Announcement, I’m going to Google
I just got off the phone with Larry Page. He's offered me a job to run Google's PR department and I've decided to take him up on it. Why? Because I finally realized that Steve Gillmor is right. Microsoft Office is dead and I wanted to be at the company that is the future of everything.
Larry and Marissa Mayer, who I met at the Google Zeitgeist conference last year, showed me their top secret plans for the future of the software industry and, WOW, are they unbelieveable.
If you loved Google Earth, you'll go crazy when you see what Larry and Sergey have cooked up! Sorry, I've signed an NDA so you'll just have to wait.
Why else did I decide to leave Microsoft? Well, getting 20% of my time back to do whatever I wanted to certainly played a part. Plus, they increased my salary to more than $100,000 and the free food rocks for a fat guy like me!
Anyway, I wanted you to know the news first before anyone else found out.
My first project will be to convert the Scoble Dashboard over to a Linux box.
Also, as part of the deal, I'll be moving to the new Shanghai Google headquarters since Google is moving to China now. My first job as PR guy for the new Chinese-run Google is to ban all uncredible journalists from writing about Google. This might sound a little evil, but it isn't, the world is better off without them. Sergey will announce on Monday that they are redefining evil to mean "whatever Scoble says is evil."
This also means I will add Google ads to all my Web properties and next week I'll switch my Hotmail email address over to a Gmail one. It's going to be a great move for me and my family.
One of my last duties as a Microsoft employee was to upload some videos of Microsoft pranks throughout the years (cool NERD device!).
Oh, one major factor in my decision was Matt Cutts, Google's top blogger. He got me drunk at Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Strategies conference a few weeks ago and got me to leak all of Microsoft's secrets, not to mention he brainwashed me using Steve Ballmer's new brainwashing device (I don't know how he got one of those, but, heck, I guess billionaires can get anything nowadays). Hey, the brainwashing feels good and my allowance went up a few bucks a week.
Matt's pitch to me? "You can work for Bill Gates anytime, but can you work for a company that's gonna make space elevators along with NASA?" Then he showed me the new Google room search prototype and I forgot about all the lame stuff that Bill Gates showed me at lunch last week.
How could I resist a pitch like that?
As part of the deal I'll have to give up my evil and large software company in Second Life. Google will take that over and will replace the blood fountain with a ping-pong table and heat from my lava field will be mined to provide a new source of energy to run its new datacenters.
I'm off to call Steve Ballmer and give him the bad news. I'll ask him to sit down before telling him.
PS: happy ninth blog birthday to Dave Winer's Scripting News.
Update: did you see the Windows Vista news? Maybe I should have stayed at Microsoft!
Update: Oh, one thing that I learned is Google is going to open up Google Video to let you upload as much porn as you want (or, you can charge per viewings of your own video). Of course this video content will be blocked in China.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:44 am
Meh.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:48 am
The only problem with this is that I clicked on Scobleizer in bloglines, thinking “Ok, so what’s Scoble’s April Fool going to be? Something about Google, probably.”
Must try harder :)
April 1st, 2006 at 8:52 am
Nice try!
Here’s mine:
http://blogs.netindonesia.net/adrian/archive/2006/04/01/9170.aspx
Happy April!
April 1st, 2006 at 8:54 am
Iwas really buying it until you mentioned China. You should have stopped there and not tagged the entry with april fools :) I would have made a fool of myself
April 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am
Christian, yeah, I couldn’t resist dropping in that story from the Register. Ahh, just a little fun on April 1.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:05 am
I was thinking about the “What If”
You might want to milk it for a raise or something, plus you deserve that 20% of your time, and how hard would it be to get you an “eat free” card to the cafateria.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:15 am
Nowhere near subtle enough
April 1st, 2006 at 9:19 am
Hehe that made me lol irl. My wife doesn’t get it though :(
PS its my birthday tomorrow w00t!
April 1st, 2006 at 9:19 am
Subtlety is for Amazon CTOs. :-)
April 1st, 2006 at 9:25 am
[...] Eric Scoble Goes To Google running Google’s Public Relations Department is the breaking news of the moment - Wow! A pay rise, more freedom to do what he wants and hey like he says a fat guy can do with that extra free food. Good luck Scobes. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 9:31 am
[...] Mein Vorgänger Robert Scoble wechselt als PR-Chef zu Google und ich habe mit Bill und Steve lange geskyped bis wir uns einig waren. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 9:33 am
Ha ha ha. Very nice end to an Australian April Fools day lol
April 1st, 2006 at 9:44 am
[...] Note: I just saw that Scoble is coming to Google too. So we may have to work out some sort of round-robin blogging arrangement; maybe I’ll spend 20% of my time up in Seattle with Microsoft. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 10:00 am
You don’t know it yet, but since Matt Cutts is actually moving to Yahoo!, you’ve been duped into thinking you’ll go working at Google, while what will happen is that Yahoo! bought Google *AND* AOL and your next title will be “Chief Blogging Officer” at AOL.
I’m sorry, but someone had to break the news to you, sooner or later.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:03 am
[...] Only the title which now reads Robert Scoble Goes To Google actually read Eric Scoble Goes To Google. I have to say within about 30 seconds of finishing the post Scobes put a comment on there asking who Eric is - go figure. That was funny. So I did a quick search of Pig Pen and be stuffed if I didn’t write Eric Scoble a couple of months ago on another post there. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 10:07 am
Now I would have believed it if you had said APPLE!!!
April 1st, 2006 at 10:09 am
[...] Check this out - incredible news…Scoble is going to Google… let’s not forget the date eh? [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 10:19 am
“Larry and Marissa Mayer, who I met at the Google Zeitgeist conference last year, showed me their top secret plans for the future of the software industry…”
I had Grace read your post and when she read that line about the “top secret plans” she looked back at me and said “Sounds like Rocky and Bullwinkle!” and I almost laughed myself out of my chair. I can hear Boris’s fake accent. Hope your old friends at Whatsamatta U (or was it SJSU?) read of your move.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:22 am
I am trying to get a gig at Google myself.
I met some insiders at the 3rd Annual Nigerian Google Ad Conference and Golf Tournament. I was told that I could make $900,000 more a year than I am now at Uncle Spams in Washington DC, plus free lunch and soda. I visited the Google Washington office and I’ll tell you, it is impressive! Just going to work at such a fine place and making the world a better place with Google ads seems like a dream come true in this crazy and mixed up world. I have applied to be product manager for the new golfball ad network. I believe ads on golfballs are the future of the sport and will improve the game for all my Nigerian associates and the world at large.
Your pal,
Frank
April 1st, 2006 at 10:30 am
Good luck dad. I want a new bike once you get the job at Google.
Your boy,
Frank Jr.
April 1st, 2006 at 10:39 am
[...] Scoble-less Microsoft Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft and he’s joining Google. Be sure to read his post. It’s the best post he’s ever done. Filed Under: Microsoft, Blog [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 10:40 am
Scoble, the news already leaked much before your formal annoucement.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/scoble-quits-microsoft-over-amazon.html
April 1st, 2006 at 10:41 am
I just don’t trust my own judgement without checking Google first. When I’m looking for a little evil, if I find it on Google I know it can’t be evil so I use Google to do no evil and another search engines to take care of all the fun and sinister stuff that makes life worth living here in Dublin.
Thanks,
Frank O
Dublin, Ireland
April 1st, 2006 at 10:54 am
Being dead shouldn’t stop you from reaching your Google AdWords goals. After I died, my income grew by 300% and went right on growing with the new AdWords Afterlife program by Google, you can make money from here to eternity.
Gone but not forgotten,
Vic
P.S. Sign up today, because you could be dead by Sunday! Know what I mean?
April 1st, 2006 at 11:06 am
SWM ISO DSWM
Looking for long-term relationship and cradle 2 grave security.
I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself. . . . It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel.
Must have AdWords account and Afterlife program or drop dead.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:06 am
Get ready to dodge Ballmer’s chair.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:11 am
[...] Hugh points to Scoble’s announcement that he’s off to Google. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 11:14 am
Robert - what you may have missed in the hoopla is that ATT have announced they are to buy Google - something to do with a tiered Internet - more here http://www.tomrafteryit.net/att-purchase-google/
April 1st, 2006 at 11:18 am
I hope everybody enjoyed the short monster movie.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:21 am
[...] Il blogger numero uno di Redmond, Robert Scoble, ha ammesso il suo prossimo passaggio al rivale di Microsoft, Google, in un post del suo blog. Peccato che sia un Pesce d’Aprile :) [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 11:25 am
Post 30 looks like spam.
Webmarketing espan ull.
Looking for Pigeon Rank.
Use English aholes.
This isn’t Mexico here.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:29 am
fuck you and all this fucking april fools bullshit its like the fucking world shuts down for a day
April 1st, 2006 at 11:31 am
What I wonder about is: Is there any such story of one of the a-listers or any other famous web-people that one would instantly realise as an aprils fool joke but then comes out that it is NOT? Wouldn’t that be a great marketing gig for the new product, position, whatever? Is there something like this? Would love to here about it…
April 1st, 2006 at 11:38 am
Jason,
Nobody is forcing you to look at this.
You come here and then bitch about being here.
You are a moron. No fooling.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:45 am
Whassup Gloria. I’ll suck you dry baby.
Do you want go down with the Count? I’m no softie, if you know what it is! You know what to do.
Yours for the sucking,
C.D.
Pennsylvania
April 1st, 2006 at 11:51 am
If there hadn’t been so much hype about April Fools on everyone’s blogs then it could have been more believable, that combined with too much hyperbole made it too big of a pill to swallow.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:54 am
Wasn’t Dave Winer quitting blogging? This farewell tour is going to be longer than the ones by most old rock’n'rollers! ;)
April 1st, 2006 at 11:58 am
Robert,
I am sure you are a nice person, and that I’d value knowing you personally, but you are doing yourself a disservice by blogging the way you do. Let me explain how.
You try and use sarcasm and humor to cover sentiments that are not positive. This post of yours is a perfect example.
You attempt to come off as open and accepting by using humor and (false?) humility, but in your posts you routinely jab at the competition in an extremely transparent way. You use humor to do so, but that just makes it that more repulsive.
Your problem is one of definition. Nobody knows where you stand. You attempt to appear open to other products, but when you post to give them props it looks like a textbook example of making a post precisely for the purpose of having something to show others when you’re challenged for being biased. I’d almost bet you have a list of “pro-apple” and “pro-google” permalink addresses that you use for cut and paste responses.
Again, I don’t think you’re a bad guy. I think you’re smart, have a good sense of humor, and you are loyal to your company.
But just be that. Please. Don’t pretend to be open and non-competitive and then use humor and sarcasm to take swipes at the competition. It not only makes you look bad personally, but it makes Microsoft look bad as well.
Your current style reeks of a rigged Microsoft vs. Linux competition where the entire spin is to have it appear to come from a neutral source. See, it wouldn’t be so bad if you (or the bakeoff) dropped all pretense of neutrality. It’d be genuine at that point and people could decide on their own whether the testing conditions (or your comments) were legitimate or not.
But to pretend one thing while being another is something else altogether. You may not have realized this, but this is the underlying cause of all the recent aggro you’ve been pulling. It’s the deception, not your views.
Anyway, sorry to be negative here. I think you’re a good blogger and would just like to see you “come out” and drop the “I’m neutral” bit. It’d be refreshing, and I think you’d earn a lot of respect as a result.
Kindly,
-Daniel Miessler
April 1st, 2006 at 12:05 pm
ha! gotta love the gapingvoid… :)
Should Amazon Blog?
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/002586.html
Quitting blogging?
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/002575.html
April 1st, 2006 at 12:26 pm
“This farewell tour is going to be longer than the ones by most old rock’n’rollers!” It might be like Ground Hog Day meets April Fools Day.
I keep changing my mind, I’m going to blog, I’m not, I am….I can’t decide. Watch this space for more information as I try to get you to talk me out of blogging. Oops, I mean not blogging.
I’m trying to sell my geek blog tool to Google for millions, so you know who is pinging and what is being pinged. I have all your money and wasted all your time you suckers and I just got a ping pong table so I have less time for blogging. Do you play ping pong? I am launching a new pong service and it should have a blog called Pong Blog News.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Google China could buy Pong Blog News [for flat world] from me for billions of dollars. Then I can have tea with the queen and crackers with important people.
I will set the ping server to pong serve you Scobleizer.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:34 pm
[...] Gotta love the tech industry’s april fools jokes, from Scoble’s announcement that he’s going to Google (after being offered a job than none other than the man himself, Larry Page), The Register reporting that China buys Google, and The Tech Journal has an amusing one about Microsoft deciding to change direction with Windows Vista and release it on a Linux Kernel. I’m sure we’ll be seeing some good ones throughout today. Wonder what Google is gonna scheme up. Cant see anything on there atm… [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Breaking News
PBN–New China
Winer to open diner with Google VC.
Suddenly, life was more than french fries, gravy and girls. Serving billions and billions at McWiners Diners.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Mr Scoble, For about 3 paragraphs, you really had my heart in my mouth.
I was reading this post through NewsGator so I didn’t see the “April Fools” tag. Plus, it is 10:35pm here in Australia and April Fools jokes were over hours ago. Great post. Loved the cool NERD device too.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Pong to Scoblizer, pong to Scoblizer, come in Scobilizer. [Exidor is trying to get Winers memory back] All right, Scoblizer, put your hands in front of your face, and repeat after me. “Oh, no, please don’t.”
April 1st, 2006 at 12:47 pm
What - so I was the ONLY one who was totally fooled?
April 1st, 2006 at 12:50 pm
I see Google are following Yahoo into the dating game:
http://www.google.com/romance/
Regards
John
April 1st, 2006 at 12:51 pm
There is no row at position 0.
Jean DaVinci Code Bitch
April 1st, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Watch out for position 0 friends.
Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
You guys might want to fix that. No joking!
April 1st, 2006 at 12:58 pm
THIS IS WEIRD STUFF. From the people that brought you e-voting Advantage.
[IndexOutOfRangeException: There is no row at position 0.]
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Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBinding.InternalLateIndexGet(Object Instance, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames, Boolean ReportErrors, ResolutionFailure& Failure) +197
Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBinding.LateGet(Object Instance, Type Type, String MemberName, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames, Type[] TypeArguments, Boolean[] CopyBack) +534
ASP.includes_watch_this_ascx.Page_Load() in E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\v2\includes\watch_this.ascx:27
System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.ArglessFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o) +5
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April 1st, 2006 at 1:00 pm
ArglessFunctionCaller
Say what?
CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.
That’s what I always said!
If you need a politician, don’t call a plumber.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:02 pm
[...] 2006/4/1，大胖子說他要換工作去 Google：Announcement, I’m going to Google。 [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Call the freaking FBI, we got us a OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99. I cracked a beer!
April 1st, 2006 at 1:08 pm
NewLateBinding
We can put you in an new early binding and bump you up to first class.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Happy April Fools Robert! And oh yeah… I just received this from an offline message in Yahoo! Messenger…
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-winvista
It’s supposed to be a “review” of Windows Vista… but I think you know what’s written there. Nothing too offensive though, since it wounded up sounding like a cartoon. ^^
April 1st, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Here is why I believe Scoble is leaving Microsoft.
E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\v2\includes\watch_this.ascx:27
The guy must of gotten really pissed. I know I would of.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Windows Hasta La Vista 2.0 for Babies.
Works with Crapster for Windows Media.
Now on sale at G-Mart and Bills Clubs worldwide.
April 1st, 2006 at 1:28 pm
[...] Both Scoble and Jeremy Zawodny have left their tech companies to work for Google [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 1:31 pm
[...] Scoble’s pronouncement, issued in the first ‘graph of his post announcing his defection to Google, is going to rattle a lot of cages: I just got off the phone with Larry Page. He’s offered me a job to run Google’s PR department and I’ve decided to take him up on it. Why? Because I finally realized that Steve Gillmor is right. Microsoft Office is dead and I wanted to be at the company that is the future of everything. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Great stuff Robert, I knew they were smart people over there. Plus with Google buying OpenOffice you’ll have that office suite you always wanted. Not only that I saw a press release about Windows SharePoint Services going open source with the release of Office 2007 so porting your dashboard will be no problem:
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2006/04/01/441626.aspx
April 1st, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Finally
April 1st, 2006 at 1:58 pm
[...] Scoble is Going to Google [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Damn! The market’s closed. Google will probably drop 5% on this rumor, even though it is an april fool’s gag.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:15 pm
You’re not smart enough to work at Google.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:27 pm
[...] Scoble leaves Microsoft for Google - Scobelizer [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 2:30 pm
HA
April 1st, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Perhaps this ties in with White House plans to simultaneously win the war and solve the immigration problem.
http://polizeros.com/2006/04/01/operation-two-birds/
Hey, here’s an idea you cam implement now Scoble. Implant RFIDs chips in everyone, then track them using Google Maps.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:44 pm
DUH!! Happy Googling then..
Btw, it’s too obvious.
April 1st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Music (iTunes-Like)
iTunes is not the only music downloading service in town as Microsoft has gotten ready to sideline Apple with the launch of their latest online innovative Windows Live Music (WLM). This announcement has taken the whole of the web by surprise and I don&…
April 1st, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Wow! Congratulations.
Hey, I’ve been having trouble getting this vital news out. I think that my tinfoil hat is blocking the Google spider, but I can’t take it off for obvious reasons. Anyway, could you check on that for me?
April 1st, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Why?
April 1st, 2006 at 3:32 pm
[...] Given the day that’s in it - some GOOG-related funny tales I fell across today: Scoble’s decided to Play Evil with the GOOG monster and GOOG to go into match-making [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Obviously you have no limits left in your life for boosting up your site hit counts.
In other April Fools Day news, I found my PC mouse no longer worked this morning. I rebooted the PC. Nope. Still not working. Dusted off and reset all the USB cables. Nope. Still not working.
Turned the mouse over to look at the bottom. Covering the LED was a small bit of Post-It note with the words “April Fool!” written on it in what appeared to be my wife’s handwriting.
Then again it might have been Scoble’s handwriting.
Hmm…
April 1st, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Strumpette’s Death Pool Ends
You know, Smurfette is so right. I just can’t hack it at Edelman. It’s time to throw in the towel. So, I have decided to turn a new page and join forces with Jeremy Pepper. It’s the only way I
April 1st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
:-) April 1 is always fun…
April 1st, 2006 at 4:12 pm
[...] Maybe I am feeling a little too cynical, but I think this April Fool thing has run its’ course. I had started to put together a list of all the blogs that were making the half hearted attempt and then just lost interest. It was cool for a year, now it just looks tacky. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 4:17 pm
[...] Jeremy Pepper have joined forces and started PepperRubel. By: Paul Chaney @ 11:33 am | | Permlink Filed in: Weblogs, Blogging News Posted on: No Comments» [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 4:29 pm
[...] Like Scoble, Steve Rubel has wilted under withering pressure from well-respected industry pundits, and is off to work with Jeremy Pepper and form the next PR industry behemoth…(nice work Josh). [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Robert,
Congratualations on your Move. I have been named your replacement.
http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2006/04/the_head_lemur_.html
Please leave the phone on the desk when you leave.
thank you,
the head lemur
xoxoxoxoxo
April 1st, 2006 at 4:39 pm
happy April 1…. Nice try… Did you try Google Romance..:-) Just kidding..
April 1st, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Robert,
Please don’t forget the non-disclosure agreement you signed when you joined Microsoft. Our corporate legal department will be performing your exit interview so don’t forget to stop by Building 14 before you leave. Please remember to turn in your employee badge and parking pass. We have already canceled your Hotmail account, XBox Live account and your unlimited spending privileges at the Microsoft Store. One more thing before you go. Steve has a chair with your name on it he would like to “present” to you. Oh yeah, please leave the Channel 9 guy on in your cubicle as he will be replacing you on the team.
Best regards,
Bill
April 1st, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Good one! Maybe you should run Google’s new romance product.
April 1st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
You bad little insignificant turd of a geek.
As someone already said, the move to Google was the most obvious April Fool’s drivel you could have come up with. You could have been more imaginative, but why bother I guess, its April Fool’s, its happy time, everyone will get up at 5:00 AM to see what new fun-fun thing “The scobelizer” has in store for them. Everyday, I feel you are getting close to being the Bill O’ Reilly of technology.
And please stop calling yourself “Scobeilizer” or did you just want to reinforce your image as “Microsoft’s geek blogger”. Aw come on, you call yourself a geek when you sit on your ass all day drumming up the FOX news of tech while real geeks up in Redmond are writing sw. Come on man, the whole look at me, I’m a geek thing is old now.
April 1st, 2006 at 4:51 pm
针对中国的那几段话一点都不好笑。
April 1st, 2006 at 4:51 pm
[...] We’ll start with the Jeremy Zawodny - Matt Cutts blockbuster trade between Google and Yahoo. Apparently, Google is getting JZ and Yahoo is getting Matt Cutts and 2000 + computers. It’s part of Yahoo’s acquisition of all Web 2.0 companies. And Scoble is going to Google because he got drunk. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Tranquility Base to Scoble.
We have a little problem here Scoble.
The NewLateBinding.net probe reports a failure to communicate. You’re on your own for now. Good luck Scoble. You keep rockin there baby and we’ll keep rolling at TB. It will all work out because it has to.
We need to cancel your passport. Use System 14 for navigational purposes and avoid the rocks.
Tranquility Base out Scoble.
April 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
[...] I’m down for a good April Fool’s joke but so far what I’ve seen has been unconvincing. Scoble and Zawodny moving to Google? Please. Matt Cutts from Google moving to Yahoo? Yawn. The Register reporting China buys Google? I’m glad I unsubbed them last week, they suck even when they are serious. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
The only problem you may face is they just hired Wermer to be your boss. Please bring a spreadsheet with your projected returns on Google’s investment on you to the office on Monday morning.
April 1st, 2006 at 5:11 pm
[...] Then I learn that Big in Japan was bought by China and will now be known as Medium in China. Finally, Robert Scoble left Microsoft and is now running the PR department at Google. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Hey, good one!! Looks like you fooled a lot of folks! Robert, you’re too clever.
:)
April 1st, 2006 at 5:34 pm
I immediately realized your post was bogus the minute I got there. But I have to confess that seeing Google Geek Blogger in my newsreader totally got me. In fact, I’d just responded to a post about one of your Naked Conversations presentations at another blog, saw the subtitle and thought I’d really gotten confused about who you worked for.
I should have had some coffee since I’m obviously not accessing detailed mental information properly at the moment.
April 1st, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Darn, too bad you’re not staying with Microsoft. Bill Gates just called to hire me as his CEO blogging coach! He insisted I fly out to Seattle first thing Monday… cool, huh?!
April 1st, 2006 at 6:03 pm
[...] If it is true, then excuse my “But wait!” question. There are quite a few plausible-sounding announcements being made today… [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Nice try. You had me for about 2 seconds.
April 1st, 2006 at 6:15 pm
well, looks like you’ll be learning open office then…
http://www.openoffice.org
April 1st, 2006 at 6:18 pm
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April 1st, 2006 at 6:18 pm
[...] Scoble is leaving Microsoft for Google. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Haha great one! ;)
April 1st, 2006 at 6:23 pm
[...] Il commençait bien, puis il a tout gâché ! [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 6:40 pm
First the Best Actor Oscar for “Capote,” now a primo job at Google. You’re having a very good year, indeed. If you can manage to kick Brad to the curb and get Angelina, I will worship you as a god.
April 1st, 2006 at 6:42 pm
[...] Scoble joins Google [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 6:51 pm
[...] Robert Scoble también se va a trabajar a Google [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 7:11 pm
[...] Full story at http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/01/announcement-im-going-to-google/ Published Saturday, April 01, 2006 1:11 PM by Keith Combs [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 7:13 pm
When you do call Steve… make sure all the chairs are bolted to the floor!
April 1st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
The free porn sealed the deal, eh?
Great post!
April 1st, 2006 at 7:34 pm
This is very funny Robert. Congrats on fooling a bunch of people!
I’m collecting as many April Fools 2.0’s as I can. Let me know if you see any others.
My post is here:
http://start-up20.blogspot.com/2006/04/april-fools-20.html
April 1st, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Nothing new in this April Fools joke: you just expressed your biggest dream: to get hired by Google. I think many people guessed it before.
April 1st, 2006 at 7:56 pm
sadly enough, I didn’t get a laugh out of this, not believable for one word!! you overdid it this time Robert!! ;)
April 1st, 2006 at 8:25 pm
well done!
April 1st, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Hey, now you can fix their corporate blog which you trashed in Naked C’s! Say hi to Jeremy Z who is now blogging over there at the plex … http://mattcutts.com/blog/
April 1st, 2006 at 8:50 pm
how come china buy google ? not fair
April 1st, 2006 at 9:12 pm
I’d call you a few names but that would be redundant,
The one sad aspect is that I wasn’t for a nanosecond.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Now if you were to say that Microsoft was supporting ebooks on multiple platforms, that would be a great April Fool’s joke, i mean, come on, MICROSOFT, supporting READING outside of WINDOWS?
BWAAHAHAHAAHAHAH
April 1st, 2006 at 9:45 pm
[...] Robert Scoble moving to Google [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 9:49 pm
We will match Google’s offer, we have better pay and more benifits.
http://www.webringr.com
April 1st, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Does posting that your biggest dream has actually come true really count as a April fools joke?
April 1st, 2006 at 10:54 pm
[...] Nota: Aunque parezca verdad, esto es una broma publicada por Scoble en su blog en el April Fool o día de los Inocentes… [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 11:14 pm
[...] One of the interesting by-products of using an RSS reader is the effect it has on the time-honored tradition of April Fools Day. When you stack up hundreds of tongue in cheek spoofs next to each other in a newsreader it’s hard to be fooled, despite many valiant efforts. [...]
April 1st, 2006 at 11:16 pm
windows vista is delayed til 2050…
April 1st, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Oh wow….you had me going big time. And to China no less? A classic Mr. Scoble, not soon to be outdone.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Luke, yes, this is my biggest dream come true! Free food AND drinks! :-)
April 1st, 2006 at 11:43 pm
for a year you knew April 1st was coming and this predictable fools joke is the best you could come up with? I don’t see how anyone of your readers could not have predicted such a lame “joke”. You need new writers. Again, geeks should not attempt humor.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Dmad: next year I’m gonna play you!
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:14 am
I’d be honored.
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:36 am
woah i thought that was for real!!!!
:)
-mano
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:39 am
[...] Nice April fools from Scobble. I’ll admit he had me for about 2 paragraphs. It made the top of memeorandum. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:56 am
[...] AMD finalizes it’s own Itanium implementation Folks, I am just back from a meeting with a top AMD manager. Unfortunately I was not as lucky as Scoble, they did not offer me a job. But she shared an important secret with me. And what the heck, it will leak anyway so why should it not be me becoming famous for blogging it first. Fact: AMD is working on their own Itanium implementation for 4 yearsFact: AMD recently hired top Itanium architects and developers for final tuning of the architecture.Fact: AMD will provide the first Itanium based test systems to close partners later this spring.Fact: The processor will be called Titanion 6. Who’s now a fool, eh? Filed Under: 64-bit, Random, 64-bit for Users [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:58 am
I thought you were for real. Darnit. Your not. It’s april fools. Of course.
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:07 am
ha ha ha great joke…unfourtanely you have been on the top of memeorandum all day which has been kinda boring….i wish something more exciting happened today… and di everybody forget apple today. Happy BIrthday Apple. Good joke scoble
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:13 am
Bob: it’s good that the blogosphere takes a day off once in a while. It gets tiring trying to keep up with it all.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:06 am
I agree that a day off for the news is a good thing, Robert. It’d be great if someday we could get to a world where such a thing was possible for everyone.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:34 am
[...] However, the real shocker came when Eric Schmidt made Robert Scoble an offer he couldn’t refuse, and Scoble became the new head of Google’s PR department. Of course, the real big deal was China buying Google, so Scoble and Jeremy had to pack their bags and start working in Beijing. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 am
Microsoft spends company money to pay you to write this stuff?
No wonder Vista is shipping late.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 am
[...] Le blogueur évangéliste de Microsoft, Robert Scoble, annonce aujourd’hui sur son blog Scobleizer qu’il rejoint Google, suite à un coup de téléphone d’un des deux fondateurs : “Larry Page vient de m’appeler. Il m’a proposé le poste de patron des relations publiques de Google, et j’ai accepté. Pourquoi ? Parce que je viens de comprendre que Steve Gillmor a raison. Microsoft Office est mort, et je veux rejoindre la société qui est notre futur.” [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:01 am
[...] Also, what major thing did Google do today that I seemingly missed (no, I didn’t miss Scoble’s “announcement” - which is a hoax - http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/01/announcement-im-going-to-google/). Google always seems to do something legitimate on this date (GMail, the upgrade, etc). [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:34 am
Larry Page just called to inform that he is joining Microsoft.
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:36 am
a slave
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:47 am
Hi Robert,
It apparently doesn’t help Vista ship any sooner.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:17 am
really, what a poor attempt to fool people.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:18 am
Russell: I wrote this on Saturday. It’s my own time, thank you very much!
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:42 am
Had me worried there for a sec…
Luckily though, when I didn’t see any mention of Chuck Norris, I knew it couldn’t be real.
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:35 am
[...] Scoble moves to Google. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:59 am
Hi Robert,
You write stuff here during the week for Microsoft so a Saturday post is different how?
Is there some disclaimer I’m missing?
Let me know, thanks.
And it still sucks that Vista is shipping late.
Are you a coder?
You should spend more time coding.
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:18 am
Um…Russell…Robert doesn’t even work directly for the Vista team. He’s an evangelist. Short of being a gopher for the programmers, exactly WHAT is he going to do?
As well, even if he was…I don’t want code written by people pushing 100 hour weeks. All that does is guarantee buggy, craptacular code. There’s a reason why Unions pushed for a weekend. You need some “away” time from work. Otherwise, your brain turns to mush.
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:53 am
Russell: I am not a coder and never said I was.
The job I get paid for is over on Channel 9. http://channel9.msdn.com — hope that helps.
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:22 am
[...] For the first time in my life, I successfully pulled off an April Fool’s prank. I’ve never done that before. NEVER. And honestly, I figured the web would be awash in April Fool’s Awareness. How was I to know you’d all take me so seriously? [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:23 am
If Google really did offer you a job,
would you go?
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:32 pm
[...] Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Announcement, I’m going to Google Announcement, I’m going to Google I just got off the phone with Larry Page. He’s offered me a job to run Google’s PR department and I’ve decided to take him up on it. Why? Because I finally realized that Steve Gillmor is right. Microsoft Office is dead and I wanted to be at the company that is the future of everything. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
[...] So it is pretty obvious that the post about Google hiring me was a joke. Whether it was funny or not is not the matter. What I am annoyed about it Scobleizer, I will check his blog every so often, simply for sheer displeasure. I go on today, and lo and behold is he, doing the exact same joke I pulled!!! I am quite sure mine came first, as I factored in time differences. Therefore, I make this initial request. I wish everyone to remember that the first person to fool you concerning a Google hiring was I, and not ‘Scobleizer’. I am not concerned over whether someone did it before me, as long as it is well known that I did not rip off the scobleizer (is it just me or does anyone else think of the shermenator from American Pie when you hear scobleizer, and it just makes scoble that much more of a looser). [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Hi John C. Welsh,
Microsoft would make better use of their funds paying money to ship a Vista that doesn’t suck, and on time, rather than paying Scoble to write something that occupies space, and does nothing more.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Hi Russell, you know, when you have my name *right there*, spelling it wrong is kind of silly.
As well, what part of “Scoble has nothing to do with Vista” aren’t you getting? You appear to speak and read English fairly well, yet insist on acting as though every person at Microsoft works on Vista.
Now, you can believe anything you like, however, your belief does not in fact, change reality. Scoble in a tutu, spit-roasting cheerleaders and eating a baby for breakfast wouldn’t affect Vista, so how is his blog going to do so?
It won’t.
Let’s recap…Scoble doesn’t work on Vista, and your belief otherwise doesn’t change that. You do not in fact, shape reality, and some time spent on that could help you with much in life.
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:22 pm
[...] MS blogger Robert Scoble would be going to Google. [...]
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:05 pm
[...] Robert Scoble deja Microsoft y ficha por Google porque I wanted to be at the company that is the future of everything y Steve Outing deja el Poynter Institute para poner en marcha Enthusiastic Group que define como a network of citizen-media-driven websites about adventure and participatory sports and activities y lanza nuevo blog: steveouting.com. [...]
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:49 am
Well. That was so obvious. You really better not try for a career as comedian. That’d end in utter failure.
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:47 am
April Fools Round-up
In case you missed it… » Ask.com released a ground breaking search algorithm called RhymeRank “based upon the educational theory that people commit information to memory more effectively when it is phonetically consistent.” » Scoble joi…
April 3rd, 2006 at 5:15 am
nice one :D
April 3rd, 2006 at 5:32 am
Well, I may not agree with you all the time, but this is a fantastic April Fools joke. You actually had about a dozen people at my company talking about what legal actions Microsoft might take.
April 3rd, 2006 at 1:02 pm
[...] Anche quest’anno, come ogni 1° d’aprile, la fantasia delle persone si è sbizzarrita attraverso le notizie più assurde. Leggendo qua e la attraverso la blogosfera, ho cercato di raccogliere alcune delle bufale più interessanti: - Ask.com introduce il Rhyme Ranking (fonte Mauro Lupi) - Google Romance - Google Rooms (fonte Google Blogoscoped) - MSN Search (fonte Mauro Lupi) - Yahoo: All Your Web 2.0 Are Belong To Us - Jeremy Zawodny passa a Google - Matt Cutts passa a Yahoo - Scoble passa a Google (fonte Mauro Lupi) [...]
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Nice one. I was about to say congrats but then I was like wait a minute. Scrolled back to the top to look at the date…
April 3rd, 2006 at 5:03 pm
You talk too much.
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:05 pm
[...] The anticipation for this year’s April Fool’s jokes ended in dissappointment. The insipid spoofs included Scoble and Zawodny moving to Google? Please, guys get a life. Matt Cutts from Google moving to Yahoo? Borrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnngggg. The Register reporting China buys Google? Now, I can officially unsubscribe. More excitement or creativity? How about some useful applications or hacks that users requested? The pink Slashdot motiff and Blogoscope’s Google Room thing complete with Playboy at least drew a grin. [...]
April 6th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Pretty funny, I found this via this link on a Spanish-language site: http://edans.blogspot.com/2006/04/scoble-deja-microsoft-y-ficha-por.html
… and almost believed his entry linking to yours, until I read the date.
Also a funny double entendre you’ve included: “…redefining evil to mean ‘evil is ‘whatever Scoble says is evil.’”
So now you’re evil? ;)
April 17th, 2006 at 11:37 am
[...] As a spin-off of some April Fool’s blog posts (Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel, and Debbie Weil to name a few), Debbie made a prediction for 2006 (My prediction). Although I can’t totally discredit what she’s saying, that given the “power” of the blogosphere, posters and readers will have to be careful about the validity of information in blogs, I also can’t completely agree with it. The example she gives is obviously a good one, regarding Kryptonite bike locks and the blog post on Endgadget. But I have a couple different points to make about the post. [...]
June 12th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
[...] Announcement, I m going to GoogleHe’s offered me a job to run Google’s PR department and I’ve decided to take him up on it. Why? … Also, as part of the deal, I’ll be moving to the new Shanghai Google headquarters since Google is moving to China now. … [...]
July 29th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Could be fun
July 27th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
There are no cute women that work at Google, they come in cute and within 3 weeks they are fat, ugly, messy gnomes. Google does not allow any reflective surfaces inside so that they can see how messy their hair is. They never see the sun so they get all pale. Google puts food everywhere so you are forced to come there for breakfast until dinner so all you do is eat and eat to mask the stress until you turn into a blubber butt. Your eyes sink in from staring at LCD screens and you get dark circles under your eyes from looking at a single plane all day. You chew your hair and you get pimples… The women at Google are Gnomes…