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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. "

Robert Scoble

World

Time

Moving

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" 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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Walk

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Information

" 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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Take

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

Robert Scoble

Privacy

Tired

" The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow. "

" I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Early

High

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

" 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

" 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. "

" I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. "

" My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "