Industry Moves: Robert Scoble Moves To PodTech As VP, Media Dev

Robert Scoble, Microsoft and blog evangelist, is leaving Redmond to be VP-media development for Menlo Park podcasting start-up PodTech Network, Inc.. His role as a technical evangelist at Microsoft centered on Channel 9, a video-based site for the Microsoft Developer Network but it was his blog, which he’ll continue, that made him one of the company’s best-known employees. At Podtech, which recently announced $5.5 million in VC funding, Scoble will handle video blogging and other media initiatives. The WSJ has more here. Scoble explains the move. Beet.TV had the scoop, which quickly made the rounds at this weekend’s Vloggercon, and has an interview with PodTech CEO John Furrier and Scoble. Press release.
Update: In the careful-what-you-wish-for category, the PodTech site actually crashed Sunday under the weight of this news.
Related: Podtech.net’s Funding: $5.5 Million

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