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local search directory — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:54:51 -0000

I realize that more local businesses are increasing their ad budgets towards the Facebook direction.

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mutiny — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:43:39 -0000

I find importing your blog to notes on facebook very useful. Your friends and network are always updated whenever there is a new post.

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Ramon Ray — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:32:37 -0000

Plaxo is IT - ladies and guys. It automatically lets you see what those in your plaxo rolodex are posting!!!! Way cool

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hellobeautifullove — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:48:08 -0000

Everyone keeps talking about facebook! I need to check it out.

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Preston — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:35:22 -0000

@Chris #26 - I said "probably longer, I don't know." The point is, THIS STUFF ISN'T NEW!! This stuff has been around long enough for me to get two graduate degrees. Why are we talking about facebook? Sure, the google reader integration with facebook, that's new, but only because google reader. That's a cool post. But there's like 10 posts on facebook in the past couple weeks (I haven't fact-checked that, just saying what it feels like). I guess there's not much else to talk about right now.

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Ashish — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:20:11 -0000

I was reading Asimov's Foundation Edge - in which there is a planet called Gaia - a superorganism which comprises humans, trees, plants et al. So anytime someone asks a Gaian organism, 'Who is Gaia?' - they go 'I am Gaia'. The also use pronouns in the following manner - 'I/We/Gaia would like to go to the toilet'. The 'Robert Scoble is media' bit sounds too much like those Gaia fellas. I can already imagine reading Scoble next post which goes 'I/me/media approve of the iPhone...'. Or Sebastien's, or mine for that matter.

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Sierra Leone — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:16:47 -0000

It's a great idea and I like it. FB has definitely become a platform and is no longer a pure social network in the original sense.

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:11:21 -0000

Reality: OK, I guess I should have added "intellectual capital" to that list.

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reality checker — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:05:17 -0000

"Silicon Valley is the world’s most powerful economic engine."

Excuse me while I clean the coffee I've just splurted over my keyboard.

Your statement might be true in your microcosmic view of the world, but in the real one? Got facts to prove this? Last time I looked there weren't many oil fields in San Jose.

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jerry — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:11:16 -0000

facebook is a great way to view others opinions while articulating your own.

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André Hedetoft — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:23:39 -0000

Bob: That's an awesome idea! I'd love that in one way or another!

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:59:01 -0000

Kevin: actually I +did+ see that. Even if I didn't read your blog (I subscribe) it also popped up on a Google Blog search for Podtech.

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kevinmarks — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:30:09 -0000

Exactly Robert, on the web we all mediate each other. Your linkblog is on my reading list. If mine was on yours, you'd have seen this last week:

http://epeus.blogspot.com/2...

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Clyde Smith — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:12:51 -0000

Aren't you the one that said they were taking an email sabbatical of some sort?

Between twitter and facebook, I can see why.

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:18:33 -0000

SG: I am not paid to write about facebook. Seagate is my only sponsor.

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Chris — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:20:09 -0000

"But what I don’t get is this, Facebook has been around for like 4-5 years, probably longer"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

3 years. Facts suck right.
I'm done trying to pick apart VC voodoo though.
The best thing is to ignore them and continue evolving in the real world.

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Jerome Paradis — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:22:56 -0000

I'm also a recent adopter of Facebook, after Robert spoke so much about it. I realized that it is getting mainstream.

For example, I met Sebastien Provencher at Yulbiz, a Montreal Web and bloggers monthly meet-up. Since then, he's on my Facebook friends. Today, on Facebook, I see that he's also now friend with Robert Scoble as he's been on other networks. I went looking at Sebastien's blog and see his post and I see he's known Robert in person for a while. And I see he has nailed down what Robert's doing with these networks.

Anyway, I don't know what I'm getting at, but these little things make me like Facebook even more.

In any case, Scoble's usage of different social networking tools, including Twitter and Pownce has made me have a second look at some things I would have missed or did not follow through from his blog. There's seems to be a method to the madness, because it looks like it's working!

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SG — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:06:40 -0000

Scoble, who is paying you how much to indulge in this positive post frenzy about facebook ?

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Preston — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:38:04 -0000

Okay, I love this site and read it all the time, but I have a thought. For a little bit, there was a big kick on Twitter. Seemed like every post was on that. Cool. Now, every post seems to be on Facebook. Cool, fine. I appreciate that.

But what I don't get is this, Facebook has been around for like 4-5 years, probably longer, I don't know. Sure, they've made some new moves recently, but this isn't new stuff. You talk about new stuff. Which leads me to two other thoughts: is this spokesblogging, kind of like the people_ready campaign? Or is it because it's just now opened to non .edu addresses that the tech world is starting to play with it? I mean, I'm not a tech genius, but I would have expected this kind of talk 2-3 years ago. Also, there are the rumors of MSFT's purchase of Facebook. With your prior relationship to MSFT, is this somehow related? Conversely, there have been rumors of your work for Facebook, which are probably false, but is this somehow connected? I just can't get all this interest in Facebook. It's just another social network!

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Chris — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:22:41 -0000

MySpace is from LA, which is about 5 hours away.
The others you mention are not the types of sites that have shot up from zero to billions within a few months, such as those in Silicon Valley. Skype actually offers a networked IP telephony system that took considerable development to make happen. Doubleclick has been on the web for 11 years now, and slowly built up it's value over a long span of time. Bebo and weblogs I'm not very familiar with businesswise.

YouTube started promoting itself regularly in late 2005, and sold to Google for 1.65B in October of the following year.
Facebook opened in mid 2004 and 3 years later is apparently worth 6B or more and rising with every blog post.

That just doesn't happen. Excuse me for thinking that this is coordinated and contrived.

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Stephen Davies — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:08:18 -0000

Fair play, they're valid points. Still feel funny with the FB thing though and think your situation is very much a unique one. For the majority of the world, however, it's a little different.

Cheers,

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mario romero — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:00:54 -0000

The main thing to consider is that FB isn't a social network anymore (in the sense that MySpace or Bebo are) it has become a platform. Pure and Simple. Now that my sound like marketing hype if you haven't actually looked at the platform but I assure you, it's not. The effects that this will have on the whole web industry (not only FB apps) I think will be hugely important (allready are?).. take openID for example... what's the point anymore?? If you were planning to use openID on your site.. why not just integrate with FB login instead??? your users won't have to type their info for a gazillion time and you get all the viral sexyness of the Social Graph.. as someone said in the FB Developers newsgroup, now anytime someone thinks up of web idea that involves a social component, he'll have to consider if it wouldn't be better/easier/faster using the FB platform.

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Robert Scoble — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:00:08 -0000

Chris: Silicon Valley is the world's most powerful economic engine. Not surprising to me. But where did Bebo come from? Not here. Where did MySpace come from? Not here. Where did Skype come from? Not here. Where did Weblogsinc come from? Not here. Where did DoubleClick come from? Not here.

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Robert Scoble — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:56:45 -0000

If you want to "let your hair down" I would HIGHLY recommend NEVER doing that online. For a whole lot of reasons. At least if "letting your hair down" would reveal you to be a person that doesn't have integrity. For instance, if you are a priest in your day job and then smoke dope at night, I wouldn't put that online anywhere.

But I don't live my life like that. My friends online are pretty much the same people I'd end up talking to at a party, or hanging out with here at the house. Heck, this morning I had breakfast with the founder of TangoDiva.com.

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Chris — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:56:30 -0000

"I think you don’t have any clue, though, about what’s going on at Facebook. EVERYONE in Silicon Valley is talking about them"

You're right about the Silicon Valley part, that's why I'm trying to hire somebody down there.

Though you didn't personally promote myspace, they did have other channels that did. Such as comcast, G4, and other web channels. Without ever mentioning that it was a promotion.

It's more than a coincidence that most websites sold for over a couple million bucks are based without exception in the San Francisco Bay area of California.