Robert Scoble

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Scobleizer)

Template:Short description

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

Robert Scoble
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
BornScript error: No such module "person date".
Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedScript error: No such module "person date".
OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textAuthor
EmployerTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
OrganizationTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
AgentTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Known forBlogging, Advocating Technology
Notable creditTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
LabelTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
OpponentTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Template:Pluralize from text
SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from textMaryam Ghaemmaghami ScobleTemplate:Pluralize from text
PartnerTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Children3
Template:Pluralize from text

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for deprecated parameters".

Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He later worked for Fast Company as a video blogger, and then Rackspace and the Rackspace-sponsored community site Building 43 promoting breakthrough technology and startups.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Scoble was born in New Jersey in 1965, and grew up about a kilometer from Apple Computer’s head office in Silicon Valley.[4]

In 1993, he dropped out without finishing his degree in journalism from San Jose State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.[5][6][7]

Career

Microsoft

In June 2003, Scoble accepted a position at Microsoft. The Economist described Scoble’s influence in its February 15, 2005 edition:[8][9]

Page Template:Blockquote/styles.css has no content.

He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience

On June 10, 2006, Scoble announced[10] he was leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as vice president of media development with a higher salary accompanied by "a quite aggressive stock option"[11] offer that would have made him wealthy if his new company had succeeded.[12][13] According to Alexa Internet that day had the biggest traffic to his blog and PodTech over their lifetime.[14] June 28, 2006 was his last day at Microsoft.

Fast Company

On December 11, 2007, while taking part in a panel discussion at the LeWeb3 Conference, he inadvertently leaked news (by loading up a post on TechCrunch) that he would be leaving PodTech on January 14, 2008, and was likely to join Fast Company. He acknowledged the news on his blog on December 12 but stated that he had not yet signed on with Fast Company. He did a video interview about his plans[15] and leased studio space from Revision3.

On March 3, 2008, Scoble launched FastCompany.tv with two shows: FastCompany Live and ScobleizerTV. He characterizes the first as "a show done totally on cell phones." The second is similar to his previous show on PodTech, only with better equipment and a camera operator. The show is recorded with two cameras in 720p HD.[16]

Rackspace and Building 43

On March 14, 2009, Scoble announced via his blog and on the Gillmor Gang that he was joining Rackspace. As part of his work there, he teamed up with the company to develop Building 43, a new content and social networking website aimed to help grow new startups and promote groundbreaking technology. In 2012, Building 43 was re-branded as Small Teams, Big Impact.[17]

Scoble left Rackspace to join UploadVR in 2016 as an entrepreneur in residence.[18]

Allegations of sexual harassment and assault

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". On October 20, 2017, the news outlet BuzzFeed published a story that alleges that in 2010, Scoble sexually assaulted Michelle Greer, his Rackspace coworker, and Quinn Norton, a technology journalist.[19] Scoble apologized after the BuzzFeed article was published, saying that he has been working towards making amends ever since becoming sober two years ago.[20] However, several women countered this claim, reporting that he made inappropriate advances during the time period he claimed to be sober.[21] Days later, he deleted his apology, and proclaimed his innocence in a blog post that also announced his new company, LightPitch.[22]

One immediate reaction was by the VR/AR Association (VRARA), stating: "In light of recent news and allegations of sexual harassment by Robert Scoble, the VR/AR Association has formally removed Robert from our Board of Advisors. Our organization does not condone harassment of any kind, and feel that this is the best course of action."[23]

Scoble resigned from the Transformation Group, his AR consulting firm, which he co-founded in late 2016.[24]

Appearances

In November, 2013, Scoble was co-keynote speaker with Shel Israel at the 2013 Telstra Australian Digital Summit. Scoble and Israel talked to their book titled "Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy".[25]

On April 1, 2008, The Register ran an April fool's spoof claiming Robert Scoble was actually an IBM bot.[26]

On November 14, 2007, he was a contestant on a game show at NewTeeVee Live[27] featuring other internet celebrities such as Veronica Belmont, Casey McKinnon, Cali Lewis, Kevin Rose, Justin Kan, and others.[28]

On November 6, 2006, Scoble appeared as a panelist on a Chinese Software Professionals Association event called "The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing".[29]

Milliscoble

In September 2008, Follow cost, a website that calculated how annoying it would be to follow anyone on Twitter, invented the milliscoble unit of measurement defined as: "1/1000 of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert Scoble as of 10:09 CST September 25, 2008." At that time, Scoble was averaging 21.21 tweets per day, so a milliscoble is 0.02121 tweets per day. A person with a milliscoble rating of 1000 will be as annoying to follow as Scoble.[30]

Personal life

He is married to Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. Although he considers himself an agnostic, he converted to Islam at the time of the marriage.[31] He has three sons, one with autism.[32]

Bibliography

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robertson, Adi (2017-10-25). "Robert Scoble denies sexual misconduct claims, suggesting accusers motivated by 'peer pressure'". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober". TechCrunch. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carson, Biz. "The guy who ruined Google Glass with a shower selfie is at it again with Snapchat's Spectacles". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rubel, Steve (2004-04-29). "Q&A with Robert Scoble on Blogging, Media and PR". Micro persuasion. Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2006-08-26.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Meet Robert Scoble!". MSDN Academic Alliance Community Center. Microsoft MainFunction. 2005-11-18. Archived from the original on March 29, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scoble, Robert (2006-11-16). "Robert Scoble still need 3 credits to graduate". Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.May 23rd; 2017|Information; Technology; Scoble, Robert; Comments, Tech Leaders|0 (2017-05-23). "Robert Scoble: 'The coming wave of technology will really change human life'". LSE Business Review. Retrieved 2020-07-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chief humanising officer". The Economist. 2005-02-10. Retrieved 2006-08-26. An article that describes Scoble’s role at Microsoft
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."5 lessons Silicon Valley can learn from Robert Scoble". VentureBeat. 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scoble, Robert (2006-06-10). "Correcting the Record about Microsoft". The Scobleizer Weblog. Retrieved 2006-08-28. Robert posting about why he left Microsoft
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Blogger Scoble Quits Microsoft". Australian IT. 2006-06-12.[dead link]
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top Microsoft Blogger to Resign". BBC News. 2006-06-12.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Olson, Parmy (2006-06-12). "Ballmer's Microsoft Loses Admired Tech Evangelist". Forbes.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Traffic report for Scobleizer blog and PodTech.net". Alexa. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2006-09-11.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crampton, Thomas (Dec 12, 2007), Robert Scoble after Podtech & his plans for Fast co.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FastCompany.TV launches", Scobleizer, Mar 3, 2008.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Scalable Living: changes you can make to be more productive", Scobleizer, 2012-07-02, retrieved 2014-05-15.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scoble, Robert (10 March 2016). "Why I Joined the VR Revolution". UploadVR. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shafrir, Doree (October 20, 2017). "Another Woman Has Accused Robert Scoble of Sexual Harassment". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scoble, Robert (October 20, 2017). "I Apologize". Facebook. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Buhr, Sarah (20 October 2017). "Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."No, of that I'm innocent". Archived from the original on 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kolo, Kris (2017-10-20). "VR/AR Association's Statement Regarding Robert Scoble". The VR/AR Association. Archived from the original on 2017-10-22. Retrieved 2017-10-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Robert Scoble departs his augmented reality company following sexual harassment claims". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Australian Digital Summit, Telstra, 2013[dead link].
  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."IBM unveils nano-projector based VirtuaHuman with 1TB of memory". The Register. April 1, 2008..
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Web Video Celebrity Game Show, NewTeeVee Live, archived from the original on 2007-12-30.
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NewTeeVee Live to Feature Online Video Leaders". Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The New Age of Influence: The Impact of Social Computing on Media and Marketing, CPSA, November 6, 2006, archived from the original on May 20, 2008.
  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."What's a milliscoble?". About. Follow cost. 2008-09-25. Archived from the original on 2008-12-07. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  31. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Riley, Duncan (21 October 2008). "What the world's most famous Muslim blogger, Robert Scoble, teaches us". The Inquisitr. Retrieved 13 August 2014. Scoble noted that he's an 'agnostic Muslim' and by no means a faithful follower of the faith he now holds, but none the less, legally he is a Muslim.
  32. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."R Scoble", Author, Rack space, archived from the original on 2014-10-16, retrieved 2014-12-01.

Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.

Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Scoble.Template:Preview warning

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Robert_Scoble&oldid=780616"