John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The “fediverse” is, according to Wikipedia, “…a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”… is an ensemble of social networks which can communicate with each other, while remaining independent platforms. ” That doesn’t quite do the concept justice, but it’s a start.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Facebook responds by doubling down on its communications strategy of pushing pro-Facebook narratives (and no longer apologizing) but, embarrassingly, has to delay Instagram for Kids. And NFTs – the web3 equivalent of dot com stocks – grew into a massive market as well, clocking more than $10 billion in purchases last quarter.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 6, 2023

But while AI funding tipped into a frenzy with OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT last November, Gather managed to raise an impressive seed round five months earlier, in June of 2022. First, Gather The Data My Amazon data in Gather: Who knew I bought that back in 2006?! We’ll get into all of that, but first, the product.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

One afternoon in the spring of 2006. Vamosi: Just before CanSecWest 2022, a British security group NCC announced a Bluetooth BLE vulnerability that was very similar to what Martin was going to talk about. For example, electronic stability control requires communication between the accelerator, the brakes, and the individual wheels.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

” What Schmidt was referring to was an incident when a common backhoe severed a strategic Sprint communications line in the United States. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006. They will get immunity for prosecution and they will get $10 million. That event did more damage than any computer virus or worm at the time.

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