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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. "

Robert Scoble

Friends

You

Possible

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Robert Scoble

You

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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Scoble

Privacy

Tired

" 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. "

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

" I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. "

" 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. "

" The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you. "

" 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. "

" Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

Robert Scoble

Pictures

Walk

" Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "