stroboskop

You may or may not like him, but Jaron Lanier is right in that interview: It is dangerous that corporations control the data of devices you are supposed to wear.

Scoble doesn't seem to care about that.

> If you’re a European and work in tech in San Francisco, every summer you’ll be inundated with dozens of emails from friends, contacts and unknown European entrepreneurs who will ask you for advice and introductions to US investors for their classic VC fundraising trip.

Possibly due to a biased sample, the post exaggerates the attractiveness of the US for skilled Europeans founders.

'Self-defense'? The post's key quote sums up Google's relation to RSS:

lead with a compelling user experience first and then build an API from there, an API which may be based on open standards, but only if it’s a means to an end.

Although an open standard, RSS is a special case: The DNA of RSS is incompatible with the data-greedy centralization enforced by the Google, Facebook, Twitter and their likes.