Robert Scoble

Taxis raise warchest to sue UberX, Lyft, SideCar

Taxi interests in California are collecting a war chest to finance anticipated lawsuits against Lyft, SideCar, UberX and other tech-enabled companies that are using mobile phones to match riders with private drivers for hire.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/10/uberx-lyft-sidecar-andreessen-horowitz.html

Google is imagining a way to control your car using gestures, according to patent application

Google has long led the push for autonomous vehicles, but it seems the search company is also interested in how drivers and passengers control their in-car entertainment systems. A new patent application published today reveals a hypothetical system that could track your movements while driving, allowing you to make adjustments to a wide range of controls using gestures.

http://vrge.co/GBcdWp

The Consumer Electronics Contextual Revolution: Why it Doesn't Matter if Google Glass or Apple's iWa - CEA

Technology thought leader Robert Scoble will share his vision for "the age of context" and what it means for you and the CE industry at CEA's Industry Forum October 20-23 in Los Angeles. We are in the beginning stages of a new age: one where context will change nearly every consumer electronics device.

http://shout.lt/l4nX

The complete history of Twitter as told through tortured descriptions of it in the New York Times

Twitter needs no introduction. But it wasn't always so for the "blogging-like tool for quick updates" (2006), which grew into "another leading social network" (2013). Below, I've culled some of some of the many thousands of times Twitter has appeared in the New York Times, from its first year in 2006 to the wall-to-wall coverage...

http://qz.com/130189