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" 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
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" 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. "
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Little
Going
iPhone
" 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. "
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Apple
Me
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" 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. "
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Page
World
Why
" 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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Wait
Up
Take
" Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative. "
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See
Facebook
Tired
" 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. "
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Friends
Looking
Better
" I'm so tired of the privacy advocates. "
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Privacy
Tired
" I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. "
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I Believe
Google
Believe
" 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
" 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
" This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing. "
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Best
Understood
Product
" 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. "
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Life
Experience
Time
" 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. "
Robert Scoble
World
Time
Moving
" I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. "
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Us
Valley
Known
" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "
Robert Scoble
Design
You
Hacker
" The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise. "
Robert Scoble
War
Noise
Means
" 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
" My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course. "
Robert Scoble
Started
Time
Me
" 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
" The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow. "
Robert Scoble
Problem
Slow
Microsoft
" 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
" Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader. "
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Leader
Technology
Apple
" 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. "
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Company
Go
Information
" Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too. "
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Will
Turn
Security
" 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. "
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Because
Amazing
Found
" 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. "
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Step
People
Love
" Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it. "
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Writing
Know
Alive
" 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. "
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Friends
You
Possible
" My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible. "
Robert Scoble
Economic
Conference
Far
" 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