robert scoble: leaving microsoft for podtech.net
a-list blogger (currently rank 26 at technorati) and evangelist robert scoble earlier today confirmed that he is leaving microsoft. scoble is joining podtech.net, a silicon valley-based podcasting- & videoblogging start-up. amazing how this spawned a gazillion blog-posts today! here are scobles thoughts on the issue, interesting read:
post #1 Correcting the record about microsoft
post #2 The joy on her face
update - netcraft reports:
It’s not often that a hiring announcement knocks a web site offline. But the blogosphere is abuzz with the news that Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble is leaving to take a position at a video blogging start-up. The news has triggered a burst of traffic to Scoble’s new employer, PodTech, whose web site is struggling to handle all that link love. The Podtech.net web site was unavailable for several for part of Sunday and offline again this morning.
[...] if you want to stay up-2-date with Photosynth, the development-team has setup a blog - good to see that Robert Scoble definitely left his mark on Microsoft! [...]