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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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" 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. "

Robert Scoble

Life

Experience

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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. "

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

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

Robert Scoble

Privacy

Tired

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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

" My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course. "

Robert Scoble

Started

Time

" 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. "

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

" Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do. "

" 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. "

" 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

Hide

" If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere. "

Robert Scoble

Danger

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

" With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity. "

" I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up. "

" I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen. "

Robert Scoble

Want

Time

" Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "