John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 13, 2011
Thanks to monster private financings from Groupon and Facebook, as well as the promise of major IPOs from Demand, LinkedIn, Zynga and others, the predictable "watch out, here we go again" buzz is rising up in the press. This article from Ad Age, subtitled "With Billion-Dollar Dot-com Valuations Back in a Big Way, It's Time for Alarm Bells to Start Ringing," is typical of the bunch.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 15, 2011
 A common criticism of modern ’social’ interactions online is that they are just that: superficial socializing to idle away the time. It’s a view often held by people with little or no experience of actually interacting through the modern mediums which are now an integral part of mainstream broadcast media. Twitter has quickly taken center stage in [.
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Robert's Db2
JANUARY 26, 2011
A lot of people like to use DB2 (on whatever platform -- mainframe, Linux/UNIX/Windows, IBM i) as a data server for.NET applications running on Windows servers. IBM facilitates this architecture with the DB2.NET Data Provider, which extends DB2 support for the ADO.NET interface. The DB2.NET Data Provider is included with several of IBM's data server client and driver offerings (more on this momentarily).
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 31, 2011
On January 28, 2011, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP filed comments with the United States Department of Commerce in which the Centre stressed privacy governance based on data stewardship by accountable organizations. The Centre was one of a number of organizations that submitted comments in response to the Department of Commerce’s privacy paper , “ Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework ,” which was r
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Positively RIM
JANUARY 31, 2011
The January/February issue of Information Management magazine contains an article I wrote last November and called "GARP in the Real World". The editors called it "Shoring Up Your Information Governance with GARP", and the pulled all of my real-world citations into a sidebar. Nonetheless, the information is there, and you may find it useful. Non-ARMA members may need to wait until the next issue comes out before the link (the title, above) is active.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2011
In the eighth version of my annual predictions, I'll try to stay focused and clear, the better to score myself a year from now. And while I used the past two weeks of relatively fallow holiday time as a sort of marination period, the truth is I pretty much just sat down and banged these predictions out in one go, just as I have the past seven years.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 30, 2011
2011 should be the year where we begin to see much tighter business definition into various verticals for the word ’social’, which is currently extremely fuzzily focused and meaning different things to different interest groups. This week sees the run up in the USA to Super Bowl XLV, the 45th edition of the final game of [.
Robert's Db2
JANUARY 11, 2011
In the years since mainframe DB2 data sharing was introduced with DB2 for z/OS Version 4 (mid-1990s), I've done a lot of presenting and writing about the technology (e.g., a blog entry from a couple of years ago that provided an overview of the topic). From the get-go, one of the primary benefits of DB2 data sharing was the opportunity to achieve ultra-high availability.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 31, 2011
Connecticut’s newly-elected Attorney General George Jepsen recently announced an agreement with Google, Inc. concerning the company’s refusal to comply with a Civil Investigative Demand brought by his predecessor, freshman Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). According to a January 28, 2011 press release, to facilitate settlement discussions with the Connecticut-led, 40-state coalition, Google will stipulate that “payload data” compiled in 2008 and 2009 “contained URLs of requested Web pages, par
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Positively RIM
JANUARY 4, 2011
My report from November's ARMA International Conference just appeared in the January issue of KM World. Click on the title, above, to follow the link. And watch for an upcoming article on retention in InformationManagementCompare.
Scary Beasts Security
JANUARY 19, 2011
How do you execute code in a turing complete language via the tag? Why, by combining an XSL transform into an SVG image of course! I stumbled across this old file in my archives: [link] If you run it e.g. in Chrome, it'll consume a load of CPU (and subsequently memory if you let it crank). I expect it'll do the same in any WebKit browser, and Opera's error message implies it has all the pieces to follow suit if I tweaked the file a bit.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2011
is the core reason it makes sense for Facebook to be public: Accountability to its customers. The rest of this debate is simply financial folks arguing amongst themselves. Facebook is the greatest repository of data about people's intentions, relationships, and utterances that ever has been created. Period. And a company that owns that much private data should be accountable to the public.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 20, 2011
‘Tis the season for career musical chairs. We all hear about executive leadership changes in a breathless media - Google, HP et al. Further down the hierarchy countless ‘Reductions In Force’, reshuffles and hires are happening this January, with scant media discussion unless it’s a mass layoff, such as the MySpace shrinkage, or a mass business [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 23, 2011
When I wrote Identity and The Independent Web last Fall, I was sketching out the beginnings of what I sense was an important distinction in how we consume the web. This distinction turned on one simple concept: Dependency. Of course, the post itself was nearly 2500 words in length and wandered into all sorts of poorly lit alleys, so one could be forgiven for not easily drawing that conclusion.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 20, 2011
This just in.via WSJ : Google Inc. said co-founder Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt as chief executive, a surprise change atop the Internet giant. Mr. Page will take charge of day-to-day operations as CEO starting April 4. Mr. Schmidt will become executive chairman of the company, focusing externally on partnerships and government outreach. Moments after Google announced the change, Mr.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 25, 2011
Lately I've become a bit obsessed with predicting the future. Not the present future, as in one year from now - I do that every year , after all. But the long-ish future, as in ten to twenty years out. That kind of a time horizon is tantalizing, because it's within the reach of our reason - if only we play the right trends out, and anticipate new ones that could defensibly emerge.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 10, 2011
From Paid Content, a tale of two very different eras: Yahoo In 1996. Age: 1 year. Annual sales: $1.3 million. Net loss: $0.6 million. Total raised in IPO: $33.8 million. Market value at close: $848 million. Employees: 49. Facebook In 2012. Age: 8 years. Annual sales: $1.2 billion-plus. Net income: $355 million-plus (2010 estimates). Last valuation: $50 billion.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 19, 2011
Seems so. I've written about this a lot, so much that I won't bother to link to all the stuff I've posted. It was the basis of a chapter in the book, where I pointed out that (at the time) Google claimed algorithmic innocence, and Yahoo, on the other hand, was cheerful in its presumption that Yahoo services were the best answer to certain high value searches (like "mail").
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 21, 2011
I did a short bit on Bloomberg (they have some amazing studios in SF on the water, had not been there, good to see my old pal Cory, who is now working there).
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 31, 2011
Jive software just released a December 2010 customer survey of 500 individuals (from CEO to individual contributor), representing more than 300 companies worldwide, a large percentage of whom have more than 10,000 employees, on the business benefits of their ‘Social Business’ software. The report, which was conducted by an unnamed independent research firm, claims three key findings: 1) Jive customers are [.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 6, 2011
I had a sobering experience in Buenos Aires just before Christmas - I lost my iPhone. For the following few days I retraced my steps in my mind…I’d either left it in a taxi in 100 degree heat or it had been pick pocketed in a crowded GalerÃas PacÃfico shopping mall. More importantly I’d left it [.
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Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 25, 2011
While many people muse over the possibilities for cloud computing, not unlike the trailer for the Cloud Appreciation Society DVD called ‘Cloud Spotting‘ above, enterprise end users try to divine their path forward through the thick information fog of possibilities. Spoilt for choice this spring in an increasingly crowded market of technology vendors, many of whom [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 18, 2011
Over the weekend, as I pondered an eMarketer report estimating Facebook's advertising revenue at $1.86 billion (seems low), I wondered to myself: When will Facebook start to drive the kind of widespread graymarket activity which proved Google's immense worth? Or will it ever? Allow me to explain. Back in the days when Google and its rival Overture were on the rise (this would be pre-IPO for Google, so around 2002-3), an army of small time arbitragers were gathering, leveraging Adwords (and in 20
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 1, 2011
Because I want to know. Google, really, really, really. It's time to pivot your business and make this happen. More later. Just posting this as a thought after a long talk with my 14 year old son, who wants to write apps. And funny, so do I.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 24, 2011
Aw heck, two weeks ago I promised to round up each week's Signal every Friday, and then last Friday I went and forgot to do it. So here'tis, a day or so late but no less the punchy for it. (There was no Monday Signal as it was a holiday). Friday Signal: A New Page at Google. Thursday Signal: It's Breakfast Time. Weds. Signal: Facebook Again, By Gollum!
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2011
In my prediction #7 from last year : Traditional search results will deteriorate to the point that folks begin to question search's validity as a service. I gave myself a "fail" on this when I graded myself last week. But Anli makes a case in "THREE'S A TREND: THE DECLINE OF GOOGLE SEARCH QUALITY". As for 2011 predictions, I'm working on that right now, and hope to have them out later today.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2011
Most of you know by now that I do a short summary of the day's news over on the FM Blog. This year I'm going to try to do a Friday summary of the week's Signals here on Searchblog. Here's the first of the year: Monday Signal: The CES-less Hangover. Tuesday Signal: Murdoch and Jobs and Verizon, Oh My! Weds. Signal: Do We Have a Quora Yet? Thursday Signal: Internet By the Numbers.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 18, 2011
Over the weekend, as I pondered an eMarketer report estimating Facebook's advertising revenue at $1.86 billion (seems low), I wondered to myself: When will Facebook start to drive the kind of widespread graymarket activity which proved Google's immense worth? Or will it ever? Allow me to explain. Back in the days when Google and its rival Overture were on the rise (this would be pre-IPO for Google, so around 2002-3), an army of small time arbitragers were gathering, leveraging Adwords (and in 20
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