Scoble’s looking ahead to contextual computing, and the idea that putting all this data into Facebook will eventually make his life easier because other services will be able to extrapolate it into daily-life informational aid. Because, of course, Facebook is all about you being able to take your data out of it.
Oh, hey, here’s Scoble in 2008, being kicked off Facebook for scraping his contacts data out of his account.
"- Warren Ellis, The Facebook Cortex
(I’ve always thought of Scoble as being an annoying twat obsessed with being the most popular kid on the internet, myself.)
(Scoble in 2008, being kicked off Facebook for scraping his contacts data out of his account)