Robert Scoble

Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram was on our United flight. I congratulated him on his success. It is so good to be home. Lots of geeks were on board, including Evernote's founder too. Always fun!

The Open Cloud Smackdown led by Lew Moorman President at Rackspace Hosting. This video of him was recorded at the GigaOM Structure conference this week.

Tonight at dinner in London I was showing off why Facebook's "brand likes" are better for building an incoming news feed. Sure enough the local CBS TV station showed up with a breaking news item over on my ticker during my talk to 50 people (thanks Thomas Power and Francine Hardaway), mostly media and tech execs, and it took me to a Reuters feed where we were able to watch the pier burning in live video feed.

Amazing example of how Facebook is changing.

Here's a photo, from Twitter (also seen here on Facebook, which shows how good news leaks from there to here), of the building burning and roof collapsing.

I just shared this news with the 50 people here in London for dinner. I said "oh, my Nokia Lumia 900 isn't upgradable to the new Windows Phone 8." One guy said "f**king disaster."

But Tim Stevens and Engadget have a bunch of pro and con opinions worth reading.