Robert Scoble

This is why Microsoft didn't announce a price for its Surface tablet last week. Imagine if they had announced a $399 price. This week that will look incredibly lame. It is very clear that Microsoft has to get under the $200 price point with its tablets. I've been saying that the ballsy thing for Ballmer to do would be to price it at $99. People have been telling me I'm nuts, but that's really what it's going to take to get Windows RT taken seriously by anyone.

Microsoft's shareholders aren't gonna like that at all. Remember how it cost Microsoft about $10 billion to build the Xbox brand? I do. Microsoft is going to have to spend $20 to $30 billion to marketshare here. That means a $99 tablet. If Microsoft tries to price against iPad it'll fail and fail horribly.

The new Podcast app is quite nice.

I have to make sure my SoundCloud channel at http://soundcloud.com/scobleizer is available there.

I gotta ask Alexander Ljung (founder of SoundCloud) how to do that. Or you can help. Any ideas?

Zynga snubbed Google+ here. If you want to play its new Ville game it only supports Facebook. Shows the challenge laid out for Vic Gundotra tomorrow at Google IO.

It will be interesting to see what Google does tomorrow to get in Facebook's face.

Does Google have a shot?

I am at Zynga seeing its latest stuff but still don't get games. I am game adverse I guess. How about you?

Its new Ville game hits tomorrow. Anyone want to play house?

That sounds so dirty!

I bet Michael Arrington doesn't play. He is addicted to SongPop.