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'''Robert Scoble''' (born [[January 18]], [[1965]]) is a |
'''Robert Scoble''' (born [[January 18]], [[1965]]) is a pro masturbator and former mascot for [[Microsoft]] until 2006 and maintains the popular [[blog]], [http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Scobleizer]. On [[June 10]] [[2006]] [http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/correcting-the-record-about-microsoft/ Scoble announced] he is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as Vice President of Media Development. He currently lives in [[Bothell, Washington]] but is moving to Silicon Valley. |
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Although Scoble often promotes Microsoft products like [[Tablet PC]]s and [[Windows Vista]], at the same time he criticizes his own employer and praised its competitors (like [[Apple Computer]] and [[Google]]). However, some argue that the modest measure of criticism leveled at Microsoft and praise toward competitors serves only to give his Microsoft evangelism credibility. He publishes his cell phone number on his blog and urges people to contact him directly with issues, as well as accepting comments on his blog. |
Although Scoble often promotes Microsoft products like [[Tablet PC]]s and [[Windows Vista]], at the same time he criticizes his own employer and praised its competitors (like [[Apple Computer]] and [[Google]]). However, some argue that the modest measure of criticism leveled at Microsoft and praise toward competitors serves only to give his Microsoft evangelism credibility. He publishes his cell phone number on his blog and urges people to contact him directly with issues, as well as accepting comments on his blog. |
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Revision as of 12:10, 13 June 2006
Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is a pro masturbator and former mascot for Microsoft until 2006 and maintains the popular blog, Scobleizer. On June 10 2006 Scoble announced he is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as Vice President of Media Development. He currently lives in Bothell, Washington but is moving to Silicon Valley.
Although Scoble often promotes Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, at the same time he criticizes his own employer and praised its competitors (like Apple Computer and Google). However, some argue that the modest measure of criticism leveled at Microsoft and praise toward competitors serves only to give his Microsoft evangelism credibility. He publishes his cell phone number on his blog and urges people to contact him directly with issues, as well as accepting comments on his blog.
Scoble has long been known as a prominent advocate of both RSS technology and the Tablet PC. He has previously been involved with both these technologies in a professional capacity: at NEC Mobile Solutions, where he was sales support manager, and UserLand Software, where he was director of marketing.
Besides blogging, Scoble was part of the Channel9 MSDN Videos team producing educational and evangelist mini-films targeted towards students and professional developers.
The Economist described Robert Scoble's influence in its February 15, 2005 edition: [1]
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.
Early life
Robert was born in New Jersey. He grew up about a mile from Apple Computer's headquarters in Silicon Valley. [2] 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 [3]) brought home from his jobs at Ampex or Lockheed Martin. His mom worked for Apple Computers, building Apple II's at home, too, so he learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11. He has helped his mom to build several hundred Apple II's [4]. Also he worked a summer for Hewlett Packard on one of their production lines. [5]
Attended Hyde Junior High School in Cupertino, CA.
In 1989 while studing in West Valley Community College he met Steve Wozniak [6], co-founder of Apple Computer, and talked him out of $40,000 worth of Macintoshes for college journalism department. [7]. Teacher made him set them up and learn all about how they worked. [8]
In 1993 he graduated with a degree in Journalism from San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. According to Steve Sloan (Information Technology Consultant at SJSU help desk) during his study in 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". [9]
Bibliography
- Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, (2006) Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. ISBN 047174719X
External links
- Scobleizer - Robert Scoble's web log
- The Scoble Meter - Robert Scoble's Executive Dashboard
References
- Chief Humanizing Officer - an article in The Economist that describes Scoble's role at Microsoft (February 10, 2005)
- How he got the name Scobelizer - Steve Sloan posting about Scoble
- A Good About Page - Comment from Robert with his early life biography
- I'm the video guy - Robert posting about his education and work expirience
- Correcting the Record about Microsoft - Robert posting about why he got fired from Microsoft