Robert Scoble
Summary
Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has three children; one from a previous marriage and two with Maryam. He currently works for Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43. He previously worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel. Scoble was born in New Jersey in 1965, and grew up about a kilometre from Apple Computer's headquarters in Silicon Valley.
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Why the death of Google Reader doesn’t bother me that much — social news has won
There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled this week about Google’s decision to “sunset” its Google Reader RSS service, including a post from my paidContent colleague Laura Owen about how much she relies on her feeds — a sentiment I know Om shares. Unlike a lot of my fellow news junkies, however, I’m not really that concerned about Google’s decision, mostly because I stopped using my RSS feeds several years ago and haven’t looked back.
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The NYT is doing something smart by using Twitter trends to target ads
We spend a fair amount of time criticizing traditional media players like the New York Times for not being innovative enough, relying too much on paywalls for revenue growth, and other perceived failings — so I think it’s only fair when we recognize things that they do that are innovative and interesting, and a new ad product it has launched definitely falls into that category.
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Sponsor post: Midemlab seeks startups for music disruption and engagement
Midem is looking for startups and app developers focused on disrupting the music industry scene and transforming audience engagement.
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This Week in Review: Discerning truth and lies in political coverage, and the value of digital-first news
How far should journalists go in judging political lies?: The U. S. vice presidential debate was held last night, and moderators remained in the spotlight during the leadup to it, as ABC’s Martha Raddatz received scrutiny from conservatives because President Obama attended her wedding 21 years ago (he was a classmate of her now ex-husband).
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This Week in Review: Twitter’s real-time debate analysis, and the rise of mobile news
Instantly analyzing and fact-checking debates: The first U. S. presidential debate of this campaign was held on Wednesday, the first general-election presidential debate to be defined by our current Twitter and “fact-checking” eras. The New York Times reported on the efforts by PBS’ Jim Lehrer and upcoming debate moderators to tune out the social media criticism, but it was pretty tough to ignore Wednesday night, when Twitter users eviscerated Lehrer’s passive performance as moderator (as Storified by Poynter).
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Why Google+ needs to be Jay-Z and not Tom Hanks, but can it change?
Google+ has a problem. While Google’s social network might have somewhere north of 25o million active users, and some predicting it might eventually have a huge impact on search campaigns among other things, others argue it is a failure.
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Keen versus Scoble: Fight!
What to make of a debate between Andrew Keen and Robert Scoble, moderated by Milo Yiannopoulos? It's like a bubbling Twitter pot of internet contrvoveselebs. . .
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This Week in Review: The fallout from Facebook and Instagram’s deal, and e-books’ unclear future
Facebook scoops up Instagram: There were two billion-dollar deals in the tech world this week, and by far the bigger of the two was Facebook’s purchase of the photo-sharing app Instagram. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM has a good, quick roundup of initial reaction to the deal, but I’ll try to sort through each of the angles to the story, including what this means for Facebook, Instagram, and the tech world in general.
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Social media vs Content marketing – death match or siamese twins?
The term content marketing has cropped up ever more frequently this last year. But what exactly is it, and how is it different from social media? Is the term of any use at all?.
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Visiting the Death Star of Texas – SXSW 2012 Day minus one
After an eventful trip involving engine problems, missed connections and cross country transfers the UKTI SXSW mission group found itself arriving bleary eyed at Dell HQ in Round Rock Texas to a pre SXSW kick off “Unconference”.
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