John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 29, 2013

'The post An Afternoon at the Media Lab: Where The Lines Between Physical and Digital Are Permeable appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Yesterday I took my son to the MIT Media Lab, hallowed ground for me, as reading Stewart Brand’s 1988 “ The Media Lab ” propelled me toward helping to create Wired magazine, where I edited the founding Director of the Lab, Nicholas Negroponte , for five years (he wrote the back column of the magazine).

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

'In 2008 I met Kris Krug. We share several auspiciously random overlapping networks, and since 2008 our friendship has blossomed into a deep personal friendship and working collaboration. Kris is professional photographer / photo journalist and he has some fantastic clients including TED.com, United Nations, National Geographic, and the company that I'm working for, Esri.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 8, 2013

'Talking SMAAC and actually achieving business goals are two very different things as digital business needs mature'

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ChiefTech

JULY 31, 2013

'I just discovered some work by Paul Leonardi, a professor of communication at Northwestern University with an appointment at the Kellogg School in the US, who has been researching what he calls ''Enterprise Social Media'' (ESM). Investigating the implementation of a enterprise social network , called A-Life, at a credit card company, he found that after six months those who had used the enterprise social networking site had: improved their ability to find information by 31%. improved their abil

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Robert's Db2

JULY 25, 2013

Plenty of folks know that LOB inlining is one of the really great enhancements delivered with DB2 10 for z/OS (it's something about which I blogged last year). I've noticed lately, however, that a fair number of people have some misconceptions regarding two important aspects of LOB inlining, namely the relationship between inlining and LOB table spaces, and scenarios in which LOB inlining is and is not a good idea from an application performance perspective.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 10, 2013

'The post A Social, Elastic Model for Paid Content appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I was interested to read today that Esquire is currently experimenting with a per-article paywall. For $1.99, you can read a 10,000-word piece about a neurosurgeon who claims to have visited heaven. Esquire’s EIC on the experiment: “… great journalism—and the months that go into creating it—isn’t free.

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JKevinParker

JULY 29, 2013

Microsoft maintains a "Known Issues" page for Office 365, including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online. Check it for your current issues: Office 365 Known Issues.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 8, 2013

'Talking SMAAC and actually achieving business goals are two very different things as digital business needs mature'

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ChiefTech

JULY 27, 2013

'Matt O''Hara, CEO of two registered social and sporting clubs in Wollongong, Australia, joins a growing list of businesses like Volvo, ATOS , Halton Housing Trust , and Ferrari that are actively changing how email is used inside their organisations. The Telegraph newspaper reports that: "As boss of Oak Flats Bowling Club and the Illawarra Yacht Club, the 41-year-old yesterday said that he had been spending as much as 25 hours a week sorting through, reading and replying to emails.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 31, 2013

On July 26, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced updates to its frequently asked questions regarding the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). The updated FAQs, which have replaced the June 2013 version on the FTC’s Business Center website, provide additional information in the sections addressing websites and online services directed to children and disclosure of information to third parties.

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CGI

JULY 16, 2013

Getting Value from New Data Sources In Policing – Part 2, Limited By Search. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 07/16/2013 - 08:00. As described in my previous blog I recently presented at the UK Police Strategy Forum on ‘Gaining value from your data & leveraging new data sources’ and I wanted to share some observations on the second topic I covered: Why Search is limiting the value police get from their data.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 19, 2013

'The post LinkedIn On A Roll appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s been pretty obvious from the stock price , but LinkedIn, which I’ve written about every so often, is really on a roll lately. The influencer content play (which I will admit I’ve been part of , in a small way) is a clear winner, the company is enjoying very positive press, and its premium services are getting really interesting as well.

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JKevinParker

JULY 29, 2013

After transitioning our company to Office 365, I noticed some meetings being scheduled showing some users had their time zone set to "(UTC) Monrovia, Reykjavik". Users are prompted to choose their time zone when first logging in to Office 365 Outlook Web App, so there is a way to fix this. The problem is that not all users chose to do that. To fix this in bulk, use PowerShell.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 7, 2013

'Talking SMAAC and actually achieving business goals are two very different things as digital business needs mature.

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ChiefTech

JULY 11, 2013

'The idea of replacing a traditional or static intranet with enterprise social network is an idea that has been floating around for sometime. However, opinion is quite divided - some will tell you can''t and shouldn''t be done, while others will urge you on to just do it. In this case study global information services and publishing company, Wolters Kluwer group, made a deliberate decision to replace their intranet with Yammer.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 30, 2013

On July 16, 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (the “MIIT”) issued a new rule entitled Provisions on the Registration of Real Identity Information of Telephone Users (the “Provisions”), which will take effect on September 1, 2013. The Provisions were issued pursuant to the Resolution of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Relating to Strengthening the Protection of Information on the Internet (the “Resolution”) and the

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CGI

JULY 11, 2013

Getting Value from New Data Sources in Policing – Part 1, Citizen Engagement. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 07/11/2013 - 08:00. In June, I presented at the UK Police Strategy Forum on ‘ Gaining value from your data & leveraging new data sources’, so I thought I’d share a few of my own observations from the event. The 2 days brought together Chief Constables, Chairs, Chief Execs, Chief Tech Officers, and Heads of Department from Police Authorities across the UK, including some of the UK’s biggest

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 16, 2013

'The post The PRISMner’s Dilemma appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Sometimes when you aren’t sure what you have to say about something, you should just start talking about it. That’s how I feel about the evolving PRISM story – it’s so damn big, I don’t feel like I’ve quite gotten my head around it.

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JKevinParker

JULY 19, 2013

I had major problems with my SkyDrive Pro sync for Office 365. When I first set it up on my Windows 8 laptop, SkyDrive Pro was syncing with the following folder: C:Users[my user folder]SkyDrive Pro Later on I had to re-sync and then it started using this folder: C:Users[my user folder]SkyDrive @ [My Company] That's fine, so I renamed my old "SkyDrive Pro" folder to avoid confusion.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 7, 2013

'Talking SMAAC and actually achieving business goals are two very different things as digital business needs mature.

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ChiefTech

JULY 18, 2013

'I''ve previously written about the Royal Mail''s externally accessible staff website (unfortunately, if you are outside the UK they have now geoblocked the content). Here are some more examples, both supermarkets in the UK, who make their employee ''intranet'' accessible (i.e. not behind a login or VPN) over the public Web: Asda Green Room blog. Out Tesco , which also includes information about staff benefits and working at Tesco.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

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.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 30, 2013

On July 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced the release of the Short Form Notice Code of Conduct to Promote Transparency in Mobile App Practices , which was developed through the Privacy Multistakeholder Process: Mobile Application Transparency convened by the Department of Commerce.

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Robert's Db2

JULY 21, 2013

Recently I had an e-mail exchange with my friend, colleague, and fellow DB2 blogger Willie Favero, on the subject of DB2 for z/OS group buffer pool sizing. One of my messages was a little wordy (imagine that), and Willie responded with, "[This] reads like it could be your next blog post." And so it is. In this entry I'll share with you what I think is an interesting story, along with some information that I hope will help you with group buffer pool monitoring and tuning.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 30, 2013

'The post Liquid Markets Win: On Boats, Planes and Automobiles appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. One of the key themes in our upcoming book has to do with the interaction of information and the physical world – in particular, how all things physical become “liquid” when activated by just the right information. But when you’re writing (and thinking out loud) about this topic, it’s easy to fall into an academic cadence, because information theory is

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JKevinParker

JULY 19, 2013

I generally love irony, unless it involves my information management solutions. Consider this extremely common scenario: I use Microsoft Office 365 for Outlook, SharePoint, etc. I go to log in to Office 365 using Microsoft Internet Explorer. I check the "Keep me signed in" box because I am on my company computer, and I don't want to have to log in every time.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 7, 2013

'The post Brand Pride appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The Citi float at the Pride Parade in New York. About 200 Citi employees marched behind the float, many riding “Citibikes,” one of Citi’s most visible marketing programs in NYC. Last week I was fortunate to be in New York City over the weekend, accompanied by most of my family.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 13, 2013

'The post Fred Wilson and I In 18 Minutes appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I had a chance to be interviewed with Fred Wilson by Dave Morgan of Simulmedia (and Tacoda and and and…). The video is fun and ranges around from OpenCo to the future of the Web, so I thought I’d share it here: The post Fred Wilson and I In 18 Minutes appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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ChiefTech

JULY 25, 2013

'If you are looking for more detail about VXConnect , this Salesforce Webinar features Virgin America''s Benjamin Eye , who explains the objectives behind their mobile, social intranet : The Virgin America case study itself is covered between the approximate 8 minute and 36 minute mark. Question and answer starts at about the 43 minute mark.

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