Difference between revisions of "Robert Scoble"
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Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble first came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft, due to his blog "Scobleizer." | Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble first came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft, due to his blog "Scobleizer." | ||
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Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley. His father was an engineer at Ampex and Lockheed Martin. His mother worked for Apple Computer as a member of a group of women who built Apple IIs at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11 and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. | Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley. His father was an engineer at Ampex and Lockheed Martin. His mother worked for Apple Computer as a member of a group of women who built Apple IIs at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11 and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. | ||
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| + | He studied journalism at West Valley Community College and San Jose State. In 1989 he persuaded Steve Wozniak to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the WVCC journalism department, and then took responsibility for setting them all up. At that time he was a Mac Evangelist, fond of installing beta software and performing weird hacks on other people's old Apple computers to improve their performance. | ||
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After leaving Microsoft he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. | After leaving Microsoft he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. | ||
