Twitter follow-up: Don’t blame Ruby, don’t blame Scoble — though he is kind of a problem
Anyone who read the comment’s on yesterday’s post, Twitter: Don’t blame Ruby, blame Scoble, will know that blogger Robert Scoble was not too happy that Twitter seemed to be placing some of the blame for its woes on the “popular” users such as himself. (For the record, Twitter never explicitly mentioned Scoble’s name, but it is fairly obvious that Scoble is perhaps the most server-straining of the popular users, see Dave Winer’s Twitter Spewage list… Continue Reading
Sullivan responds to Scoble’s attack: Google’s just fine
On Monday, we covered a talk by Robert Scoble (pictured bottom) about how Google will get “its butt kicked” by companies like Facebook, Mahalo and Techmeme. We were charitable in our coverage, saying his point about using personal filters (via the “social graph) to remove spam was a solid one, though we mentioned a few big caveats.
Search expert Danny Sullivan (pictured top left) has responded to Scoble’s argument, however, and tears it to shreds. Sullivan… Continue Reading
Will Google get trounced by upstarts TechMeme, Facebook?
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Robert Scoble, the tech blogger, has drawn a lot of attention with a talk about why Google is beginning to fail as a search engine, and how upstarts may eat its lunch within a few years.
It is provocatively titled Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years, and here’s first video of a series (we’ve embedded it below, after the jump).
His argument is solid for the most part. Google’s… Continue Reading