Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger
I'm a blogger who writes about, videos, and photographs the tech industry
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The future of the blog with Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is the guy who runs Automattic, which makes WordPress and hosts this blog. Since they are about to come out with version 2.7, I wanted to have a conversation with Matt and pick his brain about the future of the blog. Its long, but this is one of my favorite interviews, hope you enjoy ...
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Nokia N97: the ultimate Facebook device
Nokia just announced the N97. I got a chance to play with it last night and realized they have built the ultimate Facebook device. Now, Im sure, lots of you will wonder how it compares to the iPhone. Well, for a Facebook user it isnt even close: the new Nokia device wins hands down. Why? Lets compar ...
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Nokias touchiest week
Weve arrived in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers. When we got here a Nokia executive met me and bragged that the Internet has no clue what they will announce this week. I asked what about the touch screen cell phone that Ive seen rumors about? He said t ...
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Social network advertising: not your fathers banner ad
When i visited the San Jose Mercury News yesterday, what did we talk about? Advertising and how newspapers were going to make it online. Well, one trend were seeing big time is the move to social networks. Facebook alone has more than 100 million people on it. When you add MySpace, Microsofts new ne ...
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Ciscos new datacenter: does more, lower cost
Lets say you are a bank, like Washington Mutual, and youve been forced to join another bank. What happens to your data center? How do the IT guys left in charge reduce cost? What other things are happening in the data center to squeeze cost out and return investment dollars fast? Well, today I went ...
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A taxi business in Shanghai, China?
One of the best VCs in the world is Gary Rieschel. He started Softbank and now is EMD at Qiming Venture Partners. When I visited him in China, he took me into a taxi where he showed me one of the businesses he was investing in. Cool conversation about China enterpreneurship too. As to China, Im stil ...
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Outlook for social media messaging inboxes
Fuser is something I took too immediately upon seeing it because it helps me with a new pain: keeping up with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media messaging systems. See, hundreds of people are trying to send me messages on those systems. But they dont work in old-school email systems like Micr ...
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Talking with 3Tera about cloud computing
3Teras co-founder Bert Armijo had a 10-minute chat with me on Friday about cloud computing and how he sees the enterprise usage of cloud computing evolving and how his firm stacks up.
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The Twitterization of Conversations
Yesterday I filmed a video about the half-life of conversations. When I started blogging back in 2000 a blog conversation could go for a week or more. Those days are long gone. In this video I cover why, and show you some ways that tools can be used to lengthen the conversations half life (which, on ...
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Close look at Vholdr, sports video camera
Vholdr is a sports video camera designed for sky diving, skateboarding, surfing, swimming, including on RC helicopters, etc. If you are into sports, you should check out this very cool camera, heres a short video I filmed on Friday with the founder of the company, Marc Barros, who showed me how it a ...
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Cool 3D cards from Israeli startup: Snapily
On Friday Snapilys founders visited me and showed me a bunch of cool 3D cards. They also made me some new 3D business cards that start conversations everytime I hand one to someone. Heres the video I filmed of how these things
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Look inside Meraki, wifi for cities
On Friday I visited Meraki. They build wifi devices for cities and businesses. San Franciscos wifi was built by them. So was Googles efforts in Mountain View, CA (Google was an investor). I shot two videos of CEO Sanjit Biswas: 1. A look at their new indoor products for businesses (just released las ...
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Obsessing about new news
Fred Wilson, a Venture Capitalist based in New York, writes this morning that hes obsessed with TechMeme and that hes noticing changes in his obsession (hes moving more toward Twitter and other places for his news). Oh, I grok that. I used to be obsessed with TechMeme too. Now Im just an average us ...
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Mike Arrington is wrong about Google search
Mike Arrington, founder of the famous tech blog TechCrunch, hates the new Google search features. They even tell you how to kill the new wiki-style features using GreaseMonkey on Firefox. Mike does take the time to explain the new features here, though. The problem is, Mike is wrong. These features ...
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Why I love the US auto industry
Ive been watching a lot of the talk about the US Auto Industry lately and I dont see many people sticking up for it. Thats partially because the execs in that industry are horribly clueless and are flying around private jets. Come on, you missed the chance to really pull some PR magic out of the air ...
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Disruptive Factories
Just a few minutes ago I was standing in the middle of a sea of cardboard boxes. They include power supplies for your XXXXXXX. Or new laptops made by XXXXXXXX. Or other consumer electronics goodies from brands you know and love. Sorry, the owner of the supply chain (Liam Casey founder of PCH) forced ...
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Things Ive learned in China so far
Just some quick impressions. 1. If you want to compete with your web service and keep copying from happening, do two things: 1. let users upload streaming, live, video. That drives the censors here nuts. 2. Make your system totally open so your users can leave. The Chinese dont understand that conce ...
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Not blogging from China. Heheh.
Well, at most of the places Ive been the past few days my blog (and all blogs on the wordpress.com domain) is blocked so I havent been able to post, or even read my blog. But Ive been posting a ton over on Twitter and on FriendFeed. Both of those sites are totally available in China and are fast. Ma ...
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Back to Tech
Were in San Franciscos airport right now on our way to Shanghai, China. Im mostly happy with how the politics came out, but now its time to get back to tech. If you unsubscribed or blocked me somewhere, sorry, but I did the same to a few people who were driving me batty. Now looking at TechMeme were ...
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Sign of the times: political TechMeme headline
The headline screams no one in tech can defend McCain. So, who wants to take up the other side? Anyone? I found two. John Dvorak bet me $100 that McCain would win. My producer, Rocky Barbanica, who was a software engineer for decades before switching careers, bet me another $100 that McCain would wi ...
Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger
