Robert Scoble

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

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

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You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Quotes by Robert Scoble