Robert Scoble born in California
0 0 reuben reuben2014-11-05 02:26:322014-11-05 03:08:16Robert Scoble born in CaliforniaStarts university
0 CommentsScoble enrolls at West Valley Community College. He studies journalism and writes for the school paper.
San Jose State University
0 CommentsScoble enrols in the school’s Journalism program and switches to writing from photojournalism.
Leaves college
0 CommentsScoble leaves San Jose State’s Journalism program, without graduating.
It is true that I didn’t graduate from college
Conferences editor
0 CommentsScoble organizes conferences for Fawcette Technical Publications, which targets computer programmers and has a circulation of 110,000 and revenues of $10 million.
UserLand Software
0 CommentsScoble joins the company, a blogging content and software management startup, as VP of marketing. Dave Winer, the New York entrepreneur who owned the company, had given him some advice:
Blogging was hot
NEC
0 CommentsMicrosoft
0 CommentsScoble joins the company as a tech evangelist for Windows, and maintains a blog. He talks about how management approaches the blogging community at the company:
They’re sort of watching it. They’re allowing the bloggers to talk and hoping that nobody gets into trouble or gets sued, or a customer gets mad, or that we get quoted in the press and create a firestorm.
$40 Userland app
0 CommentsScoble talks to Baseline magazine about being one of the early business bloggers, how his writing affects people’s attitudes to Microsoft, passing on negative feedback to the company’s executive, and the $40 app from Userland that he uses to publish Scobleizer:
I’ve gotten email from people telling me they have changed their attitude about Microsoft because of my blog…[but] The lawyers are scared that I might say something that gets Microsoft screwed. There are certainly unwritten or understood rules. If I post the [prerelease] build of Longhorn, I’d get fired.
Economist profile
0 CommentsThe magazine profiles Scoble’s work at Microsoft and on Scobleizer, saying that the blog is challenging traditional PR and corporate communications techniques. He says his freedom to criticize Microsoft helps credibility:
I’ve been pretty harsh on Microsoft over the years
Publish Naked Conversations
Scoble and Israel publish the book about blogging as a part of business and for customer relations. Scoble on how to get blog traffic:
Use good headlines. Search engines bring lots of traffic. Also, link out. Also, email your friends about your blog, particularly when you have a good post that you think they will find interesting.
Podtech
0 CommentsScoble joins the company to run its video show network. He is reported to have been unhappy about being underutilized at Microsoft, with no travel budget for most of his tenure, and having to take personal days to attend blogging conferences.
FastCompany.TV
0 CommentsScoble joins as Managing Director of the blog network’s video site, and runs Scoble.TV. Scobleizer also joins parent company’s Mansueto’s network.
I decided to join up with Fast Company because I wanted to work with a brand well known for covering innovation and technology in an authoritative, provocative manner
Reveals conversion to Islam
0 CommentsIn a poem-like post entitled, I am not an American, Scoble outlines many political positions and contrasts them with the words, “I am not American’. This is for dramatic effect — he has not actually changed his nationality. In the post he reveals that his mother is German and that he converted to Islam so that he could get married to Ghaemmaghami.
When I married I married a Muslim woman. I’m not an American.
Even worse, I converted to Islam so that we could be married in an Islamic ceremony. I’m not an American.
Rackspace and Building 43
0 CommentsScoble joins Rackspace as startup liaison officer. He will also partner with the company to build his new project, Building 43, a content and social networking community. About Building 43:
The first time I visited Google they gave me a tour of Building 43. I found it to be a fanciful place where not only did the founders have offices, but they had this fun board in the lobby called “Google’s Master Plan.” [..] seemed like a good metaphor for a community that’s for people who are fanatical about the Internet. Make Building 43 open to everyone.
Social media in marketing talk
0 CommentsScoble talks at Stanford about social media in marketing, and how ideas spread. He says his background in tech goes back – he grew up in Silicon Valley about a mile from the Apple headquarters and started doing online communities in about 1984, when it could take several days for his computer club to dial up and receive email:
This world is moving very very quickly, so if you’re trying to build a brand and get noticed, if you’re a musician or a CEO or a business, or a social project, you’re going to have to keep competing with this world that just keeps moving at this speed
Interview about curation
0 CommentsScoble talks with author Howard Rheingold on why curating web content is important, and how to do it well. He says he got interested in curation when he was running the AP wire machine at Sarasota State when the O.J. Simpson verdict came through, and he noticed that of hundreds of wire stories, the San Jose Mercury picked up only one or two:
Now, today, Twitter is really the replacement for the Associated Press wire machine…I just enjoy picking out interesting things or seeing patterns that other people don’t see in the news…how you become a good [curator] is to see patterns coming through the stream on Facebook or Twitter
The Next Web keynote
0 CommentsScoble talks about startups with products that he says are freaking people out when they are introduced now, but will become acceptable soon, like location tracking (Placeme) and gesture and body-language interpretation (Primesense).
In the future I’ll wake up and information will be spraying on my walls
LeWeb London debate
Scoble debates Keen about whether social apps are destroying the mystery and secrecy of humans, and whether the loss of privacy from being highly active on social media is dangerous. Scoble:
No, it’s not dangerous, it’s brought so many good things into my life…That’s why I live in public because people who contact have always added something to my life
Chase Jarvis interview
Scoble and Jarvis talk about gear and tech including cameras, wearable image sensors, realtime creative collaboration, cloud solutions, and other new tech that can be used for creative purposes. He also talks about how he got into tech, including asking Steve Wozniak for $40,000 for the San Jose State journalism program, which he says Wozniak gave the program. Scoble:
In junior high I got a tour of the Apple building when it was one building…which gives you a sense of how nuts the world can get. I fell in love with computers..ever since then I’ve been at the change of old to new
