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The problem with Flipboard is that it's an app, not the Web, and I keep hoping someone will show me a really well-designed Web app that shows me that the Web can still win.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Me Keep Will
App
Hoping
The Problem With
Web
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Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Benefits
Comfortable
Honest
Hours
Paid
Big Company
Per
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On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Features
Items
Location
Mobile
Where Your Know
App
Your Know Where
Feed
Facebook
Nearby
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IOS users tend to be ones that really care about being online all the time. They also tend to be willing to pay for that. You might say they are richer users, which is partially true.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Online
Users
Richer
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We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Frightening
Time World Will
Services
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Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Filters
Productivity
Best Day Every Day
Emails
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If you're in business, and you don't understand how that word of mouth works, you won't be able to take full advantage of it, how to get full adoption by getting that network to talk about you.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Adoption
Advantage
Full Advantage
Mouth
Network
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There's more noise that comes with wearable computing, things that let us take pictures every 30 seconds as we walk around living our lives, and a huge number more photos per person will exist.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Computing
Noise
Seconds
Huge Number
Per
Let Us
Photos
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Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Acquaintance
Close Friend
Distribute
Facebook
List
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Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.
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Blogging
Different
Lists
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I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Gates
Larry
Bill Gates
Meeting
Page
Steve
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Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Don't Care
Email
Features
Hacked
Security
Your People Will
Your People Care
Generally
Care People Will
Services
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A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.
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Technology
Glasses
Ipods
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Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines).
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Delight
Giving
Google
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Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Ads
Arguing
Disagree
Tracking
Life Work Me
Life Work Better
Facebook
Filtering
Improves
Potentially
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Unfriend people who do not post to Facebook or engage with anyone else. You'll find your posts start getting reach they never did before. Why? Facebook only releases your posts to a few people at first and watches what they do with it.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Posts
Release
Watches
Start Your People
Anyone Else
Your Start People
Engage
Facebook
Few People
Start People Your
Post
Reach
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You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Fund
Maps
San Francisco
Seattle
Venture
Francisco
San
Tech
Tech Companies
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There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.
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Extraordinary
My Time
Smarter
Businesses
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What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.
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Apps
Collecting
Data
Iphone
App
Something Else
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I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.
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Microsoft
Numbers
Passionate
Big Thing
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The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.
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Evening
Stranger
Life Time Experience
Total
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I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Instance
Privacy
Big Company
Collected
Sue
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Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Xbox
Data
Microsoft
World Me People
Apple
Facebook
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Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc.
Robert Scoble / Blogger
Bars
Brands
Don't Care
Etc
Malls
Shopping
Affect
Churches
Crappy
Experiences
Facebook
Schools
View
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