Scoble built his career around having an audience. Scoble is probably aware that preferential attachment plays a role in building an audience. Given this, Scobl

Scoble built his career around having an audience. Scoble is probably aware that preferential attachment plays a role in building an audience. Given this, Scoble had his own reasons for building an early audience on Google+. I don't know if Google compensated Scoble or others, but they probably didn't need to in Scoble's case. Scoble was very active on FriendFeed. I am pretty sure that FriendFeed did not compensate him.