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Robert Scoble
- PublicThe Open Cloud, er, +OpenStack , sure is dominating press mentions, according to Wired. http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/openstack-wins-2012-pr-hype-battle-for-cloud-computing-platforms#axzz2H3PtMSXa
One thing I'm seeing, as we write our book, "the Age of Context" that there's a huge amount of interest in a more flexible cloud. Open Source FTW!
Which cloud is your business betting on?
I just published a poll that you can watch instantly: http://gopollgo.com/which-cloud-is-your-business-betting-on
One thing I'm seeing, as we write our book, "the Age of Context" that there's a huge amount of interest in a more flexible cloud. Open Source FTW!
Which cloud is your business betting on?
I just published a poll that you can watch instantly: http://gopollgo.com/which-cloud-is-your-business-betting-on
Which cloud is your business betting on? »☑ OpenStack and/or Rackspace Cloud (largest user of OpenStack) ☑ Amazon ☑ CloudStack ☑ Eucalyptus ☑ OpenNebula ☑ Microsoft Azure ☑ Google Cloud ☑ Heroku (Salesforce)
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Hi Robert +Robert Scoble, thank you for popping this topic out.
Please allow me to exaggerate my thinking.
From a developer point of view, after browsing dozens of webpages about OpenStack, I still don't have a clear sense of what I can really do with it. All the docs are about how to set it up, how to install a VM on my laptop to simulate a cloud, or how to develop OpenStack itself.
But I just don't care.
I want to know how I'm going to connect my Eclipse or other IDE to it and get some work done.
On the other hand, if you consider Amazon EC2 or Google Cloud, they don't confuse the user with all that stuff: it's an internal issue.
I think OpenStack will really take off when it takes a user-centric perspective, far from sysadmin speech.
OpenStack is great, but it currently looks "Linux early days" too much!
Please allow me to exaggerate my thinking.
From a developer point of view, after browsing dozens of webpages about OpenStack, I still don't have a clear sense of what I can really do with it. All the docs are about how to set it up, how to install a VM on my laptop to simulate a cloud, or how to develop OpenStack itself.
But I just don't care.
I want to know how I'm going to connect my Eclipse or other IDE to it and get some work done.
On the other hand, if you consider Amazon EC2 or Google Cloud, they don't confuse the user with all that stuff: it's an internal issue.
I think OpenStack will really take off when it takes a user-centric perspective, far from sysadmin speech.
OpenStack is great, but it currently looks "Linux early days" too much!
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Robert Scoble
- PublicDo you treat your best customers like gods? SmugMug does.
They sent +Scott Jarvie a hoodie with his name stitched into it.
Scott is one of the top wedding and people photographers in the world and loves SmugMug ( http://www.smugmug.com ).
Since I am talking about what a startup did well in the comments I will bag on Startups. Turns out a lot of them don't do things as well as Smugmug....Expand this post »
They sent +Scott Jarvie a hoodie with his name stitched into it.
Scott is one of the top wedding and people photographers in the world and loves SmugMug ( http://www.smugmug.com ).
Since I am talking about what a startup did well in the comments I will bag on Startups. Turns out a lot of them don't do things as well as Smugmug....Expand this post »
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Great writeup +Robert Scoble...but something tells me if we ordered +Scott Jarvie a new one today, it would say "The Jarvie" not "Jarvie" :)
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Robert Scoble
- Public+Scott Jarvie on the beach with his HUGE flashlight. Great piece of technology. The whole thing is one big ass LED with a big ass battery. Cost? $400. See his latest photo to see how he used it to light up the cliffs in Half Moon Bay. That's here: https://plus.google.com/100962871525684315897/posts/HTYXH9YjBJ8
This is what real photographers do: they bring their own lights. Heheh.
This is what real photographers do: they bring their own lights. Heheh.
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Robert Scoble
- PublicI told you it was an awesome sunset tonight and Barry is a real master. Hear him talk about making this at http://soundcloud.com/scobleizer
How could I resist?
When +Scott Jarvie says "meet me at +Robert Scoble's house for a sunset shoot"... you say okay.
I'm glad I did, and as Robert was quick to point out this area where a small stream was flowing into the ocean, I will be quick to say "thanks Robert, great location".... and here you have it. I do hope the colors are decent. I'm not used to doing an edit on a little laptop.
Sunset date: January 3rd, 2013
Location: Half Moon Bay, California.
Where I live. (1 photo)
6 people were tagged in this album - Monique Yates, Ed Sweeney, Mike Spinak, Gordon Laing, Nissan Auerbach, and Justin Spelbrink
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sasha marya
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Robert Scoble
- PublicNice photo of me and +Maryam Scoble. Just shows that if you give a great photographer a few minutes with great background and light you'll get magic.
It's amazing to me when I hear that famous execs don't give photographers much time to work. That makes no sense to me at all.
It's amazing to me when I hear that famous execs don't give photographers much time to work. That makes no sense to me at all.
Scobleized
Impromptu couple pictures while taking sunset pictures along the shoreline in Half Moon Bay with +Robert Scoble and +Maryam Scoble
Then we had an awesome dinner and now we're playing with technology.
Loved doing the landscape/oceanscape pictures as well tonight... it's a great location here.
Impromptu couple pictures while taking sunset pictures along the shoreline in Half Moon Bay with +Robert Scoble and +Maryam Scoble
Then we had an awesome dinner and now we're playing with technology.
Loved doing the landscape/oceanscape pictures as well tonight... it's a great location here.
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Jennifer Tackman
Really lovely photo of both of you, Robert - what a wonderful opportunity with Scott.
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Robert Scoble
- PublicTonight we took photos with +Scott Jarvie, +Barry Blanchard, and +Monique Yates at an awesome sunset. Wait until you see their photos. It was one of those magical nights at the +Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay.
Oh, and here's a little audio for you to listen to: https://soundcloud.com/scobleizer/shooting-awesome-sunset-with about what we were doing.
Oh, and here's a little audio for you to listen to: https://soundcloud.com/scobleizer/shooting-awesome-sunset-with about what we were doing.
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David Bo Hansen Cartagena
Hi Robert.
Thanks for sharing. And for your recommendations. I will definetely follow those photographers which I guess you know well. I can see they produce some maqnifique photos!
David Cartagena
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Thanks for sharing. And for your recommendations. I will definetely follow those photographers which I guess you know well. I can see they produce some maqnifique photos!
David Cartagena
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Robert Scoble
- PublicHere's my answer to how you can improve your presence here on Google+.
How do I improve my social media presence? »Answer: Some ideas: 1. Improve your inbound. I spent a LOT of time organizing my friends and adding new people who are bringing me interesting stuff over the past year. Now my feeds are much more int...
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About a locked down Facebook - Yes, I've done that, hence the only thing you see in my public info there, is a pointer to my account here.
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Robert Scoble
- PublicThe Leap Motion vs. PrimeSense gesture war
I can just imagine the finger signals each of these companies are giving each other.
http://youtu.be/_d6KuiuteIA is +Leap Motion's video.
A World of 3D Sensing by PrimeSense is +PrimeSense's video.
I'll be seeing both next week at CES. ...Expand this post »
I can just imagine the finger signals each of these companies are giving each other.
http://youtu.be/_d6KuiuteIA is +Leap Motion's video.
A World of 3D Sensing by PrimeSense is +PrimeSense's video.
I'll be seeing both next week at CES. ...Expand this post »
Leap Motion represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive tha...
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Robert Scoble
- PublicmoTwin: the platform for sophisticated mobile apps
Happy New Year, here's a video of +Pascal Jaillon, VP of Product Management, at +moTwin Inc. which helps you build mobile apps.
The next generation apps will be context aware and have real additive purposes as Pascal Jaillon explains, VP of Product Management of Motwin. All mobile apps are built on a resilient network ensuring availability no matter if the app is native, web, or hybrid. While other platforms already exist to help developers build light apps, moTwin provides the only platform that meets the needs of enterprises.
http://motwin.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Motwin/342022469219156
https://twitter.com/motwin_inc
Happy New Year, here's a video of +Pascal Jaillon, VP of Product Management, at +moTwin Inc. which helps you build mobile apps.
The next generation apps will be context aware and have real additive purposes as Pascal Jaillon explains, VP of Product Management of Motwin. All mobile apps are built on a resilient network ensuring availability no matter if the app is native, web, or hybrid. While other platforms already exist to help developers build light apps, moTwin provides the only platform that meets the needs of enterprises.
http://motwin.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Motwin/342022469219156
https://twitter.com/motwin_inc
With moTwin Platform, developers can develop iOS and Android applications and also HTML 5 applications. The next generation apps will be context aware and ha...
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Robert Scoble
- PublicHappy New Year! A contextual future awaits. So says I in the BBC below. Or, as +Guy Kawasaki put it today at breakfast: a predictive one.
I predict you will have a great year.
Speaking of which, I hear there will be a bunch of geeks tonight at the The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay. Who should we call to bail +Brian Solis out of jail? Last time we partied together we almost got kicked out of France.
I predict you will have a great year.
Speaking of which, I hear there will be a bunch of geeks tonight at the The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay. Who should we call to bail +Brian Solis out of jail? Last time we partied together we almost got kicked out of France.
Getting it right in 2013 »The Mayan long calendar may have ended but we're still here - so the BBC's Fiona Graham finds out what the experts think 2013 could hold for technology.
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Rackspace's startup liaison officer helps small teams have a huge impact with cloud computing technology.
Introduction
As Startup Liaison for Rackspace, the Open Cloud Computing Company, I go around the world with Rocky Barbanica looking for what's happening on the bleeding edge of technology and report that here.
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If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com but my cell phone number is +1-425-205-1921.
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I'm now working at Rackspace as Startup Liaison Officer (I go around the world to study and make media about world-changing startups). You'll also see my videos on http://youtube.com/scobleizer but the best place to watch me now is on Google+, on Twitter or on my blog. Where I do my best work, though, is on Rackspace's Small Teams, Big Impact, site.
The real-time streaming web is changing my life faster than I can imagine, and lets me keep in touch with thousands of technology and business innovators all around the world.
I'm also the father of three sons, Patrick, 17, Milan, 4, and Ryan, 2. Lots of fun and they are all geeks in training too.
Anyway, visit some of my links to see more about me, especially my Wikipedia profile (I didn't edit any of it, that was done by people in the community) and feel free to drop me a line at scobleizer@gmail.com anytime you need something or want to talk about being on one of my video shows.
Oh, and, yes, I do answer my own cell phone and I do include that number on the Internet for you to use: +1-425-205-1921 and have for several years. I live in Half Moon Bay near the Ritz and would love to meet up with geeks/entrepreneurs if you are in town and I'm available.
The camera equipment I use? On my YouTube channel I use a Canon 5D MKII camera (costs about $2,500) with a 17-40mm F4.0 Canon L Series lens (costs about $900) and a Rode Stereo microphone (costs about $300) along with a Manfrotto monopod (costs about $100).
On building43.com we use two Panasonic HVX-200 cameras which are more expensive but optimized for shooting video (the Canon also does still photos and is expensive).
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Some suggested circles you can put me in:
- Technology enthusiasts.
- Passionate about technology.
- Startup lovers.
- Tech journalists.
- Geeks.
- Long-time Silicon Valley residents.
- San Francisco geeks.
- Social media experts.
- Video shows.
- Bloggers (especially geeky or tech).
- Connectors.
- Photo enthusiasts.
- iPad crazies.
- Gadget freaks.
- iPhone enthusiasts.
- Friends of entrepreneurs.
- Cloud computing fanatics.
- Web hosting experts.
- Big data fan.
- Rackspace employees.
- Tech news curators.
- Chasers of extraordinary experiences.
- Noisy dudes.
Bragging rights
I shook Steve Jobs' hand.
Occupation
Startup Liaison Officer for Rackspace. Searching for world-changing technologies.
Employment
- RackspaceStartup Liaison Officer, 2009 - present
- MicrosoftStrategist, Evangelism, 2003 - 2006
- NECSales Support, 2002 - 2003
- PodTechVice President, Media Development, 2006 - 2008
- Fawcette Technical PublicationsAssistant Editor, 1997 - 2001
- Mansueto VenturesManaging Director, Fast Company.tv, 2008 - 2009
- WinnovVice President, Marketing, 1995 - 1997
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- San Jose State University1993
- West Valley Community College
- Prospect High School
- Hyde Jr. High
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- Half Moon Bay, California, USA
- Cupertino, CA, USA
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Bothell, WA, USA
- Saratoga, CA, USA
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