ChiefTech
OCTOBER 16, 2008
The “IDEA Conference&# :[link] took place in Chicago on October 7-9 at the Harold Washington Library Center. The speakers pushed the boundaries of what it means to design complex information spaces of all kinds. We can all expand our practice by absorbing their experiences and ideas. In cooperation with the “IA Institute&# :[link] we’re happy to bring you recordings of most conference talks.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Next up in our ongoing tour of conversations at Web 2 next week is Lance Armstrong , the seven time winner of the Tour de France, who recently announced his "de-reitrement" and is going for an eighth win. This appearance, a dinner conversation on day one , is one of Lance's only public appearances since he announced his comeback. He's also an internet entrepreneur, having launched Livestrong.com , a health site, earlier this summer.
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Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 14, 2008
I’ve just attended the one day, highly-focused executive ‘Cloud Summit‘ conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. The exhibits on the ground floor of the museum [.
Scary Beasts Security
OCTOBER 20, 2008
A little late on this report, but here are some Python runtime bugs I found back in May 2007: [link] Nothing too interesting. It continues to illustrate that modules backed by native code are a great way to break out of a VM. Also, image manipulation code remains a hot spot for integer overflows. The pickle bug is worth talking about. It has been known for trusted applications to unpickle untrusted data.
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ChiefTech
OCTOBER 9, 2008
If you are an Image & Data Manager magazine (IDM) subscriber, my latest article that looks at the three alternative Intranet 2.0 strategies, titled Too cool for school , is now out in print in the September/October 2008 edition. This article was based on many of the ideas I put forward in a workshop I ran last year on Intranet 2.0 and its worth reading the article and browsing the slides at the same time (just so you don’t get confused, I was still with CSC at that time, hence the CSC bran
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ChiefTech
OCTOBER 19, 2008
The only reason I know Jeremy Thomas is through his blog , but I was always impressed by his thoughtful and pragmatic posts about Enterprise 2.0. So, when I heard he had co-authored a book on implementing Enterprise 2.0 (with Aaron Newman from Techrigy ), I was really pleased to be sent a copy from him to review. Just to set your expectations, this book is mostly focused on the implementation of the technology behind Enterprise 2.0.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Well, if you're wondering what I've been doing, it's simple - my back is back. Ten years ago, when I was three years into a rocket ship new company, my back blew out in a huge way, and it took me months to get back. I was never the same again (goodbye, contact sports), but I did find yoga as a religion of sorts, and learned all sorts of things about what was important in life.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 30, 2008
I'm watching this unfold, OpenID, Facebook Connect, Y!OS, Microsoft support, Google support.it's supposedly a big group hug, but it feels like a war, folks. And it's not pretty. Note this : A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google's made the switch to OpenID, joining Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks OpenID providers.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 27, 2008
OK. I'm curious - is using a wiki this way , *really* any different from the virtual teaming and collaboration leading practices we were promoting nearly a decade ago with Lotus Notes ? ( see my case study from 2004 ) At Ernst & Young Australia we even supported account teams with a structured process to deploy project databases (called Engagement Team Databases and Pursuit Team Databases , they could be deployed on demand using an automated process) where users could edit each others pages
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 14, 2008
Next Thursday, IPP Consulting will be hosting a free Enterprise Search Focus Group to look at the challenges of implementing Web-like search inside organisations. That’s the requirement that comes up all the time – give me a “ Google-like search capability â€â€¦ but why is it so hard? This focus group follows the success of our mini KM Bootcamp last month and was inspired by the response to this post the other week.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 29, 2008
which should not be a surprise to regular readers of this site. I am on a list of "CEOs for Obama" and have been donating to Obama's campaign. Why am I posting this now? To a media/tech site? Well, I was inspired by Tim. Faced with these problems, we need a president who can harness the best and brightest our country has to offer, a president who is conversant with, and comfortable with, the power of technology to assist in solving these problems, a president who is good at listening, studying,
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 29, 2008
For the better part of a year, we at FM have been working on an innovative new project with Asus and Intel. Today it launched. WePC.com is an experiment in crowdsourcing an entirely new piece of hardware, and I'm very proud of the work we've done together. Check out my first submission - the LowJackPC. The idea here is to gather the collective intelligence of PC users to help build a smarter, better machine.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 26, 2008
From the man (yes, my partner on Web 2 Summit, so I am biased) who helped start the meme: value is migrating to a new kind of layer, which we now call Web 2.0, which consists of applications driven not just by software but by network-effects databases driven by explicit or implicit user contribution.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 23, 2008
Larry Brilliant, the Executive Director of Google.org, is the face and mind behind Google's philanthropic entity. Here's a snip from his bio: Larry is an M.D. and M.P.H., board-certified in preventive medicine and public health. He is a founder and director of The Seva Foundation, which works in dozens of countries around the world, primarily to eliminate preventable and curable blindness.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 12, 2008
Continuing my crowdsourcing of questions for one-on-one conversations at this week's CM Summit is Joel Hyatt, CEO of Current. Founded in 2005, Current is "the only 24/7 cable and satellite television network and Internet site produced and programmed in collaboration with its audience." The company has grown to nearly $64 million in revenues (2007) but has yet to hit profits, early this year it filed a public offering ($100 mm in proceeds), which has not completed due, one presumes, to market con
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 10, 2008
This stuff is going to get real, soon. From Google's latest Technology Roundtable Series : [This] video, "Applications of Human Language Technology," is a discussion of our enormous progress in large-scale automated translation of languages and speech recognition. Both of these technology domains are coming of age with capabilities that will truly impact what we expect of computers on a day-to-day basis.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 31, 2008
Some new research suggests that videoconferencing is less effective because it distorts decision making but I'm not really sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Perhaps this is really the effect of using videoconferencing with people who are only used to a one-way interaction with television? You know, the type of people who actually believe what television news tells them about the world.
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ChiefTech
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Not sure how I missed this from McKinsey & Company research report on Web 2.0 in business from back in July , however none the less it makes interesting reading. They report: “ that after an initial period of promise and trial, companies are coming to understand the difficulty of realizing some of Web 2.0's benefits. Only 21 percent of the respondents say they are satisfied overall with Web 2.0 tools, while 22 percent voice clear dissatisfaction.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 27, 2008
I had just posted this and then a funny thought came to me: LOL. Wikis are *old* technology. Lotus Notes first appeared in 1989, but has much old roots of course. Meanwhile the WWW was invented in 1990, although it also origin backs in the 1980s. And of course the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb , was developed in 1994 and released into the wild in 1995. So really, Wikis are an old technology, just as much as the old man of groupware, Lotus Notes.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 24, 2008
Thanks to a little bit of serendipity while researching Enterprise RSS for my next Image & Data Manager (IDM) magazine article , I had the opportunity to talk to Scott Lewis from Metanews about his Enterprise RSS software, Xenos. Xenos is a different class of Enterprise RSS tool from systems such as Attensa and Newsgator. It is designed for information professionals and other communicators who want to create tailored newsletters and feeds from existing feeds.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 22, 2008
I completely understand the bias here as Symantec Australia are trying to engage in a bit of marketing about their information security products in this article from the Australian IT section: “ ALMOST 80 per cent of local organisations have experienced a data breach in the past five years, with a further 40 per cent reporting between six and 20 known breaches during the period, according to Symantec's first Australian data loss survey… …The main cause of data breaches was lost laptops (45
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The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Considering past discussions about blogging , here is another take on the value of blogging by Dirk Singer and why it isn't dead just yet or being replaced by Twitter. He lists some reasons why he finds it valuable, which I’ll summarise as follows: To create a dialogue with like minded people; To gather and collect information; To practice and fine tune writing skills; and Build personal brand.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 14, 2008
You might recall there was a brief flurry of discussion about the value of commenting in blogs. I noticed that ProBlogger, Darren Rowse, kicked off a discussion on the same topic. Rowse himself doesn’t add a lot of value to the discussion, but the comments on this topic make interesting reading. For the most part, the people reading Rowse ’ blog maintain that comments are important, although no one likes comment spam.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Aside from seeing my new Intranet 2.0 article in print , this week has been interesting for a couple of reasons. I’ve spent most of today with David Gurteen , who started the day by presenting and then running one of his famous Knowledge Cafe sessions for the NSW KM Forum. I had the chance, along with a couple of others from the KM Forum, to talk more informally with him over lunch and then we finished the day with a one-on-one chat I managed to arrange between David and someone with a particu
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 26, 2008
Every so often you come across a web application that is a game changer: the utility of browser plugin reframeit is a hugely powerful adjunct to your use of the entire web. The video above demonstrates marking up the transcript of a political speech with associated facts and links using reframeit that will be associated [.
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Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 28, 2008
As winter draws in throughout the northern hemisphere, the silver lining of the recession we are descending into for the collaboration tools industry is the huge use case justifications for strapped companies of all sizes to take advantage of their products. In an era which is going to see some enterprises in suffering industry sectors fighting [.
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 6, 2008
I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of ‘The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership’ by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading English financial journalist. The book [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 31, 2008
I am really, really busy. So why did I just spend 20 minutes making a dream PC? Because I really want this machine. From my description: This is the continuation of my "Lowjack PC" idea, but now with bells and whistles. One of the things I am most worried about is someone stealing my laptop. It's got ALL my key info on it. I want my PC to know that I'm using it - ie, that it's ME, and not anyone else.
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