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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. "

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" Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you. "

Robert Scoble

Beautiful

Help

Apple

" The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car. "

" The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!' "

Robert Scoble

You

Rise

" Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

Robert Scoble

Privacy

Tired

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

My Life

Work