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" I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen. "
Robert Scoble
Want
Time
Me
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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
Walk
Care
You
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
Society
Find
Change
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
People
Time
Struggle
" My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible. "
Robert Scoble
Economic
Conference
Far
" Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader. "
Robert Scoble
Leader
Technology
Apple
" 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
Nice
Family
Happy
" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "
Robert Scoble
Design
You
Hacker
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
You
More
Hide
" 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
Problem
Someone
Web
" Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it. "
Robert Scoble
Just
Friends
Running
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
Media
New
Small
" Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. "
Robert Scoble
Videos
Only
Post
" Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg. "
Robert Scoble
Internet
People
World
" I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane. "
Robert Scoble
Step
People
Love
" I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define. "
Robert Scoble
Become
Expert
Small
" Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook. "
Robert Scoble
Facebook
Rare
Find
" I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up. "
Robert Scoble
Passionate
Start
People
" I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them! "
Robert Scoble
I Can
Phone
Two
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
Walk
Amazing
Company
" 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
Me
" My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course. "
Robert Scoble
Started
Time
Me
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
Want
Race
Problem
" I'm so tired of the privacy advocates. "
Robert Scoble
Privacy
Tired
" 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
Go
Us
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
More
Early
High
" 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
Maps
Seattle
Money
" 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
Friends
Looking
Better
" I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. "
Robert Scoble
Knew
Focused
Important
" Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can. "
Robert Scoble
You
Say
News