Robert Scoble rages over Google Events spam

Top comment on Youtube:<p>"Robert Scoble, you asked for it. Under Calendar Settings&#62;General Automatically add invitations to my calendar: - Yes - Yes, but don't send event reminders unless I have responded "Yes" or "Maybe" - No, only show invitations to which I have responded Check the settings, dumbfuck. "

IBM didn't get the PC, so they lost relevance. Microsoft didn't get the web, so they lost relevance. Both are still huge companies, grossing billions a year (but hit on their valuation by the public market). Maybe in 10 years we'll be saying "google didn't get social", so they lost their relevance. Would that be the case? Only time will tell.

i hate to agree with scoble but he's 100% right -- google gives you no control over who can invite you to an event, and that's bad usability. i was also really sort of shocked to find that a user can't control who can invite them to an event. honestly over the past year every time that google tries to "improve" the quality of the service goes down...

Seems this will be fixed in some manner. From Wil Wheatons post on the same topic -<p>+Vic Gundotra says "We are doing exactly what you requested. We should have contemplated and anticipated how people would abuse this and how painful this could be for celebrities with large followings.<p>We have pushed a number of fixes yesterday (some were bug fixes that showed up at scale). Expect more fixes today. Sorry for the trouble Will."<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/108176814619778619437/posts/BC8NZR8bTAW" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/108176814619778619437/posts/BC8NZR8b...</a>

Scoble is one of those people who sound really funny when they swear. He sounds really out a character and despite his point having merit, he sounds like a whiny little nerd.

I invited him to come watch the sunset in Bernal Heights. My bad Robert!

like, i understand why he's frustrated but.. really? is that all it takes for scoble to get that upset?

<i>coughs</i> first world problem <i>coughs</i>