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" Facebook is teachable. If you hide items, you'll see fewer of those kinds of items in the future. Like more items, and you'll see more of those in the future. "

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" I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds. "

Robert Scoble

Wait

Take

" 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. "

" Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. "

Robert Scoble

Hurt

Head

" 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. "

" It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth. "

" 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

Pictures

Walk

" There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information. "

Robert Scoble

Company

Information

" Never change the URL of your blog. I've done it once, and I lost much of my readership. It took several months to build up the same reader patterns and trust. "

" 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. "

" I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. "

Robert Scoble

Valley

Known

" I'm so tired of the privacy advocates. "

Robert Scoble

Privacy

Tired

" 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

Apple

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle. "

" Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. "

" People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true. "

" Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. "

" I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them! "

" The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you. "

" I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up. "

" 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. "

Robert Scoble

Danger

" 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. "

Robert Scoble

Early

High

" 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. "

" This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing. "

" My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible. "

" 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. "