Twitter follow-up: Don’t blame Ruby, don’t blame Scoble — though he is kind of a problem

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… Continue Reading

Sullivan responds to Scoble’s attack: Google’s just fine

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… Continue Reading

Will Google get trounced by upstarts TechMeme, Facebook?

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… Continue Reading