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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You’re right about this one for sure. You may be a big Twitter fan, but likewise you are fan of other things. Rants aside, you cover quite the breadth of topics. But I do enjoy seeing you get wound up on things. Ha.
Maybe she’s just jealous of all of your twitterbuds. 🙂
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You’re right about this one for sure. You may be a big Twitter fan, but likewise you are fan of other things. Rants aside, you cover quite the breadth of topics. But I do enjoy seeing you get wound up on things. Ha.
Maybe she’s just jealous of all of your twitterbuds. 🙂
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I don’t know about market-speak, but the incessant fascination with the latest web-doohickey of the day seems to be a particular high-tech form of navel gazing. It is the funny sort of extremely public and at the same time quite insular tribe of fanatics who think that the world revolves around what goes on in a collection of servers connected by wires which is the most depressing part of it all. No one but the members of this tribe try to keep up with what the tribe is doing. No one outside of the tribe cares.
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I don’t know about market-speak, but the incessant fascination with the latest web-doohickey of the day seems to be a particular high-tech form of navel gazing. It is the funny sort of extremely public and at the same time quite insular tribe of fanatics who think that the world revolves around what goes on in a collection of servers connected by wires which is the most depressing part of it all. No one but the members of this tribe try to keep up with what the tribe is doing. No one outside of the tribe cares.
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@eric… Give you points from being “right”… But, THIS *IS* the tribe. Now, get outta our hut! 😉
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@eric… Give you points from being “right”… But, THIS *IS* the tribe. Now, get outta our hut! 😉
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Why do you think it is always about you Rob?
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Why do you think it is always about you Rob?
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Sam: who else is it about? 🙂
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As usual Shelley hits a grand-slam, and (as is usual also) you miss the point wholesale, as it’s not the tools themselves, it’s the ‘preaching-to-the-choir’ hyperbole, or the nicely-coined “fooflah”.
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Sam: who else is it about? 🙂
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As usual Shelley hits a grand-slam, and (as is usual also) you miss the point wholesale, as it’s not the tools themselves, it’s the ‘preaching-to-the-choir’ hyperbole, or the nicely-coined “fooflah”.
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Ahh, good, the world is right again. Christopher Coulter is back on the “Scoble is a loser” point of view side of the field.
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Ahh, good, the world is right again. Christopher Coulter is back on the “Scoble is a loser” point of view side of the field.
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eric: the tribe is damn big. You in or out? 🙂
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Robert,
You make the assumption that Shelley must be targeting you and then you make a strong case that she’s targeting you unfairly.
She won’t be happy with that “strawman” technique and thus another blog war escalates because well meaning people feel compelled to produce.
Personally, I like both Shelley’s work and yours. The resulting sparks only serve to illustrate the on-going comflict between researching, creating and marketing/selling of technology.
Each of you is an shining example of each point of view and yet, doomed, to not understand each other.
But it makes for good reading. :^)
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eric: the tribe is damn big. You in or out? 🙂
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Robert,
You make the assumption that Shelley must be targeting you and then you make a strong case that she’s targeting you unfairly.
She won’t be happy with that “strawman” technique and thus another blog war escalates because well meaning people feel compelled to produce.
Personally, I like both Shelley’s work and yours. The resulting sparks only serve to illustrate the on-going comflict between researching, creating and marketing/selling of technology.
Each of you is an shining example of each point of view and yet, doomed, to not understand each other.
But it makes for good reading. :^)
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I like a good scrap. I agree with Powers that there’s really nothing new on a tech level to Twitter or many other “social apps”. But somebody put them out there and lots of people are using/enjoying them. You, Robert, are probably an example of several of ways Twitter may be used. That’s great.
I don’t get her point that somehow new,meaningful, advances in technology will be missed due to participation or interest in things like Twitter. I expect to hear about such technology through channels like Twitter. I’ll probably get some user feedback, too.
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I like a good scrap. I agree with Powers that there’s really nothing new on a tech level to Twitter or many other “social apps”. But somebody put them out there and lots of people are using/enjoying them. You, Robert, are probably an example of several of ways Twitter may be used. That’s great.
I don’t get her point that somehow new,meaningful, advances in technology will be missed due to participation or interest in things like Twitter. I expect to hear about such technology through channels like Twitter. I’ll probably get some user feedback, too.
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I think Shelley has it about right actually. Twitter is not the problem though.
There is a problem with giddy business types hyping every thing “2.0”. Things that come to mind:
– wikis as business content management solution (as if: if people don’t communicate within a business, software won’t magically solve it)
– the ‘social graph’ – a clumsy expression that’s become something that everybody is now ‘leveraging’. What that actually means in practical terms is almost impossible to find out
– pointless vendor sports. Sorry, but I don’t care about the latest strategic move in the multi-dimensional Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook game. It’s not just not interesting, it’s mind-numbing to the shoot your brains out with a shotgun degree.
A thinking exercise. Why is it that if you Google for web 2.0 site:techcrunch.com you get over 17,600 results while if you search for web 2.0 site:tbray.org you get 156 results – mostly in quotation marks or with an ironic trademark symbol afer them. Similarly, you get 167 results from Simon Willison’s blog. You get 310 results on Sam Ruby’s blog. It’s the same for other developers. Most of the developers I read don’t have time for Web 2.0 – it’s the name of an overpriced conference, and that is about it.
Why is it that developers don’t use the term Web 2.0? I mean, Tim Bray is one of the people who bootstraped Web 2.0 with his work on XML. Perhaps because it is all a clumsy bit of fudge that makes actual technological change and advance like grid computing, decent search algorithms and advances in Semantic Web/microformats etc. and lumps it together with, oh, being able to post comments on newspaper articles.
I think a fair degree of cynicism is required to be a good software developer.
I used to read TechCrunch and TechMeme and all the other similar places – ReadWriteWeb, Mashable and a lot of tech pundit blogs. I haven’t bothered for a long time, because it’s gotten seriously dull and has no relevance to what I sit down and do in my text editor every day. It’s just people squabbling over phrases like “social graph” and “Web 2.0” which seem to have less and less meaning by the day.
Anyway, just my opinion. YMMV.
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I think Shelley has it about right actually. Twitter is not the problem though.
There is a problem with giddy business types hyping every thing “2.0”. Things that come to mind:
– wikis as business content management solution (as if: if people don’t communicate within a business, software won’t magically solve it)
– the ‘social graph’ – a clumsy expression that’s become something that everybody is now ‘leveraging’. What that actually means in practical terms is almost impossible to find out
– pointless vendor sports. Sorry, but I don’t care about the latest strategic move in the multi-dimensional Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook game. It’s not just not interesting, it’s mind-numbing to the shoot your brains out with a shotgun degree.
A thinking exercise. Why is it that if you Google for web 2.0 site:techcrunch.com you get over 17,600 results while if you search for web 2.0 site:tbray.org you get 156 results – mostly in quotation marks or with an ironic trademark symbol afer them. Similarly, you get 167 results from Simon Willison’s blog. You get 310 results on Sam Ruby’s blog. It’s the same for other developers. Most of the developers I read don’t have time for Web 2.0 – it’s the name of an overpriced conference, and that is about it.
Why is it that developers don’t use the term Web 2.0? I mean, Tim Bray is one of the people who bootstraped Web 2.0 with his work on XML. Perhaps because it is all a clumsy bit of fudge that makes actual technological change and advance like grid computing, decent search algorithms and advances in Semantic Web/microformats etc. and lumps it together with, oh, being able to post comments on newspaper articles.
I think a fair degree of cynicism is required to be a good software developer.
I used to read TechCrunch and TechMeme and all the other similar places – ReadWriteWeb, Mashable and a lot of tech pundit blogs. I haven’t bothered for a long time, because it’s gotten seriously dull and has no relevance to what I sit down and do in my text editor every day. It’s just people squabbling over phrases like “social graph” and “Web 2.0” which seem to have less and less meaning by the day.
Anyway, just my opinion. YMMV.
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Tom’s point above is quite correct by and large, but specifically speaking to Twitter, if anything it is underhyped. Or to put it differently, if there was less “web 2.0” geek marketing speak associated with it, it’s a brilliant and very useful service.
Case in point, and this is not the first example, Supercomputing 2007. SC07 is currently going on in Reno and it is hardly your usual web 2.0 fanboy conference. A number of people are tweeting sessions, newly released hardware platforms, key topics from talks and posters, etc. One person even reached out to me (I don’t know the person) and asked me if there were specific subjects I was interested in. I am not in Reno (in Seattle), but I have a decent idea of what’s going on.
At every conference I have attended this year (of which only one would qualify as a web 2.0 one), I have used twitter to communicate with others there and with people interested but not there. It’s difficult to beat that.
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Tom’s point above is quite correct by and large, but specifically speaking to Twitter, if anything it is underhyped. Or to put it differently, if there was less “web 2.0” geek marketing speak associated with it, it’s a brilliant and very useful service.
Case in point, and this is not the first example, Supercomputing 2007. SC07 is currently going on in Reno and it is hardly your usual web 2.0 fanboy conference. A number of people are tweeting sessions, newly released hardware platforms, key topics from talks and posters, etc. One person even reached out to me (I don’t know the person) and asked me if there were specific subjects I was interested in. I am not in Reno (in Seattle), but I have a decent idea of what’s going on.
At every conference I have attended this year (of which only one would qualify as a web 2.0 one), I have used twitter to communicate with others there and with people interested but not there. It’s difficult to beat that.
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Tom: that’s really unfair. TechCrunch talks about new companies and new products. Tim talks about some, sometimes, but pretty infrequently and certainly not in depth like TechCrunch does.
Maybe you’d like my link blog better. I generally don’t put the snits about Web 2.0 or stuff like that on there.
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Tom: that’s really unfair. TechCrunch talks about new companies and new products. Tim talks about some, sometimes, but pretty infrequently and certainly not in depth like TechCrunch does.
Maybe you’d like my link blog better. I generally don’t put the snits about Web 2.0 or stuff like that on there.
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I posted over at burningbird, however to say again here, maybe because we’re all in the same echosphere? Ever notice how much we like talking about the revolution when others just sorta DO. (Take a YouTuber for example who just sorta -does-) We’re talking to people talking about the talking. No really, it’s silly.
Have you ever wondered if the linkblog is an impersonal medium? It’s just so thrown around like the Answer To Everything (like your phone number, for example).
We can cite these isolated examples of this or that or this video or that video but you know what? The whole thing feels all empty.
I’m fully on the side of those that feel the space has lost meaning (but hey, GREAT promotional link loving!). And I say that from the perspective of someone who can certainly out-Web 2.0 even then best of them.
Maybe we can coin a new term of ‘Social Void’?
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I posted over at burningbird, however to say again here, maybe because we’re all in the same echosphere? Ever notice how much we like talking about the revolution when others just sorta DO. (Take a YouTuber for example who just sorta -does-) We’re talking to people talking about the talking. No really, it’s silly.
Have you ever wondered if the linkblog is an impersonal medium? It’s just so thrown around like the Answer To Everything (like your phone number, for example).
We can cite these isolated examples of this or that or this video or that video but you know what? The whole thing feels all empty.
I’m fully on the side of those that feel the space has lost meaning (but hey, GREAT promotional link loving!). And I say that from the perspective of someone who can certainly out-Web 2.0 even then best of them.
Maybe we can coin a new term of ‘Social Void’?
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Eric? Who’s talking and not doing? I read 700 feeds every night and put the best 50 to 100 items on my link blog EVERY NIGHT. I post a video EVERY DAY. And have for more than the past year. Not to mention posting to Kyte. Twitter. Facebook. And other places.
Again, I have no idea what the heck you’re talking about. Oh, you are talking about yourself and Shelley? Fine. Leave me out of it.
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Eric? Who’s talking and not doing? I read 700 feeds every night and put the best 50 to 100 items on my link blog EVERY NIGHT. I post a video EVERY DAY. And have for more than the past year. Not to mention posting to Kyte. Twitter. Facebook. And other places.
Again, I have no idea what the heck you’re talking about. Oh, you are talking about yourself and Shelley? Fine. Leave me out of it.
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I don’t think it’s unfair, Robert. I’m just putting my experience out there – not attacking anyone. (Well, maybe TechCrunch a little bit, but hey). And I don’t think Shelley is attacking you either.
We’re all friends here.
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I don’t think it’s unfair, Robert. I’m just putting my experience out there – not attacking anyone. (Well, maybe TechCrunch a little bit, but hey). And I don’t think Shelley is attacking you either.
We’re all friends here.
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Scoble: she does have a point.
For example, you only recognized the value of Twitter, and Facebook, months after the services opened themselves (in case of Facebook, which has been open since September 2006).
Only when there was a large enough crowd, you joined up, headed to the front, “Hey look at me, this service is great!”
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Tom: well, it’s funny, the ones I’ve heard talking about Web 2.0 lately has been Oracle, Adobe, and other big companies.
But looking at my link blog I don’t see the words “Web 2.0” all that often. Most of the blog posts I put up there are just about interesting new technologies or services.
The reason I don’t think it’s a fair comparison is that TechCrunch talks about new companies. That’s what he does. Every day. Tim Bray? He writes all over the map and doesn’t see that it’s his job to talk about new companies and/or services. So OF COURSE he wouldn’t talk about Web 2.0.
Me? I just hate the words “Web 2.0” too, but I don’t let that blind me to the value that is coming out of all these blogs and journalistic outlets.
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Scoble: she does have a point.
For example, you only recognized the value of Twitter, and Facebook, months after the services opened themselves (in case of Facebook, which has been open since September 2006).
Only when there was a large enough crowd, you joined up, headed to the front, “Hey look at me, this service is great!”
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Tom: well, it’s funny, the ones I’ve heard talking about Web 2.0 lately has been Oracle, Adobe, and other big companies.
But looking at my link blog I don’t see the words “Web 2.0” all that often. Most of the blog posts I put up there are just about interesting new technologies or services.
The reason I don’t think it’s a fair comparison is that TechCrunch talks about new companies. That’s what he does. Every day. Tim Bray? He writes all over the map and doesn’t see that it’s his job to talk about new companies and/or services. So OF COURSE he wouldn’t talk about Web 2.0.
Me? I just hate the words “Web 2.0” too, but I don’t let that blind me to the value that is coming out of all these blogs and journalistic outlets.
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Tiago: that’s bullpucky too.
With Twitter THE VALUE of the service is when enough people you care about get on it. I was among the first talking about it. I talked about it last November, before traffic really started taking off. http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/20/know-where-scoble-is-at-every-single-minute-of-the-day/ — I was among the first on the Internet to talk about it. Not the first, but among the first. My job isn’t to be first, it is to tell people about good stuff and be ahead of early adopter trends.
With Facebook THE VALUE TO ME was when the applications showed up. I joined within 10 days of the F8 announcement and that’s what got me hyped up. You’re going to hold my feet to the fire for not hyping it up back when it was a service only for college students? That demonstrates why no one listens to you when you say something is cool and useful.
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Tiago: that’s bullpucky too.
With Twitter THE VALUE of the service is when enough people you care about get on it. I was among the first talking about it. I talked about it last November, before traffic really started taking off. http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/20/know-where-scoble-is-at-every-single-minute-of-the-day/ — I was among the first on the Internet to talk about it. Not the first, but among the first. My job isn’t to be first, it is to tell people about good stuff and be ahead of early adopter trends.
With Facebook THE VALUE TO ME was when the applications showed up. I joined within 10 days of the F8 announcement and that’s what got me hyped up. You’re going to hold my feet to the fire for not hyping it up back when it was a service only for college students? That demonstrates why no one listens to you when you say something is cool and useful.
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Okay, I take it back, everything is fine.
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Okay, I take it back, everything is fine.
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Robert, this wasn’t about you.
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Robert, this wasn’t about you.
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Robert
1) this wasn’t about you
2) you linkblog replicates most of the stuff I read on RSS daily, so why bother suscribing? At least techmem isn’t a linkbaiter…
3) your videos don’t work for me, because I prefer text to voice/visual. And generally they are too long
4) being the first does not mean you are the best, or even the most relevant
tq
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Robert
1) this wasn’t about you
2) you linkblog replicates most of the stuff I read on RSS daily, so why bother suscribing? At least techmem isn’t a linkbaiter…
3) your videos don’t work for me, because I prefer text to voice/visual. And generally they are too long
4) being the first does not mean you are the best, or even the most relevant
tq
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I hate the term Web2.0 too, but it’s all we’ve got as a generic label for “cool new Web-based stuff”, of which there’s quite a bit. So I actually spend quite a bit of time making speeches and customer visits where “Web 2.0” is on the agenda. For example, I did a keynote this morning at the Web2.0 Expo in Tokyo.
Plus, I think Twitter is a big deal & use it regularly.
But I think I share the skeptics’ concerns too: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/04/Intimate-Internet
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I hate the term Web2.0 too, but it’s all we’ve got as a generic label for “cool new Web-based stuff”, of which there’s quite a bit. So I actually spend quite a bit of time making speeches and customer visits where “Web 2.0” is on the agenda. For example, I did a keynote this morning at the Web2.0 Expo in Tokyo.
Plus, I think Twitter is a big deal & use it regularly.
But I think I share the skeptics’ concerns too: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/04/Intimate-Internet
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tq: you have enough time to read 700+ feeds looking for killer stuff? Great for you. Most people aren’t like me and you.
I can just see you watching TV and yelling at the screen “your football game is too long.” Heheh.
Being first might not mean you’re most relevant or even best, but it does increase the chances you’ll get into the Wall Street Journal by about 1000x.
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tq: you have enough time to read 700+ feeds looking for killer stuff? Great for you. Most people aren’t like me and you.
I can just see you watching TV and yelling at the screen “your football game is too long.” Heheh.
Being first might not mean you’re most relevant or even best, but it does increase the chances you’ll get into the Wall Street Journal by about 1000x.
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Robert – you are absolutely right – I do think football games are too long 🙂
I take your point on the WSJ comment.
tq
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Robert – you are absolutely right – I do think football games are too long 🙂
I take your point on the WSJ comment.
tq
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Everyone’s different with their likes and dislikes. If everyone found Robert’s content boring, bad, etc. hardly anyone would show up.
But people Do show up… and come back! I being one of them! 🙂 I like the long videos. I like the information on the latest tech items. I like the interviews with all those interesting people!
Some people won’t and won’t visit. Some will visit but never come back. But there has to be Something here that brings people over and over again. It’s not perfect… but nothing/no one is!
Thanks for the blog and the Scoble Show Robert.
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Everyone’s different with their likes and dislikes. If everyone found Robert’s content boring, bad, etc. hardly anyone would show up.
But people Do show up… and come back! I being one of them! 🙂 I like the long videos. I like the information on the latest tech items. I like the interviews with all those interesting people!
Some people won’t and won’t visit. Some will visit but never come back. But there has to be Something here that brings people over and over again. It’s not perfect… but nothing/no one is!
Thanks for the blog and the Scoble Show Robert.
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A gracious person would acknowledge their mistake, Robert, as well as my comment pointing such out. They might even apologize for the misconception, as well as sending several visitors to my web page with the same misconception.
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A gracious person would acknowledge their mistake, Robert, as well as my comment pointing such out. They might even apologize for the misconception, as well as sending several visitors to my web page with the same misconception.
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