Robert Scoble Bio | Wiki
Robert Scoble is an American technical evangelist, blogger, and author. He is best known for his blog called Scobleizer. Robert’s blog came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. Later, he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger prior to joining Rackspace. He worked for a Rackspace-sponsored community site called Building 43 that promotes breakthrough technology and startups.
Robert Scoble Age
He was born on January 18, 1965, in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America. Robert is 57 years old.
Robert Scoble Height
He is a man of average stature. Robert stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m).
Robert Scoble Family
He was born to his parents in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America. Robert grew up about a kilometer from Apple Computer’s head office in Silicon Valley. He dropped out of San Jose State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 1993 and failed to finish his degree in journalism.
Robert Scoble Wife
He is happily married to his wife called Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. He converted to Islam at the time of the marriage. However, Robert considers himself an agnostic. The couple shares three sons. One of the sons has autism.
Robert Scoble Microsoft
He secured a position at Microsoft in June 2003. The Economist described his influence in its February 15, 2005 edition “He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide..” Robert announced on June 10, 2006, that he was leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as vice president of media development. His new position attracted a higher salary accompanied by “a quite aggressive stock option.” This offer would have made him wealthy if his new company had succeeded. According to Alexa Internet, that day ad the biggest traffic to Robert’s blog and PodTech over their lifetime. His last day to work at Microsoft was on June 28, 2006.
Robert Scoble Milliscoble
A website called Follow cost calculated how annoying it would be to follow anyone on Twitter. In September 2008, The wedsite invented the milliscoble unit of measurement defined as: “1/1000 of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert as of 10:09 CST September 25, 2008.”A milliscoble is 0.02121 tweets per day, at that time, Robert was averaging 21.21 tweets per day. Any person with a milliscoble rating of 1000 will be as annoying to follow as Robert.
Robert Scoble Blog | Building 43
He is best known for his blog called Scobleizer. Robert announced via his blog and on the Gillmor Gang on March 14, 2009, that he was joining Rackspace. Robert teamed up with the company to develop Building 43 as part of his work there. Building 43 is a content and social networking website whose goal is to help grow new startups as well as promote groundbreaking technology.
Building 43 was re-branded as Small Teams, Big Impact in 2012. Robert’s mission remains to find and also report bleeding edge technology. In 2016, he left Rackspace to join UploadVR as an entrepreneur in residence.
Robert Scoble Fast Company
He inadvertently leaked news on December 11, 2007, that he would be leaving PodTech on January 14, 2008. Robert leaked the news by loading up a post on TechCrunch while taking part in a panel discussion at the LeWeb3 Conference. It was revealed that he was likely to join Fast Company. On December 12, Robert acknowledged the news on his blog but stated that he had not yet signed on with Fast Company.
He later did a video interview about his plans where hr leased studio space from Revision3. Robert launched FastCompany.tv on March 3, 2008, with two shows: FastCompany Live and ScobleizerTV. The first show was characterized as “a show done totally on cell phones.” The second show is similar to Robert’s previous show on PodTech. The only difference is that it has better equipment and a camera operator ( recorded with two cameras in 720p HD).
Robert Scoble Books
– The Infinite Retina: Spatial Computing, Augmented Reality, and how a collision of new technologies are bringing about the next tech revolution
– The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything
– Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
– Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
– Age of Context (Korean Edition)
– The Fourth Reform (Korean Edition)
Robert Scoble Quotes
-“History shows that where gamers take people, everything else follows. There”
– “Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.”
– “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. Scott McNealy, co-founder, Sun Microsystems”
– “Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of MIT Media Labs”
– “Many people do not yet realize it, but the modern car is as much a contextual tool as a smartphone is—only a lot bigger.”
– “IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years.”
– “Without location, there is no context.” And for Apple, without context, there will be no leadership.”
– “but 20 years from now it will be bizarre if you walk into a store and the store doesn’t know who you are.”
Robert Scoble Net Worth
He is an American technical evangelist, blogger, and author. Robert has accumulated an estimated net worth of $2,693,835.
How Old Is Robert Scoble
Robert is 57 years old. He was born on January 18, 1965, in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America.
Is Robert Scoble Married
Yes. He is happily married to his wife called Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble. The couple shares three sons. One of the sons has autism.
Who Is Robert Scoble
Robert is an American technical evangelist, blogger, and author. Robert’s blog came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft.