Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Robert Scobleis an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He later worked for Fast Company as a video blogger, and then Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43 promoting breakthrough technology and startups. He currently works for Upload VR — a new media site covering virtual and augmented reality — as its entrepreneur in residence, where he develops new shows,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 January 1965
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.
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.
Our corporate policy is, be smart. We don't talk about things we don't know about.
Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry.
When you go to different sites it is listed as RSS or sometimes XML or Atom. When you use the term feeds or Web feeds it is easier for people to understand.
With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.
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.
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.
If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.
I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.
I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.
I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen.