Robert Scoble

We visited famous research lab, SRI International, which is where SIRI, Nuance, HDTV, the Mouse, and many other things started their lives. Here we see how SRI is launching Cube Sats. Learn more here: http://www.sri.com/research-development/earth-space#top I will have a lot more videos from SRI up early next week.

How are low-cost sensors and compute changing our world? Listen to Dysonics which came up with a way to make headphones better. Keep the band in one place, for instance. The effect is stunning, I wish you all could hear what it sounds like. Take a look at the listening experience of the future: http://www.rondomotion.com/kickstarter/

Here I talk with CEO Sooinn Lee of http://locomotivelabs.com This company hits home for me, since I have an autistic son who loves his iPad. Hear how this company is shipping several innovative iPad apps that help children with special needs learn.

http://foundationdb.com/ is a new kind of highly-scalable database: it supports transactions, too. Here Dave Rosenthal, co-founder of FoundationDB, talks about why his database is needed.

Cooliris just shipped a new photo-browsing experience that brings what it calls "endless discovery." This is really awesome and here co-founder Austin Shoemaker shows me the latest features. Learn more at http://www.cooliris.com

Phil Fernandez, CEO, of Marketo (marketing automation company) yesterday announced the company was going to IPO to raise money to take it to the next level. But this interview isn't about that. It's about where marketing is going in the future. We talk about a range of topics from outdoor advertising to contextual marketing that will arrive thanks to wearable computers like Google Glass.

John Gotts, CEO of http://connectgop.com, has something interesting cooking with a social media system that hooks together Republicans. Generally I don't get involved with politics, especially Republican ones, but I've been tracking Gotts for years (the company started out as a social media aggregator named Chumly and then pivoted toward politics when Gotts realized that politicians, particularly Republicans, were way behind in social media and needed help getting going). He's pretty secretive about what he's doing, since he's competing with Nation Builder, a company full of rich former Facebook execs (and it's well capitalized too). He thinks Nation Builder will be picked by the Democrats, which leaves the Republican side of the house open. We just were at a speech by Harper Reed, who ran Barack Obama's tech reelection team, and Reed said that their technology was being disbanded and that he'd never have been able to share databases with the Republicans. Cross-party data sharing is a huge no-no, which leaves a huge hole open for John Gotts and his firm to drive through. I share this to scare the Democrats into building a system that keeps data around between campaigns. Gotts' does. Also, they should build a system that shares data between all Democrats. Gotts' does. John Gotts might be the most dangerous guy the Democrats have ever met. Worse of all he doesn't share the dogma of many other Republicans and is mostly focused on helping Republicans win. If that doesn't scare Democrats, nothing will. They should study him and fear him. If the Democrats don't, the Republicans are the tech leaders by default.

*America's most important startup?* This is a really long video. More than an hour. Why is it so long? Because Techshop could be the most important startup to United States' manufacturing industry. Here we spend an hour with CEO Mark Hatch. What is Techshop? It's a place where you can make things. We get an in-depth tour. You can learn more here: http://www.techshop.ws In this video you'll also meet several startups that call Techshop home. This is why Techshop is so important to our economy. It's providing a place for many other startups to get going, meet cofounders, and make the things that need to be made to startup companies. At about 13 minutes you meet the founder of Emotimo, which makes robotic heads for photographers to control their cameras. Learn more about that here: http://youtu.be/88vTsKdysoo?t=13m53s Don't miss the discussion of 3D printing at about 36 minutes into the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vTsKdysoo#t=36m18s as we visit one of the startups located at Techshop San Francisco, Type A Machines. Learn more about this 3D Printing Startup at http://typeamachines.com At about 45 minutes into the video we meet SF Made, a non-profit that is helping the growing manufacturing sector in San Francisco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vTsKdysoo#t=45m30s At 54 minutes into the tour we meet ProtoTank, a startup that makes unique signs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vTsKdysoo#t=54m44s Learn more about ProtoTank here: http://prototank.com At 62 minutes into it, the founder of ProtoTank shows me a cool wearable LED system he built. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vTsKdysoo#t=62m17s This tour gave me great hope for the future of USA's economy. In a world where we see so many negatives of jobs going overseas, here you see how real jobs are coming back here.

Moves is an app that watches what you do. It works in the background. Tracks you during the day. It's sort of like a health monitor that you might wear, like a FitBit, Nike FuelBand, etc. But it does a lot more than those do. So, we took a walk to discover just what it does. On the walk we also had a founder of ReelyActive, which makes BlueTooth devices that can be used to connect you to the physical world and we discuss the future of the Internet of Things as well on the walk. Interesting conversation. http://reelyactive.com/corporate/ http://www.moves-app.com/

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