<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Anina told to stop blogging (I&#8217;m not using&nbsp;wifi)]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m writing to you from Southwest Terminal 10 at Oakland Airport. But I am not using wifi. I got a Cingular wireless 3G card. Works great. Costs $80 a month. But I just paid $30 of hotel wifi fees. Got so fed up we all went to the Cingular store today to get this.</p>
<p>Anyway, I just saw that Anina, the geek model, <a href="http://anina.typepad.com/anina/2006/01/slides_gave_me_.html">has been told to stop blogging</a>. That sucks. But leaves a bunch of future opportunities. She&#8217;s smart and that&#8217;ll take her a lot further than her looks.</p>
<p>I keep coming back to the iPod. Why is it such a cultural phenomenon? Hint: it isn&#8217;t the features. At least not alone. It&#8217;s the combination of the technology with fashion and culture.</p>
<p>Match Anina up with an inventor and you&#8217;ll have an interesting marketing combo. Her work with Nokia was an interesting example of this.</p>
<p>This week I am going to Switzerland for the LIFT conference. I hear Anina will be there. Hope to talk with her more about this then.</p>
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