Would be really kewl if you could tell us what you found was very neat in the rss feed reader he was using. Maybe you have some close up shots?!
john
· 2 years ago
pretty good, this should really make us [the silicon valley people] of what is happening outside the box.
Among others Facebook is not used by everyone and long life to SIM card cellphones
corvida
· 2 years ago
Definitely would like to see that feed reader on my Q or maybe on the LG Voyager in the future. =) Greatness
Abstract
· 2 years ago
Scoble,
You may have been joking when you said "so yesterday...", but that's the prevailing attitude among geeks.
In the end, does it matter what anyone runs? The only people that really care are people who have something at stake like the founders of a particular company or the ad companies.
No one else cares. People are looking for cool and free. That's what it boils down to. If Facebook or any other of these little companies started charging a monthly or annual fee, you watch how quick they would shed users.
Email, IM, no RSS, whatever. Whatever people use is cool for them as long as they are getting the information they think they want.
I, for example, don't use RSS, no iPhone, no Internet-enabled devices on my person whatsover.
Yet, I know what is happening more than my geeky friends. I like going to each website I read, even thought I could read the feeds via RSS.
There is something about actually VISITING the websites in question to read posts, news, etc.
I like email. I like IM. I'm not changing until there are patently and obviously better solutions out there. RSS, Twitter, all that is not impressive to me since it does nothing really new or better.
Michael Woo
· 2 years ago
Lolz.. but Russia was one of the leading technologist in the past.. during the cold war that is :) Great blog..
Scope
· 2 years ago
Nay... Russian tech is one of its kind... Actually... I might be going to Moscow in a year's time. Maybe not. Russians never commercialise their tech the way IPOD does. Their techs are mainly for political use.
Scope.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Michael: they still are leading technologists. I cover that in my interview which will be up in a couple of weeks.
Kyle
· 2 years ago
Doesn't a lot of "internet" crime originate from Russia or former Soviet block countries? I ask because, if there is a skew there, it would be very interesting to know if the economic conditions of those countries impacted a brain drain on development of any of the aformentioned web media in favor of development towards black market products/profits? Maybe their best engineers are too busy developing phishing programs, etc.?
jeremy wright
· 2 years ago
Unsubscribe ;-)
Alex
· 2 years ago
(1)He isn’t using an iPhone. (2) He isn’t using Facebook. (2.5) He isn't on Woozyfly. (3) He’s reading blogs. (4) He’s running Russian RSS-reading software. (5) He reads Engadget, B5 Media, and TechCrunch. (6) He’s running Windows Mobile.
Alan Jones
· 2 years ago
I don't understand why you're always guffawing in your interviews. There's rarely anything funny happening. the guy being interviewed looks confused as well.
Timothy Post
· 2 years ago
Robert:
As an American living in Krasnodar, Russia I can tell you that the iPhone is the must have tech toy amongst young Russians today. I am going to the States next week and already 6 of my Russian friends have asked me to buy an iPhone for them.
Regarding Facebook, it's catching on. I had a guy living in Moscow contact me through Facebook yesterday asking questions about Krasnodar.
The "thing" to remember about Russian technology can be captured by the US Representative's comments last week about his visit to the Russian radar station in Azerbijian.
He noted that while the hardware in the station may have still been vacuum tubes the end results were still very impressive.
Bottom-line, the hardware and software in Russian is still a little bit behind the West (perhaps not for much longer considering the oil revenues with oil at $100 per barrel) but the "wetware" (i.e. brainpower) of the Russians is unmatched.
There's a saying which goes something like, "If you have a tough software problem. Give it to the Americans. If you have really difficult software problem, give it to the Indians. But if you have an impossible software problem, give it to the Russians."
TGP
krsnakhandelwal
· 2 years ago
May be due to the fear of unknown that afflicted many an early generations of Russians because the whole scene was never avaialable for them to see.
trademark registration
· 2 years ago
Did you know that you're listed as one of the "Top Posts" on WordPress? That's awesome...congrats!
Russian technologist
· 2 years ago
Actually, there is no OFFICIAL iPhone in Russia. Only unlocked ;) So, huyushki, my Apple fanboys
Dmitry Chestnykh
· 2 years ago
Alan Jones: Nah, he was not confused, he was drunk ;)
BTW, some people have unlocked iPhones here. You can buy one for ~$1300, fully unlocked and with Russian virtual keyboard.
Facebook? Yes, people who speak English use it. For others, there are like 3 or 4 social networks from major portals here.
Yakov
· 2 years ago
Rob, I suggest to read my posts on Blognation Russia at http://ru.blognation.com to get a feeling what is going on in Russia in Internet and mobile markets.
jeremy
· 2 years ago
Russians have their own social networking sites, like vkontakte.ru and the mamba system, and use them with much more frequency than google
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
I laugh because I enjoy life and cool tech makes me happy. If you don't get that you might not enjoy my show.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Dmitry: he wasn't drunk. I really hate it when people say shit like that. You try to get on a camera when someone's asking you stupid questions in a language that you didn't grow up with.
Jake Ludington
· 2 years ago
Robert: Re your post @ 23 at Dmitry, instead of blasting him, put him on camera. He's in Moscow and a Russian native making software, which might be exactly what you're looking for.
Dmitry Chestnykh
· 2 years ago
Robert: Hey, it was a joke! :) Maybe a stupid one... (Aren't we, Russians, famous for drinking? :))
Dmitry Chestnykh
· 2 years ago
jeremy: Yeah, vkontakte.ru is a Facebook knock off :(
Nikita Polyakov
· 2 years ago
Woooooow! As a Russian, but a technologist here in US. This post and the video are some what uncomfortable to me, as it might portray the country in bad light.
Russian Internet is moving/evolving a lot faster then US, except they don't care so much for a share of the US online traffic, culturally the sites and communities there would make no sense or be any valuable to average US geek so naturally you would not hear about them.
Basically, you are missing out, and you might not even know on what. But it will come out eventually.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Nikita: when I get the longer interview up I think you'll be pleased. I was a bit sensationalistic in the headline here but there's a lot of great things happening in Russia. My point here was that Russian technologists just might be cooler than we are here in the San Francisco area.
Sergey
· 2 years ago
Man you know nothing about modern Russia Many young fellows in Moscow have iPhones Russians drive "Toyota" and "Nissan" instead of "Lada" and Volga, use Google instead of Yandex, go to Italy for vacations instead of Sochi and "na derevnyu" Russians like technology and activly use it
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Sergey: I think you need to read my post again. Don't stop at the headline.
Dmitry Chestnykh
· 2 years ago
Sergey: I'm driving a Lada! :)
David McCulloch
· 2 years ago
For those interested, the application demonstrated by Yuri Ammosov of the Russian Venture Company was developed by SPB Software House of St. Petersburg. www.spbsoftwarehouse.com
Paul
· 1 year ago
With a population of 140 Millions, Russians have about 155 Millions cell phones :O)
All Comments
Among others Facebook is not used by everyone and long life to SIM card cellphones
You may have been joking when you said "so yesterday...", but that's the prevailing attitude among geeks.
In the end, does it matter what anyone runs? The only people that really care are people who have something at stake like the founders of a particular company or the ad companies.
No one else cares. People are looking for cool and free. That's what it boils down to. If Facebook or any other of these little companies started charging a monthly or annual fee, you watch how quick they would shed users.
Email, IM, no RSS, whatever. Whatever people use is cool for them as long as they are getting the information they think they want.
I, for example, don't use RSS, no iPhone, no Internet-enabled devices on my person whatsover.
Yet, I know what is happening more than my geeky friends. I like going to each website I read, even thought I could read the feeds via RSS.
There is something about actually VISITING the websites in question to read posts, news, etc.
I like email. I like IM. I'm not changing until there are patently and obviously better solutions out there. RSS, Twitter, all that is not impressive to me since it does nothing really new or better.
Actually... I might be going to Moscow in a year's time.
Maybe not.
Russians never commercialise their tech the way IPOD does. Their techs are mainly for political use.
Scope.
(2) He isn’t using Facebook.
(2.5) He isn't on Woozyfly.
(3) He’s reading blogs.
(4) He’s running Russian RSS-reading software.
(5) He reads Engadget, B5 Media, and TechCrunch.
(6) He’s running Windows Mobile.
As an American living in Krasnodar, Russia I can tell you that the iPhone is the must have tech toy amongst young Russians today. I am going to the States next week and already 6 of my Russian friends have asked me to buy an iPhone for them.
Regarding Facebook, it's catching on. I had a guy living in Moscow contact me through Facebook yesterday asking questions about Krasnodar.
The "thing" to remember about Russian technology can be captured by the US Representative's comments last week about his visit to the Russian radar station in Azerbijian.
He noted that while the hardware in the station may have still been vacuum tubes the end results were still very impressive.
Bottom-line, the hardware and software in Russian is still a little bit behind the West (perhaps not for much longer considering the oil revenues with oil at $100 per barrel) but the "wetware" (i.e. brainpower) of the Russians is unmatched.
There's a saying which goes something like, "If you have a tough software problem. Give it to the Americans. If you have really difficult software problem, give it to the Indians. But if you have an impossible software problem, give it to the Russians."
TGP
BTW, some people have unlocked iPhones here. You can buy one for ~$1300, fully unlocked and with Russian virtual keyboard.
Facebook? Yes, people who speak English use it. For others, there are like 3 or 4 social networks from major portals here.
to get a feeling what is going on in Russia in Internet and mobile markets.
Russian Internet is moving/evolving a lot faster then US, except they don't care so much for a share of the US online traffic, culturally the sites and communities there would make no sense or be any valuable to average US geek so naturally you would not hear about them.
Basically, you are missing out, and you might not even know on what. But it will come out eventually.
you know nothing about modern Russia
Many young fellows in Moscow have iPhones
Russians drive "Toyota" and "Nissan" instead of "Lada" and Volga, use Google instead of Yandex, go to Italy for vacations instead of Sochi and "na derevnyu"
Russians like technology and activly use it
www.spbsoftwarehouse.com