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Scoble’s New Thing: Building 43
- tptacek 18y agoI have a question maybe someone here can answer for me. It's going to sound snarky but I don't mean it to be. What is Scoble's biggest industry success so far? Not career success; I mean, what's the thing he's best known for accomplishing?
- ojbyrne 18y agoHe had something to do with Dave Winer's Userland Software - that developed early blogging software (Radio). Probably his biggest success, though, is his blog.
- blasdel 18y agoHe fits into a similar niche of inane punditry as Winer, except s/software/marketing/g and s/entrepreneur/leech/g. People seem to find his enthusiasm endearing, unlike Winer (who has profound mental health problems).
- TomOfTTB 18y agoBecause we don't know the traffic levels I can't say it is, for a fact, a success but Channel9 would probably be your answer. It was originally started by several 'softies but Scoble became the whole show and it stayed that way until he left. Again, I don't have any traffic numbers but Microsoft still has Channel9 up and they still spends all that money on bandwidth so I have to assume it's considered a success to them.
- swombat 18y agoSo basically, he's an entertainer? (not a negative question... just asking. I don't follow Scoble, Winer, or most of that crowd)
- unalone 18y agoI know him from his days with the Microsoft team. He brought a real enthusiasm that I didn't notice from many other people in the industry back then. Does that count as a success? That's why people still read him, anyway.
- jwb119 18y agoI'm just as curious about Scoble's new relationship with Rackspace as I am about his new project.
- swombat 18y agoYou forgot something. Here, let me lend you mine: <heavy_sarcasm_dripping_with_cynicism> </heavy_sarcasm_dripping_with_cynicism>
- joshu 18y agoThis is bizarre. He's naming it after... another company's building? I didn't understand it until the article explained it. And I really ought to have gotten it. Definitely trying to hard.