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Robert Scoble Quotes

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

– Robert Scoble

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

– Robert Scoble

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn’t seeming to be that innovative.

– Robert Scoble

I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen.

– Robert Scoble

The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you.

– Robert Scoble

There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.

– Robert Scoble

Never change the URL of your blog. I’ve done it once, and I lost much of my readership. It took several months to build up the same reader patterns and trust.

– Robert Scoble

Highlight just hasn’t proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

– Robert Scoble

It’s not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

– Robert Scoble

My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.

– Robert Scoble

The problem with Microsoft is that it’s so committee-driven and slow.

– Robert Scoble

I’ve seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.

– Robert Scoble

Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you’re part of an industry.

– Robert Scoble

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

– Robert Scoble

Once you become known for one thing, it’s easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.

– Robert Scoble

What’s really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they’re all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.

– Robert Scoble

There’s more noise that comes with wearable computing, things that let us take pictures every 30 seconds as we walk around living our lives, and a huge number more photos per person will exist.

– Robert Scoble

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

– Robert Scoble

Unfriend people who do not post to Facebook or engage with anyone else. You’ll find your posts start getting reach they never did before. Why? Facebook only releases your posts to a few people at first and watches what they do with it.

– Robert Scoble

I’d rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they’re doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they’ve collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they’re doing with it. I’m not scared by that.

– Robert Scoble

On mobile, make sure Facebook’s app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location.

– Robert Scoble

I find that it’s not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That’s why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

– Robert Scoble

I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It’s why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It’s why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.

– Robert Scoble

If there’s a danger at Facebook, it’s the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren’t going to go elsewhere.

– Robert Scoble

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

– Robert Scoble

There’s smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

– Robert Scoble

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don’t engage with and more of what you do.

– Robert Scoble

Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you’re writing a blog about it.

– Robert Scoble

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

– Robert Scoble

Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it – before the second or third site does – and answer its claims as best you can.

– Robert Scoble

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