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" 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. "
Robert Scoble
Day
Every Day
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. "
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" 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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Head
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. "
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" I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. "
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Google
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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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" Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. "
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Only
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" 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. "
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Small
" 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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" 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
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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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Economic
Conference
Far
" Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg. "
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Internet
People
World
" Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. "
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One Thing
Known
" 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
" 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. "
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" Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry. "
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Your
You
" 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. "
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Someone
Web
" 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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Going
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" 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. "
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You
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" 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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Facebook
You
" 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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