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"We're friends on Facebook and we've never met,"...
"We're friends on Facebook and we've never met," said Avish Bhama when he introduced himself when my son, Patrick Scoble and I were enjoying a latte at Coupa Cafe - Palo Alto. He then made a nice photo of us with my Glass. What a crazy world we live in...
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Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans
Al Gore tweeted that he is outraged. I remember going to the White House back when it was occupied by George Bush and it was clear that the government was gonna do a lot of stuff to knock down terrorism that would infringe on our freedoms. This is more...
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Robert Scoble and Jaron Lanier on wearable technology
Here's a version everyone can watch of the BBC debate I had with Jaron Lanier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22770908 Google Glass and wearable computers. Media training? If you get on with Jeremy Paxman (many PR people live in fear of him since...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Samsung Galaxy S4 ships on Verizon: Shootout of camera The…
The Samsung Mobile Galaxy S4 is at Verizon Wireless stores starting today. I picked one up and immediately shot a photo comparison. First gut feel? I like the thing better than HTC One (which has really crappy reception, lots of dropped calls, damn do...
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Dave Winer
First world problems: my friend Dave Winer is back on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12 and Facebook won't let me add him because, well, Facebook only lets us have 5,000 friends. So, I had to unfriend someone to add Dave In. I also have...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Enterprises: you building your own websites? If so, you…
Enterprises: watch how @pantheon_drupal helps thousands manage their web infrastructure. Good video to put up since I'm speaking at Internet Week in New York in an hour or so. It's been a good few days in New York, the weather here is spectacular today,...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Vodafone's contextual queen Had a great meeting today with…
Vodafone's contextual queen. Watch out Sheryl Sandberg Fay Arjomandi might just be more powerful than you! :-) Yes, I do have an interesting life. By the way, these Iranians have quite a mafia going. Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble now you get why I married...
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What kind of asshole are you? | A different kind of marketing
What kind of asshole are you? Michael Ferranti used to be a chef in Paris and worked with a lot of, um, different kinds of managers. Love this kind of blog because you can see managerial styles and learn from them. He told me one of his bosses used to...
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What kind of asshole are you? | A different kind of marketing
What kind of asshole are you? Michael Ferranti used to be a chef in Paris and worked with a lot of, um, different kinds of managers. Love this kind of blog because you can see managerial styles and learn from them. He told me one of his bosses used to...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - A new kinds of real-time website content helper, analytics:…
Wow, a new kind of web now possible: Spinnakr's cofounder, Adam Bonnifield, shows me real time big data analytics. It lets you see, in real time, where your web visitors are coming from and you can change your content to be different just for those visitors....
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Hey, +Vic Gundotra, you should check out Umoove: face and…
Will Apple ship Umoove's face and eye tracking? This stuff blows away what Samsung put in the Galaxy S4. Thanks to Hillel Fuld who hooked me up. He's been telling me for months that I better see this. It's amazing, must watch. Oh, and I shot this video...
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Bush-Era NSA Chief Defends PRISM, Phone Meta-Data Collection : NPR
Here's the other side of PRISM. Is this worth giving up some of our privacy? Congress has said yes 13 times so far and reevaluates this every few months. Educated minds can disagree. I'm so happy that we've had mostly a great debate here the past few...
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Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From...
Reading Techcrunch's comments this morning, here, you see there is generally a mistrust of both press and government Yet WE now are the press. Plus we continue to vote for people who simply aren't technically astute. SOPA proved that. My visits to Washington...
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Everything.me - Introducing the Dynamic Phone TM
One app made me love Android and BLOWS AWAY iOS. One app. Shows just how much a small team can do to change my world. The app? http://corp.everything.me/ More on Gillmor Gang when it gets posted to Techcrunch today and I'll do a comparison to iOS 7 after...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - I love visiting Parc: here they show me inkjet printed…
Damn I love visiting PARC. (Where ethernet, laser printing, object oriented programming, and what eventually became the Macintosh was invented). What are they doing now? Contextual computing. Printable circuitry. Better batteries, and more. Here's my...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - I love IFTTT: lets you control the Internet and now mobile …
I love IFTTT. Period. If you are geek and haven't tried this, you should at least consider it (watch the video here to see what it does). Lets you control the Internet and, now, Mobile. Turns the Internet into an OS. The beginnings of the contextual age...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - An inside look at one of San Francisco's most innovative…
Erik Boles says this is one of my best videos ever. It is an interesting discussion about our contextual future and the changes it'll bring to our culture with Obscura Digital. Every day I pinch myself that Rackspace Hosting pays me to meet innovators...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Lifelogging visionary tries on Google Glass This is…
The guy who started the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA? (You really should visit!) That's Gordon Bell who now works for Microsoft Research. I got to put Google Glass on him for the first time, great experience for me. Really thrilling to...
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KTVU Channel 2 has been doing the best job of...
KTVU Channel 2 has been doing the best job of covering the plane crash today. Nice to hear, from this post on KTVU, that most people are accounted for and are safe. Sad for the 49 people who are in the hospital tonight and the two dead. Tragic but could...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - SmugMug is one crazy photo company Today I had a busy day.…
Photographers: SmugMug is announcing something pretty significant for you next week. I dropped by today unexpectedly and shot a bunch of photos on Glass of them. SmugMug's culture is still my favorite of all the smaller Silicon Valley companies (it now...
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The Landscape of Social Login & Sharing: Consumers Want Choice « Gigya's Blog
Who is winning the social login war? Facebook is, so far. This will be interesting to watch over time, I bet Google and Facebook take more and more share over time. Does this matter? It does in the Age of Context. The logins we choose are the brands we...
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Apple reportedly in talks to buy company behind Kinect sensor
Israel is having quite a month. Looks like Apple might buy PrimeSense. Don't know what they do? Check out my interviews with Primesense's CEO: Why does this matter? See these interviews I did with Primesense's CEO: http://scobleizer.com/2013/01/22/the-contextual-sensual-ces2013/...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - An inside look at one of San Francisco's most innovative…
My Fourth of July present to you. An inside look inside one of San Francisco's most innovative companies, Obscura Digital, where I spend some time with one of North Face's co-founders. Great insight into what's changed about building companies today vs....
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Congrats Jeff on losing 88 pounds I barely recognized…
Congrats Jeff Keni Pulver for losing 88 pounds in the past year (I see him once a year in Jackson Hole for the ICUC event that Yossi Vardi invites us to). He's my veggie-pushing exercising friend. I need more inspiration like him. My wife lost 40 pounds...
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Robert Scoble - Google+ - Finally a business book with something new to say …
This book, about what the author Scott Berkun learned by working for Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the folks behind WordPress.com, is really great. Finally a business book that has something new to say about the future of work. I hope the book...