Robert Scoble Quotes

If you're in business, and you don't understand how that word of mouth works, you won't be able to take full advantage of it, how to get full adoption by getting that network to talk about you.

Make sure you like, comment and share other people's items. That teaches Facebook what kinds of things you like to see in your feed.

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.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.

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.

I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.

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

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.

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.

My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.

Shel Israel has been a diabetic for many years, jabbing his finger a few times every day to measure his blood sugar. Every six months he brings his glucose meter to his endocrinologist, who extracts and analyzes the data. His pharmacist recently informed him that a new California law requires him to share his data with them as well or his insurance coverage will be dropped, raising the monthly cost from about $8.25 to about $165. Who is behind this law?

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only.

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

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.

At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.

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

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.

Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list.

It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.

I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.

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.

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

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

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

Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.

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

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.

Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.

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

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company.

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.

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.

Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.