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Re: What I learned

The a-list is a closed list — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:36:13 -0000

I'll preparing a presentation for Facebook Camp Montreal on how Facebook could compete/hit at Google. And MSN could steal huge search share now they've got a deal to serve Facebook's text ads. Interested in the video/transscript, Mr. Scoble?

Re: What I learned

Matt Burgess — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:50:04 -0000

"7. Jumping into a battlefront (SEO’s vs. Google) without really understanding how that warfront will go."

Seriously?
C'mon Robert, there is no war between SEO's and Google. By putting the statement in those words, you are still implying that ALL seo's are evil.

It comes across like a snide attack on SEO's, only four points after:
"3. Attacking SEOs needlessly..."

You might want to clarify that.

Re: What I learned

Ami — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:43:38 -0000

In the world of surgery, there is a saying that if you do not have any complications it means you haven't operated enough

It's all publicity and as long as you are willing to share so we can all learn from eah other's mistakes, don't sweat it

Re: What I learned

Dan Winkler — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:27:04 -0000

I watched your video where you showed that Mahalo is better than Google at searching for "HDTV" and I thought I'd try it with my current research interest, "composting toilets". Well, Mahalo has nothing at all about "composting toilets" and google has plenty, with no SEO problems. I think "HDTV" is a bit of a special case -- it's a topic that tech bloggers write a lot about and that SEOs fight over. But "composting toilets" is at the other extreme -- nothing at all from the tech bloggers and no SEOs are messing with it.

Re: What I learned

David — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:24:56 -0000

I want to briefly explain my belief on the future of search.

I believe we must granulate and organize content in viewable trees. And we will need better tree and multi-dim spreadsheet software to do such, which I'm working on. Algorithms will assist us, if not do a bulk of the work. But the data will be open, so anybody can sort it, not just private algorithms. Also I posted a video about tagging and search on youtube at davidnode

Peacz

Re: What I learned

Byron — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:15:08 -0000

@52 "Byron: I’m glad I’m not associated with you in business"

Well,I'm not sure what you are tyring to say there. I was simply tyring to say that I think you would be much better off disassociating yourself, careerwise, with Podtech.

Re: What I learned

Dan Guy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:57:02 -0000

"Dan: do you really know what you’re going to want to be doing in 2009?"

Yes.

"Do you sign exclusive employment contracts that long into the future?"

Yes. A lot of people do: it's called enlisting.

2009 is barely more than 15 months away; I would have expected you to at least sign to be there for the next year, if not the entirety of 2008.

Re: What I learned

David Phillips — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:55:27 -0000

The psychologists and brain scientists are on your side. My view is that we have only just touched on the potential and power of social networks and as they evolve (assuming that the control freaks don't have too much sway) the commons 'recommendation, evaluate and publish' capability will be cut a swathe in the need for search.

Re: What I learned

Mike — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:44:05 -0000

hi robert,

i think search engines are going to evolve into answer, facts and recommendation engines. I talk a little about it here:
http://www.michaelhoover.or...

You'll still have pure search, of course...but that functionality will be commoditized over time(first steps are nutch and the internet archive tools). Once you have a vast majority of the webs url's in a database, you can apply a ranking algorithm in context: pagerank, peoplerank, authority, raw inbound link count, etc. It's not easy, but it's also not impossible.

Re: What I learned

Robert Scoble — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:00:52 -0000

TDavid:

1) Speed to produce. It's the fastest to produce video technology out there. Far faster than YouTube or anything else I've used.
2) Chat. The chat lets you upload video, audio, text.
3) Distribution. It's on Facebook and Nokia mobile phones and lets me upload video and audio from my Nokia phone.

Re: What I learned

TDavid — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:19:09 -0000

Robert - maybe I've missed the post, but why did you choose Kyte.tv over other offerings? The reason I ask isn't to criticize but out of curiosity. I'm wondering if I missed something special about Kyte.tv (?)

Re: What I learned

Robert Scoble — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:54:04 -0000

Dan: do you really know what you're going to want to be doing in 2009? Do you sign exclusive employment contracts that long into the future? I might if I were Barry Bonds and had millions of dollars on the table, but that isn't the case.

Silicon Valley moves way too fast to take such a long-term approach with your career.

Byron: I'm glad I'm not associated with you in business.

Re: What I learned

Dan Guy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:14:11 -0000

"I just signed a contract with PodTech for Q1, 2008"

That's not really that long. Why only Q1? Why not an exclusive contract through 2009?

Re: What I learned

Liliya — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:36:05 -0000

you know as I read through this blog the following thoughts ran through my head
1- the NYT has a corrections page, but it doesn't really get much notice.
2- I recently read an article about a guy turning soft after he had a kid. Are you turning soft before having another?
3- a lawyer once taught me the greatest lesson of all: never apologize! ....the others will do it for you. (<- literally)

Re: What I learned

Byron — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:43:06 -0000

@32 "For Valleywag: I just signed a contract with PodTech for Q1, 2008, so am not going anywhere. Nice guessing, though!"

It appears you are no fan of Valleywag, but is it really worth committing career suicide to prove them wrong? You can do better than PodTech.

Re: What I learned

frederick — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:27:55 -0000

hi Robert
the most important it's that you put all your passion on that. and I like to read your blog.. regard FHS

Re: What I learned

Charles Edward Frith — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:09:20 -0000

Point 5. Kyte.tv, the technology I used, is a lightening rod of its own. People either hated it or loved it.

..erm or like me they are ambivalent.

Re: What I learned

Roger — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:53:44 -0000

Monkey Boy, no internet? No mobile signal? In the UK?? You must live in a stone cottage on a tiny islet in a far-flung corner of the Outer Hebrides...

Re: What I learned

Sebastien Provencher — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:50:20 -0000

Robert,

I think what you did with your videos was trying to put in words what you felt intuitively in the Web zeitgeist. You learn by experience and you try to share those intuitions with us. I think you ruffled some cartesian feathers when you tried to support you theory but it does not matter. You contributed to making all of us think more about how social media & social search could impact our ecosystem. People will build on these ideas and improve them.

Re: What I learned

monk.e.boy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:40:46 -0000

I call it the "Scoble God Curve", Scoble starts off at the bottom of the curve, slowly going up the slope of 'I am humble', then to 'I know all' up up up to 'My posts are more important than Gods' until he gets a bit too excited and posts something with far to much excitement and no real content. Then crash. The curve drops back to normal. Then slowly start building up again :-)

It is a kind of saw tooth, shark tooth, wave shape. Slowly up the slope, peak, then crash. I like it when he's up near the God status. The comments come flooding in. The trolls start their engines. Big media start taking an interest...

haha...

Like it?

BTW SEO is important. How can I get the word out about my amazing, FREE, OPEN SOURCE, flash charts ( http://teethgrinder.co.uk/o... ) without SEO? :-) :-P

SEO helps tell people the my charts are GPL and LGPL so can be included in commercial web sites - no problem! :-D

I wish I had an iPhone. We don't even have a land line at home, no internet :-( No mobile phone signal... hahaha welcome to the UK

monk.e.boy

Re: What I learned

Rodney Rumford — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:36:47 -0000

I just wanted to tell you I totally support the fact that you took a position and still hold to your main premise: that social graph based search is going to upset the Google cart.

The topic itself, the fact that google, and facebook were subjects in the videos and the fact that it was YOU is why the story was so galvanizing. Lot's of smart people (Danny, Dave, and thousands more) were paying you attention. Attention currency sometimes comes at a price.

I think part of the reason that this firestorm spread so fast is that people were watching YOU and then chatting via the Kyte.tv player that got embedded everywhere. I use it for my channels of distributing video/slideshows, etc. as well. I think that it is the first time that they have embedded it at techcrunch

I had a blast participating in the chat sessions for hours over the course of the first day. What some people might not be aware of is that you had well over 600 people continually on the kyte channel watching video and chatting. That was really crazy.

It is nice to see the chat at a level that is easier to follow since it has slowed down.

Finally; admitting where you are wrong takes balls. Lot's of people can never do that.

Cheers! Keep Creating!
Rodney Rumford
www.facereviews.com

Re: What I learned

Simon Brocklehurst — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:17:38 -0000

@Danny Sullivan

Maybe this is just a sensitive topic for you. In his video, I thought Robert was clearly talking about SEO specifically in the context of SEO paid links. Do you agree that SEO paid links degrade the search experience for people that use Google? In other words, do you agree that SEO paid links are a "bad thing"?

Too many SEOs equivocate on this issue; and that is a big part of the reason why the whole field of SEO has a bad name in some quarters. I hope you can be clear for us.

Re: What I learned

Robert Scoble — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:24:00 -0000

Anona: I'm at PodTech and not looking for a new job. If and when I ever am in need of different employment, my readers will know I'm looking, believe me.

Re: What I learned

Paul — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:00:28 -0000

Yeah, there were some mistakes, but regardless this is probably my favorite post of yours ever...most of the key points are right on target. And besides, at least you: a) found something that you were passionate about and spoke up about it, and b) put your cajones on the line with something that was almost guaranteed to cause a firestorm.

Re: What I learned

anona — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:52:58 -0000

C'mon, Roberto. Nobody cares about Calacanis or Mahalo, We're here for one thing only: where's your next job going to be? If it's not Facebook or Kyle.tv, tells us where? (And not some Q1 '08 nonsense either. :-)