Among the points raised:
- French have better wine than Californians (Scoble).
- European startup pitches are just as boring as pitches in the US.
- Scoble praised a video face recognition startup.
- Silicon Valley is a state of mind and the entire world has turned into Silicon Valley. Proof: Everyone is on Twitter. Clarification by Ouriel: Not EVERYONE is on Twitter.
- Dopplr is the best web service because it only has A-listers.
- Twitter is not blocked by China’s firewall because the firewall has no friends.
- Ouriel gave a demo of a South Korean gadget called Poken that allows conference attendees to share their contacts easily. It is a link between the physical and online world.

The video ends with a group Poken, so viewer discretion is advised.

A few quick highlights of his observations (I will add more later):

- Scoble came to China most concerned about censorship and the Great Firewall, but left more worried about China’s impact on climate change.

- China may be concentrating on C2C business for now (Copy to China), but original ideas are on the way. This is driven in part by the copy culture creating several Twitters and Facebooks, which will force the competitors to innovate in new ways.

- Compared with a previous visit 12 years ago: China is changing. Fast. Also, China is big. Very big.

I recently caught up with famed video blogger Robert Scoble, who shared his top five tips for video blogging.

One tip: Avoid starting a video like I did this one!

Scoble’s pointers:

1- Be interesting (which is tough to define, but you’ll know it when you see it.)

2- Focus on a niche and own that niche: If you have separate topics of interest, consider running them on different blogs.

3- Slice and dice to make your videos searchable. Do only one topic per video.

4- Pay attention your shooting technique. The brightest thing in the room should be behind you. Audio matters a lot more than anything else you do. Use a tripod, if possible. That said, concentrate on doing good video content before obsessing over technical issues.

5- Keep it short. If you are doing longer videos, make sure to edit.

Further great tips at this posting/video I did with Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing.

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Uber video blogger Robert Scoble announced today at LeWeb3 in Paris that he is leaving Podtech for greener pastures.

Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence while he worked as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He co-authored (with Shel Israel) the book Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk.

I caught up with Scoble just after he left the stage and had him describe his plans ahead.

Scoble plans to join Fast Company or start his own company, with the intention of revolutionizing the video format by using top of the line equipment to live broadcasting via mobile phones and such.

Scoble fought against the notion of creating CNN 2.0, insisting that he wanted something entirely new, not something derivative.

More details in the video…

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