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" 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
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" My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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!' "
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" 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. "
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" I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them! "
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" 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. "
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Change
" I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen. "
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Time
Me
" Make sure you like, comment and share other people's items. That teaches Facebook what kinds of things you like to see in your feed. "
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" I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed. "
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First
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" I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define. "
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Expert
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" I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that. "
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Doing
Know
See
" With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity. "
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Will
Technology
" Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. "
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Me
" 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. "
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" I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. "
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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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" 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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" Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader. "
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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. "
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You
" People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true. "
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Out
Important
" 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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" Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative. "
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