<?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[Amazon, the new&nbsp;Google?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Back when I worked at Microsoft I was always looking at Google and asking myself &#8220;what if they shipped this&#8221; or &#8220;what if they shipped that?&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, I should have been worrying about Amazon instead. They&#8217;ve shipped a bunch of stuff that I expected Google to do first (like S3, and now Unbox).</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the Unbox video store? <a href="http://www.askdavetaylor.com/what_is_amazon_unbox_video_store.html">Dave Taylor answers the question</a>. Oh, and <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/060907/p79#a060907p79">a few other people on TechMeme too</a>.</p>
<p>If I didn&#8217;t have such a busy day today, I&#8217;d go play too. Here&#8217;s a recap:</p>
<p>8 a.m., breakfast with <a href="http://blog.stealthmode.com/">Francine Hardaway</a> and <a href="http://buzzmodo.typepad.com/">Buzz Bruggeman</a>.<br />
10 a.m. interview with Mike Cannon-Brookes, founder and CEO of Atlassian (cool software company in Australia) along with Jon Silvers. You can <a href="http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2006/07/founders_share.html">see Mike on this video</a> (not mine).<br />
1:30 p.m. interviewed <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/">Jonathan Schwartz</a>. That went very well, can&#8217;t wait to show you the video (my show probably will start the week of the 18th).<br />
3 p.m. meeting with <a href="http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/">Ryanne</a> and Jay, who are editing and encoding my show. They just got engaged, by the way, congrats!<br />
5 p.m. Buzz and I head to <a href="http://www.ventureblog.com/">David Hornick&#8217;s</a> VC firm for <a href="http://davidhornik.vox.com/library/post/august-annual.html">a little shindig</a> (nice <a href="http://www.vox.com/">Vox blog</a>, are all the cool kids going to get those now? <a href="http://scobleizer.vox.com/">I have one</a> too, but it&#8217;s lame so far. I am trying to get Maryam to switch to Vox, though). Met lots of famous geeks and entrepreneurs including <a href="http://www.againstallodds.com/">Rick Smolan</a>, the guy who did the &#8220;Day in the Life&#8221; series of photo books and <a href="http://www.roizen.com/heidi/">Heidi Roizen</a> (former executive at Apple, among other places). She told me she updated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Roizen">her own Wikipedia entry</a> to correct some factual errors. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if that&#8217;ll get her in trouble. Oh, I also met <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/">Ross Mayfield</a>, founder of Social Text, who, in jest, told me a good business tip: &#8220;Pornotube is the future.&#8221;<br />
8 p.m. Interview Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail. He&#8217;s in India and is planning out a new city. Now THAT isn&#8217;t something you hear every day.<br />
9:30 p.m. Buzz picks me up and we head to Valerie Cunningham&#8217;s birthday party where I meet up with a bunch of PodTech&#8217;ers, including my boss, John Furrier, who tells me about working at Hewlett Packard and how much he loved that company. Said &#8220;it was the best company in the world.&#8221;<br />
11 p.m. head home.<br />
Midnight. Read blogs, email (72 still to be answered just from yesterday) and write this blog post.</p>
<p>Well, hope you all get some sleep. But it looks like half the Internet is playing with Amazon stuff right now.</p>
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