Microsoft PR guy trash talks Apple

Ahh, now you know why I still read my feeds. TechMeme doesn’t catch stuff like this, invaluable as it may be.

Frank Shaw works for Waggener Edstrom and heads the Microsoft account and has his take on Apple’s week at MacWorld.

I agree with his analysis and I too had the reaction “Apple’s doing a book reader” after Steve Jobs told a reporter that the Kindle would fail because no one reads books (he said the same thing about video on the iPod, remember?)

Along these lines, I can’t believe how some companies treat bloggers. Target, for shame! I guess I’m not a “core guest.” Funny enough I once had a Target credit card cause I spent so much money in Targets.

The funniest thing at the Crunchies

Last night I took Patrick to the Crunchies, where we sat in the last row. Definitely the highlight of the show was when Apple won a Crunchie for the iPhone. Problem was that Mike Arrington doesn’t have any pull at Apple — they refused to send anyone to pick up the award.

So, who picked up the award? Fake Steve Jobs, of course, only he did it through a video. Beware of the language, if you’re going to play that around the kiddies this morning.

Oh, after the Crunchies? Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, came over and we had a really nice chat.

The last ScobleShow

It’s my birthday today (I’m 43) and, as a gift, PodTech just put up a bunch of stuff I did. That means the last PodTech ScobleShow has just been posted. Some really killer stuff, too, including interviews with my first girlfriend, Xbox Live’s Larry Hryb, Doug Engelbart, a killer 3D search interface, and much more. Enjoy and can’t wait for March 3.

Next week at Davos, though, we’ll post videos to my Qik channel from the World Economic Forum.