Robert?) but at least this gets rid of a lot of the questions about what havppened in the past from the people that get dropped in to support apps.
Email is really usually more unofficial then the documentation around it but is often a lot more useful to the guys doing support.
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Why would you be missing emails that say which internal servers to find new Vista builds?
Do you still have access to internal resources at Microsoft?
If so, why? I’ve never heard of this being done for any other ex-employees.
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Why would you be missing emails that say which internal servers to find new Vista builds?
Do you still have access to internal resources at Microsoft?
If so, why? I’ve never heard of this being done for any other ex-employees.
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Stash: I’m not missing them, but let’s say Microsoft hires someone today, wouldn’t it be better for my resources to be handed to him or her?
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Stash: I’m not missing them, but let’s say Microsoft hires someone today, wouldn’t it be better for my resources to be handed to him or her?
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