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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I don’t get it. You’re giving your bank account username and passwords to the site. Can’t Joe Shmo behind the scenes capture this information, go into your accounts, and wreak havoc?
Something seems really iffy about this concept. It scares me.
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I don’t get it. You’re giving your bank account username and passwords to the site. Can’t Joe Shmo behind the scenes capture this information, go into your accounts, and wreak havoc?
Something seems really iffy about this concept. It scares me.
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Interesting product, though surely a major barrier in getting people to use it will be convincing them hand over their online banking details? I see there’s a page on mint.com explaining that it’s very secure, but still… online banking something most people are pretty sensitive about.
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Interesting product, though surely a major barrier in getting people to use it will be convincing them hand over their online banking details? I see there’s a page on mint.com explaining that it’s very secure, but still… online banking something most people are pretty sensitive about.
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Awesome product, awesome business model, awesome success rates (given that they’re correct), awesome video.
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Awesome product, awesome business model, awesome success rates (given that they’re correct), awesome video.
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This is really an amazing product! I sincerely hope that Mint will someday be tweaked for use in the Netherlands, where I live.
Amazing how easy the setup is and how easily understandable the data is presented.
The “Save Money” feature is worth a lot, literally!
Thanks for this interesting interview!
Cheers,
Yonga
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This is really an amazing product! I sincerely hope that Mint will someday be tweaked for use in the Netherlands, where I live.
Amazing how easy the setup is and how easily understandable the data is presented.
The “Save Money” feature is worth a lot, literally!
Thanks for this interesting interview!
Cheers,
Yonga
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Yes, the business model is somewhat “easy” to understand (assuming “they” can use all of “your” information to spot saving opportunities). But, the same holds true even for a single bank or financial institute? I mean…what if a bank decides to “buy” Mint? Againg, assuming they cannot buy only the information they need…
Can they be allowed to do so?
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Yes, the business model is somewhat “easy” to understand (assuming “they” can use all of “your” information to spot saving opportunities). But, the same holds true even for a single bank or financial institute? I mean…what if a bank decides to “buy” Mint? Againg, assuming they cannot buy only the information they need…
Can they be allowed to do so?
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good going mint! woohooo!
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good going mint! woohooo!
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It’s a great product. It’s really well-done. The only complaint I have is that it is really hard to demo to friends without showing them too much about yourself. 🙂
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It’s a great product. It’s really well-done. The only complaint I have is that it is really hard to demo to friends without showing them too much about yourself. 🙂
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I wish it could access my accounts. I’ve been clicking “Try again” since 6pm PST last night. Even at 1am PST I couldn’t get it working.
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I wish it could access my accounts. I’ve been clicking “Try again” since 6pm PST last night. Even at 1am PST I couldn’t get it working.
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Yes, the product is remarkably incapable of scaling. If it’s awesome, I wouldn’t know because it can’t connect to my bank.
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Yes, the product is remarkably incapable of scaling. If it’s awesome, I wouldn’t know because it can’t connect to my bank.
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If Mint did a little bit of research, they would have known that Yodlee already does the features that Mint claims to do.
$50K won’t be enough for the litigation fees for infringing on Yodlee’s data aggregation patents.
DW
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If Mint did a little bit of research, they would have known that Yodlee already does the features that Mint claims to do.
$50K won’t be enough for the litigation fees for infringing on Yodlee’s data aggregation patents.
DW
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It’s an awesome program
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It’s an awesome program
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Mint uses Yodlee on the backend. I doubt there will be any litigation.
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Mint uses Yodlee on the backend. I doubt there will be any litigation.
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Re DW: turns out that Mint is actually using Yodlee (just like Microsoft Money), they just add a spiffier Web 2.0 UI and a way to target tons of ads at people – all under the pretext of helping them save money.
Re the video itself: Aaron actually says that unlike Quicken, where adding a few accounts takes one hour, in Mint you can to it in 5 minutes. That’s quite bold and completely untrue. Going to Mint today, this is the message I get for adding an account (that I’ve been trying to add for 3 days now):
Mint is currently experiencing delays adding accounts.
Your accounts will continue to process in the background. It may take up to an hour for your transactions and balances to come through.
Usually linking an account takes 30-90 seconds, but since winning TechCrunch40, and being featured in PCWorld, Digg, and San Francisco Chronicle our volume has gone up over 100x.
Quicken: 1 hour — Mint: more than 3 days.
See also this post on my blog about their scalability issue:
http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2007/09/mint-not-ready-to-scale.html
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Re DW: turns out that Mint is actually using Yodlee (just like Microsoft Money), they just add a spiffier Web 2.0 UI and a way to target tons of ads at people – all under the pretext of helping them save money.
Re the video itself: Aaron actually says that unlike Quicken, where adding a few accounts takes one hour, in Mint you can to it in 5 minutes. That’s quite bold and completely untrue. Going to Mint today, this is the message I get for adding an account (that I’ve been trying to add for 3 days now):
Mint is currently experiencing delays adding accounts.
Your accounts will continue to process in the background. It may take up to an hour for your transactions and balances to come through.
Usually linking an account takes 30-90 seconds, but since winning TechCrunch40, and being featured in PCWorld, Digg, and San Francisco Chronicle our volume has gone up over 100x.
Quicken: 1 hour — Mint: more than 3 days.
See also this post on my blog about their scalability issue:
http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2007/09/mint-not-ready-to-scale.html
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Looks a lot like Wesabe to me. Except Wesabe offers an API so the features can be used outside the site. http://www.wesabe.com
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Looks a lot like Wesabe to me. Except Wesabe offers an API so the features can be used outside the site. http://www.wesabe.com
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If it’s true that Mint is using Yodlee as its data aggregating engine, where’s the value in that? They become dependent on someone else’s technology w/c is similar to Yahoo licensing Google’s search engine.
Maybe there is a business in developing pretty UIs…
DW
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If it’s true that Mint is using Yodlee as its data aggregating engine, where’s the value in that? They become dependent on someone else’s technology w/c is similar to Yahoo licensing Google’s search engine.
Maybe there is a business in developing pretty UIs…
DW
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A. Falk,
Sorry you ran into issues adding your accounts. We’ve deployed a ton of new hardware in the past 24 hours and things are speedy…you should be able to add your account in 30-120 seconds.
We ran into some scaling issues after we won TechCrunch 40, and were featured in PCWorld, Digg, and San Francisco Chronicle all on the same day. Literally 100,000 people really needed to get their finances organized on Tuesday. Apparently there _is_ a need for an effortless, automatic way to manage your finances.
Things are running smoothly now 🙂
Aaron Patzer
Founder & CEO, Mint.com
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A. Falk,
Sorry you ran into issues adding your accounts. We’ve deployed a ton of new hardware in the past 24 hours and things are speedy…you should be able to add your account in 30-120 seconds.
We ran into some scaling issues after we won TechCrunch 40, and were featured in PCWorld, Digg, and San Francisco Chronicle all on the same day. Literally 100,000 people really needed to get their finances organized on Tuesday. Apparently there _is_ a need for an effortless, automatic way to manage your finances.
Things are running smoothly now 🙂
Aaron Patzer
Founder & CEO, Mint.com
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If this amount of relatively small publicity, how do they expect to
support the volume of users Quicken and MS Money have? Sounds like they did little to no scalibility testing. But given this is the Web 2.0 space, what else is new?
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If this amount of relatively small publicity, how do they expect to
support the volume of users Quicken and MS Money have? Sounds like they did little to no scalibility testing. But given this is the Web 2.0 space, what else is new?
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Still no answer as far as Joe Shmo behind the scenes misusing my banking information.
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Still no answer as far as Joe Shmo behind the scenes misusing my banking information.
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Dear Aaron Patzer:
I truly appreciate your response to my comment. And I immediately went back to mint.com tonight to give it another try. I was indeed able to add 1 (one) account – the other three show the same errors.
Oh, and btw, you now owe me $35,977 which your site just promised I could save by switching to CapitalOne:
http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2007/09/mint-pomises-to-save-me-35977.html
Not a joke – I’ve posted actual screenshots and used my own actual credit card account.
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Dear Aaron Patzer:
I truly appreciate your response to my comment. And I immediately went back to mint.com tonight to give it another try. I was indeed able to add 1 (one) account – the other three show the same errors.
Oh, and btw, you now owe me $35,977 which your site just promised I could save by switching to CapitalOne:
http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2007/09/mint-pomises-to-save-me-35977.html
Not a joke – I’ve posted actual screenshots and used my own actual credit card account.
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Well, I was never able to add an account as a beta tester, and I STILL can’t add any of my 4 banks, or 4 credit cards. I’m getting ready to abandon it all together.
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Well, I was never able to add an account as a beta tester, and I STILL can’t add any of my 4 banks, or 4 credit cards. I’m getting ready to abandon it all together.
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I don’t normally think much of the register’s content, but this time they are 150% on the money:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/reg40_launch/
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I don’t normally think much of the register’s content, but this time they are 150% on the money:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/reg40_launch/
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@16 my guess is those 100k are basically tire kickers. Will be interesting to see how stckey they are after a month. I would’t start extrapolating just yet.
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@16 my guess is those 100k are basically tire kickers. Will be interesting to see how stckey they are after a month. I would’t start extrapolating just yet.
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Great idea, but extremely flawed execution. I cannot add major institutions such as citibank, capitol one and American Express. I think that Mint should have stayed under the covers until they had more of these bugs worked out.
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Great idea, but extremely flawed execution. I cannot add major institutions such as citibank, capitol one and American Express. I think that Mint should have stayed under the covers until they had more of these bugs worked out.
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Guys common, dont you know bank of america has similar service on their online website? Its exactly the same data except for the tips that Mint gives you. I would be very wary to hand over my personal data to some startup, instead I would go to my bank and do the same thing.
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Guys common, dont you know bank of america has similar service on their online website? Its exactly the same data except for the tips that Mint gives you. I would be very wary to hand over my personal data to some startup, instead I would go to my bank and do the same thing.
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The only reason why this can work, is the low banking security that is used by US banks online. I’m in the Netherlands and this would never work because in order for me to login to my bank account online there is no username/password, rather I have an e-dentifer which is a handheld keypad which I insert my atm card. I then need to enter my atm card pin code in the e-dentifier in order to get into the e-dentifier. Then the website gives me a code to type in and the e-dentifier which responds with another code which I type into the website. So in order to login I need to use my atm card, know my atm pin, and do a security challenge with the e-dentifier.
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The only reason why this can work, is the low banking security that is used by US banks online. I’m in the Netherlands and this would never work because in order for me to login to my bank account online there is no username/password, rather I have an e-dentifer which is a handheld keypad which I insert my atm card. I then need to enter my atm card pin code in the e-dentifier in order to get into the e-dentifier. Then the website gives me a code to type in and the e-dentifier which responds with another code which I type into the website. So in order to login I need to use my atm card, know my atm pin, and do a security challenge with the e-dentifier.
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I love the “high technology comment.” High technology is launching shit out of the earth’s orbit, guessing a tag is NOT high tech. Not to mention, I seriously doubt those patents will be granted, there’s prior art all over the place.
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I love the “high technology comment.” High technology is launching shit out of the earth’s orbit, guessing a tag is NOT high tech. Not to mention, I seriously doubt those patents will be granted, there’s prior art all over the place.
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marc & team are certainly smart guys & i’m sure they’ll be successful, most especially with folks like you & fred & OATV behind them.
that said, i’m also confident there are other models for personal finance that can work quite well on the web. guess we’ll find out 😉
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marc & team are certainly smart guys & i’m sure they’ll be successful, most especially with folks like you & fred & OATV behind them.
that said, i’m also confident there are other models for personal finance that can work quite well on the web. guess we’ll find out 😉
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Well, I was never able to add an account as a beta tester, and I STILL can’t add any of my 4 banks, or 4 credit cards. I’m getting ready to abandon it all together
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Well, I was never able to add an account as a beta tester, and I STILL can’t add any of my 4 banks, or 4 credit cards. I’m getting ready to abandon it all together
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