Robert Scoble

This is the best way to communicate while keeping government or other prying eyes out of your stuff.

I'm using Foursquare less and less and caring whether I'm a mayor or something like that less and less every month (if I ever cared all that much before).

It's sad, because I really love Foursquare for the tips.

That said, Foursquare is actively pissing me off. I think Dennis Crowley SHOULD keep using it more and more (if your CEO isn't the most active user of your product you SHOULD worry!) But, Dennis didn't take automatic checkin seriously enough and he's now being matched by very big companies like Yelp, Google, and even Facebook. He hasn't pushed the app forward enough fast enough and THAT is what the employees should be bitching about. Not whether he is on too many vacations or such. Heck, that could be chalked up to market research IF Dennis pushed the product forward harder.

At this point, though, not sure what I'd do. If I did I'd start a company. I don't, I just am a lowly user and I've noticed my user behavior has moved to other systems. That's what the employees should worry about.

Here's Rackspace's official answer on how we handle government requests. Like I said, my stances over the weekend weren't coming from Rackspace. This shows just how deeply our execs believe in the Fourth Amendment.

I'm so fortunate that I work for Rackspace Hosting and that they let me hang my opinions out here without worrying about reprisals even when we disagree.

Go Apple: Half Moon Bay surfing spots beat cats anytime. ;-0

Not to mention that Apple exec Phil Schiller lives in Half Moon Bay. Mavericks is famous big-wave surf spot here. I'm sure he had something to do with that.

Half Moon Bay is becoming quite a backwater tech town. Rackspace's Cloud app was written in the Peet's here by Michael Mayo. Several Google execs and geeks live here. Lots of tech companies have offsites here.

Next week Bloomberg West will have its first futuristic tech conference at the Ritz by my house.

The Google Glass video that was shown at last year's IO was filmed at the Ritz Pool here.

GoPro was started here. Steve Jurvetson, who funded Hotmail and many other crazy startups, owns a home here.

Soon we'll do some events here. I hear Halley Suitt Tucker's book is coming out, so we might throw a party in August.

If you come by Half Moon Bay, let us know. Friday afternoons we're often at the Ritz with a bunch of interesting technologists having fun talking about the future. Increasingly it'll show up, too. A next door neighbor, for instance, helps run the Google Chrome team and he brought a Pixel Chromebook out before anyone had seen them.