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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Regarding Ruby on Rails, it’s a framework which allows programmers to use the Ruby programming language, and not a language in of itself. Sorry for being a semantics stickler. The New RoR site is indeed very spiffy 😉
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Regarding Ruby on Rails, it’s a framework which allows programmers to use the Ruby programming language, and not a language in of itself. Sorry for being a semantics stickler. The New RoR site is indeed very spiffy 😉
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I don’t think your shtick about listening is ever going to get old. So many people and companies can use that advice.
I frequent that topic during many consulting sessions, and often look back to see what I’ve blogged about because it seams like history repeating itself so often – even with new, tech stuff.
http://tweblog.wordpress.com/tag/listening/
Now, if we can just get them to listen to you. 😉
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I don’t think your shtick about listening is ever going to get old. So many people and companies can use that advice.
I frequent that topic during many consulting sessions, and often look back to see what I’ve blogged about because it seams like history repeating itself so often – even with new, tech stuff.
http://tweblog.wordpress.com/tag/listening/
Now, if we can just get them to listen to you. 😉
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I read a pretty comprehensive article somewhere recently that stated how it’s beneficial for the company to give out free products to people (bloggers) with a voice, regardless of what they have to say. Similarly, Sprint gave me a phone for their past Ambassador program and I slammed them pretty hard, but I still they they benefited from all my readers knowing about their new program/phone.
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I read a pretty comprehensive article somewhere recently that stated how it’s beneficial for the company to give out free products to people (bloggers) with a voice, regardless of what they have to say. Similarly, Sprint gave me a phone for their past Ambassador program and I slammed them pretty hard, but I still they they benefited from all my readers knowing about their new program/phone.
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I can’t believe a blogger accepted a sprint phone. Sprint phones are notoriously bad.
Scoble,
Did you get a free Sonos for this link on your blog? Or is this an attempt to get Sonos to send you one?
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I can’t believe a blogger accepted a sprint phone. Sprint phones are notoriously bad.
Scoble,
Did you get a free Sonos for this link on your blog? Or is this an attempt to get Sonos to send you one?
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Sprint “pitched” me, then never sent me the phone!
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Sprint “pitched” me, then never sent me the phone!
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If I remember correctly, Scoble used to have a free Sonos, but gave it away before he gave it a plug. (While they aren’t paying you with a sonos to promote it, they are letting you rent it for free. I still like your style.)
A blog post that includes Joel and Ruby wouldn’t be complete without his recent post on ruby.
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If I remember correctly, Scoble used to have a free Sonos, but gave it away before he gave it a plug. (While they aren’t paying you with a sonos to promote it, they are letting you rent it for free. I still like your style.)
A blog post that includes Joel and Ruby wouldn’t be complete without his recent post on ruby.
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This is hilarious. If your product sucks, keep it away from geeks and bloggers at all costs.
Advertise in dead tree publications. Advertise on network TV. Anywhere smart technical people aren’t.
And hope like heck they won’t find you.
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This is hilarious. If your product sucks, keep it away from geeks and bloggers at all costs.
Advertise in dead tree publications. Advertise on network TV. Anywhere smart technical people aren’t.
And hope like heck they won’t find you.
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I was a little appalled by Sprint’s tactics. They contacted me by a sort of mass mail out of the blue offering me essentially about $500 of free service. I was a bit indignant as a reporter. Bloggers can run by different rules, especially if they aren’t writing about products or pretending to be objective or if they disclose the relationship. Or other conditions. But I thought Sprint was pretty blatantly saying, hey, here’s $500 worth of free stuff!
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I was a little appalled by Sprint’s tactics. They contacted me by a sort of mass mail out of the blue offering me essentially about $500 of free service. I was a bit indignant as a reporter. Bloggers can run by different rules, especially if they aren’t writing about products or pretending to be objective or if they disclose the relationship. Or other conditions. But I thought Sprint was pretty blatantly saying, hey, here’s $500 worth of free stuff!
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If the product is good this will have a great effect on the brand value of the product in market.
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If the product is good this will have a great effect on the brand value of the product in market.
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Maybe, just maybe, you pegged it. Sprint listens to Joel, improves its next product, and this turns into a win. If so, they’ve just saved tens of thousands of dollars hiring Joel to do a professional design review for them.
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Maybe, just maybe, you pegged it. Sprint listens to Joel, improves its next product, and this turns into a win. If so, they’ve just saved tens of thousands of dollars hiring Joel to do a professional design review for them.
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you don’t know a framework from a programming language and you have the nerve to call yourself a geek?
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you don’t know a framework from a programming language and you have the nerve to call yourself a geek?
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Any vendor worth their salt will give/lend out Demo products to applications guys. If it is a bad product, they will of course want to charge you for the product. Here is where the ethics comes into play.
The applications guy makes sure they get the product back to the vendor when the testing is over. If they have time they tell the bad product guys the issues in a report. If not, they ask them to stop by for a short review of the findings. The smart guys send the tech guys in to fix the issues for the next round.
When hundreds of thousands of $$ are released to a vendor that has provided free trial equipment, then transparent systems keep you above reproach. It keeps the application guys from winding up in a blogg or press or before congress explaining the relationship.
It hard to argue with ” because the other guys stuff was a piece of crap” when it comes to purchase/launch.
I agree don’t send crap out to Bloggers or anyone unless you are going to fix the issues.
The guys with the crap that listens will get the business if they fix the issues. Chrysler is a good example. So is Japan (transistor radio days)
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Any vendor worth their salt will give/lend out Demo products to applications guys. If it is a bad product, they will of course want to charge you for the product. Here is where the ethics comes into play.
The applications guy makes sure they get the product back to the vendor when the testing is over. If they have time they tell the bad product guys the issues in a report. If not, they ask them to stop by for a short review of the findings. The smart guys send the tech guys in to fix the issues for the next round.
When hundreds of thousands of $$ are released to a vendor that has provided free trial equipment, then transparent systems keep you above reproach. It keeps the application guys from winding up in a blogg or press or before congress explaining the relationship.
It hard to argue with ” because the other guys stuff was a piece of crap” when it comes to purchase/launch.
I agree don’t send crap out to Bloggers or anyone unless you are going to fix the issues.
The guys with the crap that listens will get the business if they fix the issues. Chrysler is a good example. So is Japan (transistor radio days)
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>>Now, if I had a sucky product (or was the #3 search engine like Microsoft) I’d keep bringing influentials in to LISTEN to them and improve the product…
Now, if only MS listens to the folks about Vista… 🙂
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>>Now, if I had a sucky product (or was the #3 search engine like Microsoft) I’d keep bringing influentials in to LISTEN to them and improve the product…
Now, if only MS listens to the folks about Vista… 🙂
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Mr.Scoble, you’ve hit the nail on the wall!! But corporates are too complacent to even consider the opinions of bloggers, the blogosphere is really influential, especially on google.
If I want to buy something, first thing I’ll search is google for criticism and blogs will hit!
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Mr.Scoble, you’ve hit the nail on the wall!! But corporates are too complacent to even consider the opinions of bloggers, the blogosphere is really influential, especially on google.
If I want to buy something, first thing I’ll search is google for criticism and blogs will hit!
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Woah woah woah!! Slow down on the “don’t send free stuff” highway there. Some of us don’t get ANYTHING sent to us at all. Honestly, if someone sent me something for free, I’d take it. Even a T-shirt. However, a thumb drive will do nicely. 😉
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Woah woah woah!! Slow down on the “don’t send free stuff” highway there. Some of us don’t get ANYTHING sent to us at all. Honestly, if someone sent me something for free, I’d take it. Even a T-shirt. However, a thumb drive will do nicely. 😉
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I do not really even get this.If you product is good,then it should speak for itself.Word of mouth will get it sold.
If the product is bad then it is obvious why you would not send it to anyone.
This really smacks of a way to avoid taxes by marking this off as advertisement.
AXE
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I do not really even get this.If you product is good,then it should speak for itself.Word of mouth will get it sold.
If the product is bad then it is obvious why you would not send it to anyone.
This really smacks of a way to avoid taxes by marking this off as advertisement.
AXE
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I’m not sure if I made myself clear.
I want free stuff.
There I said it. And I won’t take it back.
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I’m not sure if I made myself clear.
I want free stuff.
There I said it. And I won’t take it back.
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“I want free stuff.
There I said it. And I won’t take it back.”
Agreed Send me free stuff
http://www.studentsandtablets.wordpress.com
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“I want free stuff.
There I said it. And I won’t take it back.”
Agreed Send me free stuff
http://www.studentsandtablets.wordpress.com
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“Woah woah woah!! Slow down on the “don’t send free stuff” highway there. Some of us don’t get ANYTHING sent to us at all. Honestly, if someone sent me something for free, I’d take it. Even a T-shirt. However, a thumb drive will do nicely. ”
Haha! I want free stuff too! 🙂
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“Woah woah woah!! Slow down on the “don’t send free stuff” highway there. Some of us don’t get ANYTHING sent to us at all. Honestly, if someone sent me something for free, I’d take it. Even a T-shirt. However, a thumb drive will do nicely. ”
Haha! I want free stuff too! 🙂
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I guess be thankful for the free stuff, but crap is crap. Free or not free, a bad product is still a bad product. Rule of thumb, don’t give crappy products to us bloggers. We talk too much.
-gamehawk
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I guess be thankful for the free stuff, but crap is crap. Free or not free, a bad product is still a bad product. Rule of thumb, don’t give crappy products to us bloggers. We talk too much.
-gamehawk
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I’ve actually seen claims saying that Ruby works best for internal applications. I wonder if anyone has any real data on the use of Ruby for internal applications vs. consumer web sites.
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I’ve actually seen claims saying that Ruby works best for internal applications. I wonder if anyone has any real data on the use of Ruby for internal applications vs. consumer web sites.
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While it would be nice if they would take the feedback from something like this and put it to good use, I doubt that such feedback will ever reach anyone who can do anything about improving the product. It is quite likely that a scheme like this is being concocted purely by marketers looking for cheap blurbs, who wouldn’t know feedback if it smacked them in the face with a microphone held next to a loudspeaker. Even if they do listen in this case, it strikes me as being a particularly lousy method of getting product feedback anyway, especially when there are much better channels for such things. In a case like this, a company would be a lot better off conducting a controlled product trial, which not only allows them to get the specific feedback they’re looking for, but (in the case of a pre-release product) can also be NDA’d. I actually participated in such a trial recently for Sprint (I’ve been a customer of theirs for over six years now) and although I don’t know if my feedback made much difference (it was very close to the release of the product) it’s a lot more effective and less risky way of getting the product into the hands of people who can tell them what’s wrong with it.
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While it would be nice if they would take the feedback from something like this and put it to good use, I doubt that such feedback will ever reach anyone who can do anything about improving the product. It is quite likely that a scheme like this is being concocted purely by marketers looking for cheap blurbs, who wouldn’t know feedback if it smacked them in the face with a microphone held next to a loudspeaker. Even if they do listen in this case, it strikes me as being a particularly lousy method of getting product feedback anyway, especially when there are much better channels for such things. In a case like this, a company would be a lot better off conducting a controlled product trial, which not only allows them to get the specific feedback they’re looking for, but (in the case of a pre-release product) can also be NDA’d. I actually participated in such a trial recently for Sprint (I’ve been a customer of theirs for over six years now) and although I don’t know if my feedback made much difference (it was very close to the release of the product) it’s a lot more effective and less risky way of getting the product into the hands of people who can tell them what’s wrong with it.
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it’s interesting to note that Microsoft, apparantly, are NOT sending Zune players to blogger (instead giving them away on Ellen’s show.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/zune-in-the-wildon-the-ellen-degeneres-show-202070.php
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it’s interesting to note that Microsoft, apparantly, are NOT sending Zune players to blogger (instead giving them away on Ellen’s show.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/zune-in-the-wildon-the-ellen-degeneres-show-202070.php
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the main point of the post aside, sonos seems like an ok concept to me until you lose your remote somewhere in your house…. then what?
and the price?…1 rmeote + 2 zone players at abt $1k?….ummm yeah its a prepackaged solution..but its pretty pricey….
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the main point of the post aside, sonos seems like an ok concept to me until you lose your remote somewhere in your house…. then what?
and the price?…1 rmeote + 2 zone players at abt $1k?….ummm yeah its a prepackaged solution..but its pretty pricey….
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If you have got a great product or service it’s always a good idea to let people “test drive” it. If you got a lousy product or service it’s always a bad idea to let people “test drive” it. If you have got an OK product or service it’s always a good idea to get out of business and do something else.
André Hedetoft
Geek Movie Director
Just created a game where you get to play with my real life over at http://www.andrehedetoft.com in the quest of turning me into the obvious geek movie director!
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If you have got a great product or service it’s always a good idea to let people “test drive” it. If you got a lousy product or service it’s always a bad idea to let people “test drive” it. If you have got an OK product or service it’s always a good idea to get out of business and do something else.
André Hedetoft
Geek Movie Director
Just created a game where you get to play with my real life over at http://www.andrehedetoft.com in the quest of turning me into the obvious geek movie director!
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I tend to think that for the most part people have been conditioned into thinking (quite rightly through experience) that if it says freebie then they will automatically receive goods which otherwise cannot be sold for whatever reason and are of an inferior quality. We are constantly bombarded through the media and other outlets that if an offer is to ‘good to be true then it probably is’ – trouble is that sometimes great offers do come along and are immediately dismissed just for this reason!
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I tend to think that for the most part people have been conditioned into thinking (quite rightly through experience) that if it says freebie then they will automatically receive goods which otherwise cannot be sold for whatever reason and are of an inferior quality. We are constantly bombarded through the media and other outlets that if an offer is to ‘good to be true then it probably is’ – trouble is that sometimes great offers do come along and are immediately dismissed just for this reason!
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