John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Jonathan Zittrain has an important op ed up on Harvard’s site , and I hope all of you will go read it. It sums up many of the points that I hit as I write here at Searchblog, and that will enliven my next book What We Hath Wrought. Key points: Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
Despite the apparent pace of urgent change proposed by hi tech company marketing, enterprises are more circumspect in identifying their best paths forward to achieve their goals.
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Elie
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
In this post we are going to take a closer look on what are the current phishing tactics employed in the wild. The trends uncovered by analyzing our new data-set of 5000 recents phishing sites will change the way you think about phishing.
Robert's Db2
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
IBM's 2011 Information on Demand conference took place last week in Las Vegas. I attended a number of the event's technical sessions, and summarized what I heard in some of those sessions in a couple of entries posted to this blog. In this entry, my last focused on IOD 2011, I'll provide some of the more interesting items of information that I picked up in the "coffee track" -- that being the term often used to describe discussions that take place during coffee breaks and otherwise outside of th
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JKevinParker
NOVEMBER 5, 2011
I am a Certified Information Professional. I just passed the proctored exam and received my CIP Examination Score Report. In a few weeks I should have access to the official logo and credentials. While for obvious reasons test takers cannot retain a copy of any questions answered incorrectly (or otherwise), this Score Report shows the percentage correct for each section.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
In the vein of documenting how the world most likely will look one generate hence, my researcher and I have been taking a look at a number of key global drivers. One, of course, is how we govern ourselves (you can see posts on that topic here and here ). Another is global population. Working with data from the US Census Bureau and International Data Base , we’ve also overlayed some information from Internet World Stats , though for now, the fit is imperfect.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
It takes hard work to create simplicity: unless IT security is allowed to move with the rapidly changing times to enable greater efficiencies, outmoded and sometimes irrelevant rules will hamstring enterprises.
Elie
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Since the introduction of HTTPS by Netscape, the lock icon have been the indicator of choice to tell users that their communication is secure. Over the years, this “prestigious” icon shape and position kept changing from browser to browser and from version to version so I made a couple of infographic to illustrate this. I hope you will enjoy them.
Preservica
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
It's great to see our work getting some mentions in the UK national press, with the Guardian's "Media Planet" supplement article on search and deploy technologies. See here for more [link].
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.
Positively RIM
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Collaboration software and social media led several maturing topics at ARMA International’s annual conference and expo near Washington D.C., October 16-19. Born in records management, ARMA showed an accelerating metamorphosis into Information Governance, as the definition of “record” expanded again. The transformation, first observed a year ago, reflects court decisions requiring management of information – not just official records -- in all formats and media.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Lithuanian firm LAWIN Lideika, Petrauskas, Vali?nas ir partneriai reports that recent amendments to Lithuania’s Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Electronic Communications have established a breach notification requirement. Specifically, providers of publicly-available electronic communications services or of public communications networks must notify the data protection authority of data security breaches, and, when the breach is likely to have an adverse effect on the pri
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Yesterday I met with Christopher Ahlberg , the PhD co-founder of Recorded Future , a company I noted in these pages back in mid-2010. Ahlberg is one of those rare birds you just know is making stuff that matters – a scientist, an entrepreneur, a tinkerer, and an enthusiast all wrapped into one. He ran me through Recorded Future’s technology and business model, and I found it impressive.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
The global black market economy is estimated at around 10 trillion a year, easily making it the second-largest economy on Earth, rivaling the United States in size. Where does the ‘informal’ economy end and the black market begin, and how do we foster ingenuity in formal business collaboration without crossing criminal lines?
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
JKevinParker
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
AIIM now offers the new Information Certification. According to the AIIM Web site , The new Information certification demonstrates your ability to solve an. organization's existing information-related problems as well as plan for the future. The objectives outlined for the certification are as follows: Certified information professionals contribute to the success of. their organizations by helping address the following kinds of. information management challenges (both on-premises and in the clou
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
European cloud users are expressing increasing concern over the effect of the USA Patriot Act. The Act entitles US authorities […].
Robert's Db2
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
DB2 for z/OS data sharing is great technology. One of the things that makes it great is the ability of a data sharing system to automatically spread work across DB2 members so as to optimize load balancing, throughput, and availability. For this we can thank the z/OS workload manager (WLM), the DB2 group attach capability (for local-to-DB2 applications such as batch programs and utilities), and the Sysplex awareness built into DB2 Connect, the IBM Data Server Driver, and other DB2 clients (for r
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
On November 17, 2011, the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (“GDD”) held its 35th Privacy Conference (“DAFTA”) in Cologne, Germany. At the opening plenary session, Paul Nemitz, Director for Fundamental Rights and Citizenship of the European Commission, announced that the European Commission plans to implement a Regulation that is directly applicable to all EU Member States, to harmonize data protection laws in Europe.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
( image ) As I begin to dig into the work of my next book, I’ve found myself thinking about politics and government far more than I anticipated. (For initial thoughts and stats, see Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights ). While the body politic was always going to be one of the main pillars of the book , I didn’t expect it to push itself to the foreground so quickly.
JKevinParker
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
The following playlist includes videos from AIIM's Information Certification training on Enterprise Search posted to their YouTube channel.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
I hate to pick on the good folks at TextPlus , because I like the service (and my kids do too). But my family recently had an experience that reminded me how stunted the advertising ecosystem remains in the (relatively) new world of apps. Quite serendipitously, after that experience I had the pleasure of meeting the CEO of Gogii, the company behind TextPlus.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook have come to terms on consumer privacy, an issue the FTC formally raised in an eight-count complaint earlier this year. Both sides have announced the pact in their own particular way. On Facebook’s blog , CEO Mark Zuckerberg strikes a diplomatic tone with a dash of mea culpa. “Overall, I think we have a good history of providing transparency and control over who can see your information,” he writes. “That said, I’m the firs
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
I’ve spent the better part of a few days thinking through the theme(s) of FM’s Signal series of conferences for the upcoming year. I’ve got a ton of thoughts scrawled across my whiteboards, but then a thought woke me up in the middle of the night – why don’t I ask all of you what you think are the most important trends for digital marketing in 2012?
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
This week Ad Age published All Brands Are Publishers, Learn How to Be a Good One , by yours truly. In it I summarize six or so years of work I’ve done outlining terms like “ conversational media ,” which I first outlined on this site, “brands as publishers,” also written about first in these pages and at FM’s home , and of course the Independent Web (again, here).
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
As early as 2003, which was the first year I began writing this site, I wrote about the idea of “video as grammar.” By this I meant (and mean) that I foresaw a day when our culture communicated with itself using video much as we currently use text. In order for this to happen, a number of things had to fall in place. First, we needed tools that allow for quick and easy “video processing” – we need the Microsoft Word for video.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
I’ve always been quite interested in commenting systems for the Independent Web, and when it came time to redesign this site, I chose to use Disqus , an independent company that is a leader in the space. Disqus has its detractors, but it has many more fans. The company has nearly 1 million sites using the services and is rolling out new features very quickly.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Bing released its top searches of the year today, continuing the trend of presuming the year ends before December begins (watch for Yahoo and Google’s lists in the next week or so). Once again, the data is utterly uninspiring and shallow. I mean, did we really not know that the US is fascinated with celebrities and iPhones? This is becoming something of a trope for me, but given all the data to which search giants like Microsoft and Google have access, I’d love to see some real data
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
On November 16, 2011, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2010 (the “Report”) highlighting its main 2010 accomplishments and outlining some of its priorities for the upcoming year. This year’s Report covers events that occurred since last year’s publication of the Annual Activity Report for 2009.
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