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'''Robert Scoble''' (born [[January 18]] [[1965]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[wikt:Blogger|blogger]] and self-proclaimed [[Technology evangelist|technical evangelist]].
'''Robert Scoble''' (born [[January 18]] [[1965]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[wikt:Blogger|blogger]], [[Technology evangelist|technical evangelist]], and author. Scoble is best known for his [[blog]], [http://scobleizer.com/ Scobleizer], which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at [[Microsoft]]. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has two sons, Patrick, from a previous marriage, and Milan. He currently works for [[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]] as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of ''[[Naked Conversations]]: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers'' with [[Shel Israel]].

==Early life and education==
Scoble was born in New Jersey in 1965, and grew up about a mile from [[Apple Computer]]'s headquarters in [[Silicon Valley]].<ref name="QnA">{{cite web |url=http://steverubel.typepad.com/micropersuasion/2004/04/qa_with_robert_.html |title=Q&A with Robert Scoble on Blogging, Media and PR |date=[[2004-04-29]] |first=Steve |last=Rubel |accessdate=2006-08-26}}</ref> Some of his favorite childhood memories are working in his own garage with electronic stuff that his dad (William Scoble, PhD from [[Rutgers University]] in [[Materials Engineering]]) brought home from his jobs at [[Ampex]] and [[Lockheed Martin]].<ref name="cold_war">{{cite web |url=http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/12/31.html#a5993 |title=How Silicon Valley Won the Cold War |date=[[2003-12-31]] | first=Robert| last=Scoble |work=The Scobleizer Weblog |accessdate=2006-08-28}}</ref>

His mother worked for Apple Computer as a member of a group of women led by Hildy Licht who built [[Apple II]]s at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11 and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. He also had a summer job with [[Hewlett Packard]], working on one of their production lines. Robert attended [[Hyde Junior High School]] in [[Cupertino, California]]<ref name="scoble_2003-06-01">{{cite web |url=http://scoble.weblogs.com/2003/06/01.html#a3172 |title=Postings for [[June 1]], [[2003]] |date=[[2003-06-01]] |first=Robert |last=Scoble |work=The Scobleizer Weblog |accessdate=2006-08-26 }}</ref>

In 1989 while studying in [[West Valley Community College]] he met [[Steve Wozniak]], co-founder of Apple Computer, and persuaded him to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the college journalism department.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/23/wozs-math-puzzle/ |title=Woz’s math puzzle |date=[[2005-10-23]] |first=Robert |last=Scoble |work=The Scobleizer Weblog |accessdate=2006-08-28}}</ref> His teacher made him set them up and learn all about how they worked.<ref name="mainfunction">{{cite web |url=http://www.mainfunction.com/DotNetInAction/Technologies/display.aspx?ID=2862&TypeID=11 |title=Meet Robert Scoble! |date=[[2005-11-18]] |author=Microsoft MainFunction| work=MSDN Academic Alliance Community Center |accessdate=2006-08-28}}</ref> After [[Loma Prieta earthquake]] hit he realized that he liked journalism a lot more than computer science.<ref name="about_page">{{cite web |url=http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archive/2004/08/a-good-about-page#comment11 |title=A Good About Page |date=[[2004-08-14]] |first=Robert |last=Scoble |work=D. Keith Robinson blog |accessdate=2006-08-28}} Comment from Robert with his early life biography</ref>

In 1993 he dropped out without finishing his degree in [[Journalism]] from [[San Jose State University]]'s School of Journalism and Mass Communications (he still has one class to complete<ref name="mainfunction"/><ref name="scoble_dropout">{{cite web|url=http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/16/playstation-3-mania-in-san-francisco/#comment-171470|title=Robert Scoble still need 3 credits to graduate|first=Robert|last=Scoble|date=[[2006-11-16]]|accessdate=2006-11-18}}</ref>).

Steve Sloan ([[Information Technology]] [[Consultant]] at SJSU [[help desk]]) recalls that during his time at the university "he was a [[Apple evangelist|Mac Evangelist]] and he was not afraid to install all kinds of buggy [[beta software]] and weird hacks on the old Apple computers other people used to get real work done".<ref name="Robert_visit">{{cite web |url=http://radio.weblogs.com/0121633/2005/02/13.html |title=Robert Scoble's Visit |date=[[2005-02-15]] |first=Steve |last=Sloan |accessdate=2006-08-28}}</ref>

==Career==
{{Refimprove|date=March 2008}}
Scoble began his career in the 1980s helping run a discount camera store in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] (LZ Premiums). He sold cheap cameras with small or no profits, but made money from accessories.

After college he was working for [[Fawcette Technical Publications]] (as anything man - design, editing, helping plan the conferences like [[VBITS]] and [[VSLive!]]). His current wife Maryam was also working for Fawcette.

During the mid-90's Robert helped co-chair the Visual Basic [[Special Interest Group| SIG]] for [http://www.sdforum.org SDForum], and was a frequent attendee and organizer for numerous local tech user groups.

In the late 90's Robert worked for [[Winnov]] (manufacturer of webcams) supporting webcam users and was very active in Microsoft's NetMeeting support newsgroups. He was named a Microsoft MVP for this activity and maintaining a busy NetMeeting information website. He retained his MVP status up to the time he became a Microsoft employee.

[[Dave Winer]] had told him "that blogging was hot," so he left Fawcette and joined Winer's [[UserLand Software]], which was a [[content management]] and [[blogging]] software [[startup]]. He worked for [[John Robb]] as Director of Marketing. After the startup ran out of money and was unable to pay his salary, Robert worked for free for a month and eventually had to switch jobs.

He found a job at [[NEC Corporation|NEC]] Mobile Solutions from a [[Craigslist]] posting as Sales Support Manager for [[TabletPC]]. His job responsibility was to answer all the phones and all the emails with support/sales requests. He had started using blogs (a skill learned in UserLand) to provide tech support and listen to feedback from NEC customers.

His blog was noticed by [[Vic Gundotra]] (then [[General Manager]] of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft), and Robert accepted his offer to work at Microsoft.

Scoble has long been a prominent advocate of both [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] technology and the [[Tablet PC]].<ref name="resume">{{cite web |url=http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3512#3512 |title=I'm the video guy |date=[[2004-04-16]] |first=Robert |last=Scoble |work=MSDN [[Channel9]] |accessdate=2006-08-28}} Robert posting about his education and work experience</ref><ref name="about_page"/>

===Microsoft===
[[Image:Scoble by feldstein.jpg|Scoble, Longhorn Evangelist|right|thumb|180px]]
Robert Scoble joined Microsoft in May 2003. Scoble was part of the [[Channel 9 (discussion forum)|Channel 9]] MSDN Video team, where he produced videos that showcased Microsoft employees and products.

Although Scoble often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and [[Windows Vista]], he also frequently criticized his own employer and praised its competitors (such as Apple Computer and [[Google]]). He was unusual in the level of access he offered to his users, which included publishing his cell phone number on his blog and urging people to contact him directly with issues, as well as accepting comments on his blog. His support for Microsoft in his blog, however, drew controversy and in February 2005, he became the first person to earn the newly coined moniker of "[[spokesblogger]]."

[[The Economist]] described Robert Scoble's influence in its [[February 15]] [[2005]] edition:<ref name="CHO">{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3644293 |title=Chief humanising officer |date=2005-02-10 |work=The Economist |accessdate=2006-08-26}} An article that describes Scoble's role at Microsoft</ref>
{{Cquote|He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience}}

On [[June 10]] [[2006]] Scoble announced<ref name="leaving">{{cite web |url=http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/correcting-the-record-about-microsoft/ |title=Correcting the Record about Microsoft |date=[[2006-06-10]] |first=Robert |last=Scoble |work=The Scobleizer Weblog |accessdate=2006-08-28}} Robert posting about why he left Microsoft</ref> he was leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as vice president of media development with a higher salary accompanied by "a quite aggressive stock option"<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,19443297-15306,00.html | title=Blogger Scoble Quits Microsoft|date=2006-06-12 |work=Australian IT}}</ref> offer that could make him wealthy if his new company succeeded.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5070940.stm |title=Top Microsoft Blogger to Resign |date=2006-06-12 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.forbes.com/2006/06/12/gates-microsoft-scoble-cx_po_0612autofacescan01.html |title=Ballmer's Microsoft Loses Admired Tech Evangelist |date=2006-06-12 |first=Parmy |last=Olson |work=Forbes}}</ref> According to [[Alexa Internet]] that day had the biggest traffic to his blog and PodTech over their lifetime.<ref name="alexa.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?compare_sites=podtech.net&range=2y&size=medium&y=r&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscobleizer.wordpress.com%2F|title=Traffic report for Scobleizer blog and PodTech.net|work=Alexa.com|accessdate=2006-09-11}}</ref> [[June 28]] [[2006]] was his last day at Microsoft.

===PodTech===
In 2006 Robert joined [[PodTech]] with the title Vice President Media Development. On Monday, [[September 25]] Robert released his first episode of the "Scoble Show" at http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/

===Fast Company===

On [[December 11]], [[2007]], while taking part in a panel discussion at the LeWeb3 Conference, Scoble inadvertently leaked news (by loading up a post on TechCrunch) that he would be leaving PodTech on [[January 14]], [[2008]], and was likely to join Fast Company. Scoble acknowledged the news on his blog on [[December 12]] but stated that he had not yet signed on with Fast Company. He did a video interview about his plans [http://www.thomascrampton.com/2007/12/12/robert-scoble-after-podtech-and-his-plans-for-fast-company/ here] and leased studio space from [[Revision3]].

On [[January 31]], [[2008]], Scoble dedicated all his photos to the [[public domain]].<ref>[http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/31/putting-photos-into-public-domain/ Putting photos into public domain]</ref>

On [[March 3]], [[2008]], Scoble launched [[FastCompany.tv]] with two shows: [[FastCompany Live]] and [[ScobleizerTV]]. He characterizes the first as "a show done totally on cell phones." The second is similar to his previous show on PodTech, only with better equipment and a camera operator. The show is recorded with two cameras in 720p HD.<ref name=FastCompany>[http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/03/fastcompanytv-launches/ Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive FastCompany.TV launches «<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Appearances==

On [[November 14]], [[2007]], he was a contestant on a [[game show]] at NewTeeVee Live<ref>[http://live.newteevee.com/gameshow Web Video Celebrity Game Show — NewTeeVee Live<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> featuring other [[internet celebrities]] such as [[Veronica Belmont]], [[Casey McKinnon]], [[Cali Lewis]], [[Kevin Rose]], [[Justin Kan]], and others.<ref>http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/10/31/businesswire20071031005523r1.html</ref>

On [[April 1]], [[2008]], [[The Register]] ran an April fool's spoof claiming Robert Scoble was actually an IBM bot<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/ibm_scoble_nano/ IBM unveils nano-projector based VirtuaHuman with 1TB of memory | The Register<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

On [[November 6]], [[2006]], Robert appeared as a panelist on a CSPA<ref>[http://www.cspa.com/ Chinese Software Professionals Association]</ref> event called "The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing"<ref>[http://www.cspa.com/eventdetail.php?eid=20061106 The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing]</ref>

==Unit of Measurement==

In September 2008 [http://www.followcost.com followcost.com], a website which calculates how annoying it will be to follow anyone on [[Twitter]], invented the milliscoble unit of measurement defined as: "1/1000th of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert Scoble as of 10:09 CST September 25, 2008." At that time, Scoble was averaging 21.21 tweets per day, so a milliscoble is 0.02121 tweets per day. A person with a milliscoble rating of 1000 will be as annoying to follow as Scoble.<ref name="milliscoble">{{cite web |url=http://followcost.com/about/milliscoble |title=What's a milliscoble? |date=[[2008-09-25]] |accessdate=2008-12-04}}</ref>

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==References==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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*[http://scobleizer.com/ Scobleizer] - Robert Scoble's weblog
*[http://scobleizer.com/ Scobleizer] - Robert Scoble's weblog
*[http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/ ScobleShow] - PodTech.net's ScobleShow
*[http://beta.zooomr.com/people/scobleizer/insidephotos Photos of scobleizer]
*[http://uk.intruders.tv/Robert-Scoble,-top-tech-blogger,-talks-about-Europe-and-video_a258.html Robert Scoble interview at Le Web3 in Paris France December 2007] video
*[http://www.fastcompany.tv/ FastCompany.tv], where Scoble currently works
*[http://www.twitter.com/scobleizer/ Scoble on Twitter]
*[http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/ Scoble on FriendFeed]
*[http://friendfeed.com/rooms/scobleroom/ Talk About Scoble on FriendFeed]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/ Scoble on Flickr], where his photos are available to the public domain.
*[http://giovannidepaola.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/2008/12/da-parigi-leweb.html interview with Robert Scoble at Le Web 2008-Paris] <-- Video
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Robert Scoble
Born (1965-01-18) January 18, 1965 (age 59)
Occupation(s)Video blogger, Fast Company
Known forBlogging, advocating technology
SpouseMaryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble

Robert Scoble (born January 18 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He has two sons, Patrick, from a previous marriage, and Milan. He currently works for Fast Company as a video blogger. He is also the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel.

Early life and education

Scoble was born in New Jersey in 1965, and grew up about a mile from Apple Computer's headquarters in Silicon Valley.[1] Some of his favorite childhood memories are working in his own garage with electronic stuff that his dad (William Scoble, PhD from Rutgers University in Materials Engineering) brought home from his jobs at Ampex and Lockheed Martin.[2]

His mother worked for Apple Computer as a member of a group of women led by Hildy Licht who built Apple IIs at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11 and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. He also had a summer job with Hewlett Packard, working on one of their production lines. Robert attended Hyde Junior High School in Cupertino, California[3]

In 1989 while studying in West Valley Community College he met Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and persuaded him to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the college journalism department.[4] His teacher made him set them up and learn all about how they worked.[5] After Loma Prieta earthquake hit he realized that he liked journalism a lot more than computer science.[6]

In 1993 he dropped out without finishing his degree in Journalism from San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications (he still has one class to complete[5][7]).

Steve Sloan (Information Technology Consultant at SJSU help desk) recalls that during his time at the university "he was a Mac Evangelist and he was not afraid to install all kinds of buggy beta software and weird hacks on the old Apple computers other people used to get real work done".[8]

Career

Scoble began his career in the 1980s helping run a discount camera store in San Jose (LZ Premiums). He sold cheap cameras with small or no profits, but made money from accessories.

After college he was working for Fawcette Technical Publications (as anything man - design, editing, helping plan the conferences like VBITS and VSLive!). His current wife Maryam was also working for Fawcette.

During the mid-90's Robert helped co-chair the Visual Basic SIG for SDForum, and was a frequent attendee and organizer for numerous local tech user groups.

In the late 90's Robert worked for Winnov (manufacturer of webcams) supporting webcam users and was very active in Microsoft's NetMeeting support newsgroups. He was named a Microsoft MVP for this activity and maintaining a busy NetMeeting information website. He retained his MVP status up to the time he became a Microsoft employee.

Dave Winer had told him "that blogging was hot," so he left Fawcette and joined Winer's UserLand Software, which was a content management and blogging software startup. He worked for John Robb as Director of Marketing. After the startup ran out of money and was unable to pay his salary, Robert worked for free for a month and eventually had to switch jobs.

He found a job at NEC Mobile Solutions from a Craigslist posting as Sales Support Manager for TabletPC. His job responsibility was to answer all the phones and all the emails with support/sales requests. He had started using blogs (a skill learned in UserLand) to provide tech support and listen to feedback from NEC customers.

His blog was noticed by Vic Gundotra (then General Manager of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft), and Robert accepted his offer to work at Microsoft.

Scoble has long been a prominent advocate of both RSS technology and the Tablet PC.[9][6]

Microsoft

Scoble, Longhorn Evangelist

Robert Scoble joined Microsoft in May 2003. Scoble was part of the Channel 9 MSDN Video team, where he produced videos that showcased Microsoft employees and products.

Although Scoble often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized his own employer and praised its competitors (such as Apple Computer and Google). He was unusual in the level of access he offered to his users, which included publishing his cell phone number on his blog and urging people to contact him directly with issues, as well as accepting comments on his blog. His support for Microsoft in his blog, however, drew controversy and in February 2005, he became the first person to earn the newly coined moniker of "spokesblogger."

The Economist described Robert Scoble's influence in its February 15 2005 edition:[10]

He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience

On June 10 2006 Scoble announced[11] he was leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as vice president of media development with a higher salary accompanied by "a quite aggressive stock option"[12] offer that could make him wealthy if his new company succeeded.[13][14] According to Alexa Internet that day had the biggest traffic to his blog and PodTech over their lifetime.[15] June 28 2006 was his last day at Microsoft.

PodTech

In 2006 Robert joined PodTech with the title Vice President Media Development. On Monday, September 25 Robert released his first episode of the "Scoble Show" at http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/

Fast Company

On December 11, 2007, while taking part in a panel discussion at the LeWeb3 Conference, Scoble inadvertently leaked news (by loading up a post on TechCrunch) that he would be leaving PodTech on January 14, 2008, and was likely to join Fast Company. Scoble acknowledged the news on his blog on December 12 but stated that he had not yet signed on with Fast Company. He did a video interview about his plans here and leased studio space from Revision3.

On January 31, 2008, Scoble dedicated all his photos to the public domain.[16]

On March 3, 2008, Scoble launched FastCompany.tv with two shows: FastCompany Live and ScobleizerTV. He characterizes the first as "a show done totally on cell phones." The second is similar to his previous show on PodTech, only with better equipment and a camera operator. The show is recorded with two cameras in 720p HD.[17]

Appearances

On November 14, 2007, he was a contestant on a game show at NewTeeVee Live[18] featuring other internet celebrities such as Veronica Belmont, Casey McKinnon, Cali Lewis, Kevin Rose, Justin Kan, and others.[19]

On April 1, 2008, The Register ran an April fool's spoof claiming Robert Scoble was actually an IBM bot[20]

On November 6, 2006, Robert appeared as a panelist on a CSPA[21] event called "The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing"[22]

Unit of Measurement

In September 2008 followcost.com, a website which calculates how annoying it will be to follow anyone on Twitter, invented the milliscoble unit of measurement defined as: "1/1000th of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert Scoble as of 10:09 CST September 25, 2008." At that time, Scoble was averaging 21.21 tweets per day, so a milliscoble is 0.02121 tweets per day. A person with a milliscoble rating of 1000 will be as annoying to follow as Scoble.[23]

Bibliography

  • Scoble, Robert (2006). Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471747192. We live in a time when most people don't trust big companies. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessyear=, |origmonth=, |accessmonth=, |chapterurl=, and |origdate= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

References

  1. ^ Rubel, Steve (2004-04-29). "Q&A with Robert Scoble on Blogging, Media and PR". Retrieved 2006-08-26. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ Scoble, Robert (2003-12-31). "How Silicon Valley Won the Cold War". The Scobleizer Weblog. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ Scoble, Robert (2003-06-01). "Postings for [[June 1]], [[2003]]". The Scobleizer Weblog. Retrieved 2006-08-26. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  4. ^ Scoble, Robert (2005-10-23). "Woz's math puzzle". The Scobleizer Weblog. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ a b Microsoft MainFunction (2005-11-18). "Meet Robert Scoble!". MSDN Academic Alliance Community Center. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b Scoble, Robert (2004-08-14). "A Good About Page". D. Keith Robinson blog. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Comment from Robert with his early life biography
  7. ^ Scoble, Robert (2006-11-16). "Robert Scoble still need 3 credits to graduate". Retrieved 2006-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Sloan, Steve (2005-02-15). "Robert Scoble's Visit". Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Scoble, Robert (2004-04-16). "I'm the video guy". MSDN Channel9. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Robert posting about his education and work experience
  10. ^ "Chief humanising officer". The Economist. 2005-02-10. Retrieved 2006-08-26. An article that describes Scoble's role at Microsoft
  11. ^ Scoble, Robert (2006-06-10). "Correcting the Record about Microsoft". The Scobleizer Weblog. Retrieved 2006-08-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Robert posting about why he left Microsoft
  12. ^ "Blogger Scoble Quits Microsoft". Australian IT. 2006-06-12.
  13. ^ "Top Microsoft Blogger to Resign". BBC News. 2006-06-12.
  14. ^ Olson, Parmy (2006-06-12). "Ballmer's Microsoft Loses Admired Tech Evangelist". Forbes.
  15. ^ "Traffic report for Scobleizer blog and PodTech.net". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2006-09-11.
  16. ^ Putting photos into public domain
  17. ^ Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive FastCompany.TV launches «
  18. ^ Web Video Celebrity Game Show — NewTeeVee Live
  19. ^ http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/10/31/businesswire20071031005523r1.html
  20. ^ IBM unveils nano-projector based VirtuaHuman with 1TB of memory | The Register
  21. ^ Chinese Software Professionals Association
  22. ^ The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing
  23. ^ "What's a milliscoble?". 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2008-12-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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