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April 19 – 21, 2010. Join us next week at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., This year’s summit features three days of intensive programs and networking with more 1,500 privacy professionals. We also hope you will visit our privacy professionals who are speaking on the following panels: The Essential Elements of Accountability and Baking Them into a Privacy Business Process. Tuesday April 20, 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. MORE
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The Archives is pleased to announce that over twelve thousand photographs from the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay (OTR) – showing virtually every torchbearer that participated in the relay – have been processed and are now accessible through our online database. MORE
One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Eighteen months ago I was tracking its inflection point in usage (holy shit, look how it's growing! Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!), MORE
( image ) I just reviewed this presentation from Paul Adams , research lead for social at Google (embedded below). He works on Buzz and YouTube, and presumably, whatever is next from Google, including the rumored "Google Me.". MORE
ATD is reporting that Google is offering well more than twice what had been previously offered - $6 billion, instead of $2.5 billion. That sounds more like it. As I wrote yesterday, $2.5 billion sounded very low for this particular asset. And this from the guy who thought YouTube was overpriced.). MORE
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I'm very proud of a new platform launched today by American Express: Currency. Sometimes when a brand embraces the concept of truly being a publisher, they align with strong voices around the web, underwriting existing properties and helping them create new sections or services. MORE
The New York Times published a story on the practice of retargeting today, entitled " Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites." While not nearly as presumptively negative as the WSJ series on marketing and data, it's telling that the story is slugged with "adstalk" in the URL. MORE
Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research View more presentations from CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time The most tweeted Slideshare of the show so far is Mary's presentation. Here it is for your reading pleasure! MORE
In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. MORE
Predictions 2010 I'll be getting to this in a post later this week. The 2010 Web2 Summit Theme: Points of Control Introducing the theme of this year's event. MORE
This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space. MORE
Regular readers may recall one this prediction for 2010 : Google will make a corporate decision to become seen as a software brand rather than as "just a search engine." Yesterday a reporter from Cnet called and asked me a few provocative questions. MORE
FM has been a pioneer in bringing integrated, scaleable brand marketing to social media, first with blogs (2005), and then Digg (2006), the Facebook platform (2007), live events (Crowdfire 2008), Twitter (2009) and now location services like Foursquare (2010). MORE
Related: Predictions 2010. So how did I do for 2010? To the results: Prediction #1: 2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web. I think this clearly happened in 2010. Prediction #3: 2010 will see a major privacy brouhaha, not unlike the AOL search debacle but around social and/or advertising related data. 2010 will be remembered as the year privacy took center stage. Prediction #6: 2010 will see the rise of an open gaming platform. MORE
Why should Foursquare in 2010 be any different? Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. MORE
( image ) Today I landed from a trip to the world of the non-tech obsessed (PA and OH) to find my newsfeed was full of speculation that Google MUST buy Twitter , or be damned to obscurity in a race its already losing to Facebook. Not so fast. MORE
Today's big rumor, so far at least, is that Google may be buying Groupon for a reported $2.5 billion. This sale has been rumored for some time, but the figure - and story - is based on a rather thin piece by VatorNews which broke early this morning. MORE
On April 8, 2010, the Digital Economy Act (the “Act”), containing provisions relating to online copyright infringement, network infrastructure and digital safety, became law in the UK. The final text of the Act , which was published on April 12, 2010, may be accessed on the website of the Office of Public Sector Information. MORE
South by Southwest. Austin calls again. Last year was all time. This year should be even better. I’ll be there from March 11-19th, will you? I’m on a panel too talking about the “ RoadTwip &# we took across America last year. Here’s the event info–> [link MORE
From the IAB release on first quarter 2010: Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. billion for the first quarter of 2010, representing a 7.5 You already knew this if you read my Predictions for 2010 , #9 MORE
as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It's another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box. It's not that Apple hates the web, it's just that Apple is better than the web. Apple doesn't need it. MORE
( image ) Recently I was watching television with my wife, a baseball game if memory serves, when an advertisement caught my eye. It was for a regional restaurant chain (not a national one like Jack in the Box). The ad was pretty standard fare - a call to action (go now!) MORE
2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web. 2010 will see a major privacy brouhaha , not unlike the AOL search debacle but around social and/or advertising related data. Google will take most of the brand blame, but also do the most to address the issue in 2010. MORE
After several delays and revisions, the Massachusetts information security regulations, entitled “Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth,” will take effect on March 1, 2010. The regulations apply to entities that own or license personal information about Massachusetts residents. MORE
(Cross posted from the Web 2 Summit Blog.). As themes for conferences go, Points of Control is one of our favorites. MORE
The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days. It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search. MORE
After I posted the list of out-of-the-box Web parts for SharePoint Server 2010 , I created a two-page, downloadable cheat sheet. Download the free SharePoint Server 2010 Web Parts: Cheat Sheet in PDF format. cheat sheet download reference SharePoint SharePoint 2010 Web parts MORE
Are we are evolving our contract with society through our increasing interactions with digital platforms, and in particular, through what we've come to call the web? I believe the answer is yes. MORE
We have added another 4,830 torch-relay images to the VANOC records already available on our AtoM site. These images belong to series AM1550-S08: Olympic Torch Relay – highlight photographs. MORE
On March 17, 2010, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published a report concerning on-site inspections and outlined its objectives for the coming year. MORE
I had a good call today with Dennis Woodside, who runs North American Sales for Google, and Susan Wojcicki, who runs products. Both are long timers at Google, Susan is pretty much a llfer - she joined in 1999. MORE
For 2010, Web 2 will focus on the chess game in which all of these companies are now engaged, a battle to gain the upper hand in crucial "points of control" across the Internet Economy. Each year at the Web 2 Summit , Tim and I try to focus our program on an overarching theme that we believe best sums up the year ahead. This is never easy to do - the event is still eight months away. MORE
( image ). We're used to buzz around Apple, and in particular, we're quite used to buzz about how Apple goes to market. MORE
Why should Foursquare in 2010 be any different? Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. MORE
Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company. Their job: market research, essentially. They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years. MORE
2010 Related Topics John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2010
2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web. 2010 will see a major privacy brouhaha , not unlike the AOL search debacle but around social and/or advertising related data. Google will take most of the brand blame, but also do the most to address the issue in 2010.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Predictions 2010 I'll be getting to this in a post later this week. The 2010 Web2 Summit Theme: Points of Control Introducing the theme of this year's event.
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Daradiction
MARCH 5, 2010
South by Southwest. Austin calls again. Last year was all time. This year should be even better. I’ll be there from March 11-19th, will you? I’m on a panel too talking about the “ RoadTwip &# we took across America last year. Here’s the event info–> [link
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Related: Predictions 2010. So how did I do for 2010? To the results: Prediction #1: 2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web. I think this clearly happened in 2010. Prediction #3: 2010 will see a major privacy brouhaha, not unlike the AOL search debacle but around social and/or advertising related data. 2010 will be remembered as the year privacy took center stage. Prediction #6: 2010 will see the rise of an open gaming platform.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to publish a real live playlist, one that links to real music, but for whatever reason, I never seem to be able to. If you guys have an easy way to do it, please let me know.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 21, 2010
For 2010, Web 2 will focus on the chess game in which all of these companies are now engaged, a battle to gain the upper hand in crucial "points of control" across the Internet Economy. Each year at the Web 2 Summit , Tim and I try to focus our program on an overarching theme that we believe best sums up the year ahead. This is never easy to do - the event is still eight months away.
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Hunton Privacy
APRIL 15, 2010
April 19 – 21, 2010. Join us next week at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., This year’s summit features three days of intensive programs and networking with more 1,500 privacy professionals. We also hope you will visit our privacy professionals who are speaking on the following panels: The Essential Elements of Accountability and Baking Them into a Privacy Business Process. Tuesday April 20, 1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
Archives Blogs
OCTOBER 11, 2018
The Archives is pleased to announce that over twelve thousand photographs from the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay (OTR) – showing virtually every torchbearer that participated in the relay – have been processed and are now accessible through our online database.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Are we are evolving our contract with society through our increasing interactions with digital platforms, and in particular, through what we've come to call the web? I believe the answer is yes.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 8, 2010
Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research View more presentations from CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time The most tweeted Slideshare of the show so far is Mary's presentation. Here it is for your reading pleasure!
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 12, 2010
Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company. Their job: market research, essentially. They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 19, 2010
The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days. It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
( image ) Today I landed from a trip to the world of the non-tech obsessed (PA and OH) to find my newsfeed was full of speculation that Google MUST buy Twitter , or be damned to obscurity in a race its already losing to Facebook. Not so fast.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2010
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Eighteen months ago I was tracking its inflection point in usage (holy shit, look how it's growing! Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!),
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
This third conversation with Mark Zuckerberg was, to my mind, the best so far, and YouTube seems to agree, as it's got more plays than nearly any other save Eric Schmidt (who was featured by YouTube on the homepage). See if you agree
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 10, 2010
( image ) I just reviewed this presentation from Paul Adams , research lead for social at Google (embedded below). He works on Buzz and YouTube, and presumably, whatever is next from Google, including the rumored "Google Me.".
Archives Blogs
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
We have added another 4,830 torch-relay images to the VANOC records already available on our AtoM site. These images belong to series AM1550-S08: Olympic Torch Relay – highlight photographs.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 5, 2010
Why should Foursquare in 2010 be any different? Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions.
JKevinParker
AUGUST 28, 2012
Check out the SharePoint 2010 CSS Reference Chart from Heather Solomon. It is a great tool for anyone doing branding and user interface design for SharePoint 2010. branding CSS design reference SharePoint SharePoint 2010 UI
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
ATD is reporting that Google is offering well more than twice what had been previously offered - $6 billion, instead of $2.5 billion. That sounds more like it. As I wrote yesterday, $2.5 billion sounded very low for this particular asset. And this from the guy who thought YouTube was overpriced.).
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2010
This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 22, 2010
Regular readers may recall one this prediction for 2010 : Google will make a corporate decision to become seen as a software brand rather than as "just a search engine." Yesterday a reporter from Cnet called and asked me a few provocative questions.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 29, 2010
( image ) Recently I was watching television with my wife, a baseball game if memory serves, when an advertisement caught my eye. It was for a regional restaurant chain (not a national one like Jack in the Box). The ad was pretty standard fare - a call to action (go now!)
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
I'm very proud of a new platform launched today by American Express: Currency. Sometimes when a brand embraces the concept of truly being a publisher, they align with strong voices around the web, underwriting existing properties and helping them create new sections or services.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 22, 2010
On March 17, 2010, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published a report concerning on-site inspections and outlined its objectives for the coming year.
JKevinParker
MAY 29, 2012
After I posted the list of out-of-the-box Web parts for SharePoint Server 2010 , I created a two-page, downloadable cheat sheet. Download the free SharePoint Server 2010 Web Parts: Cheat Sheet in PDF format. cheat sheet download reference SharePoint SharePoint 2010 Web parts
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
From the IAB release on first quarter 2010: Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. billion for the first quarter of 2010, representing a 7.5 You already knew this if you read my Predictions for 2010 , #9
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Mary has been giving an overview of the capital markets at Web 2 for seven years running, and this one, framed as lessons for CEOs of Internet companies, is a gem
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 5, 2010
Why should Foursquare in 2010 be any different? Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 29, 2010
(Cross posted from the Web 2 Summit Blog.). As themes for conferences go, Points of Control is one of our favorites.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
After several delays and revisions, the Massachusetts information security regulations, entitled “Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth,” will take effect on March 1, 2010. The regulations apply to entities that own or license personal information about Massachusetts residents.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
I had a good call today with Dennis Woodside, who runs North American Sales for Google, and Susan Wojcicki, who runs products. Both are long timers at Google, Susan is pretty much a llfer - she joined in 1999.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It's another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box. It's not that Apple hates the web, it's just that Apple is better than the web. Apple doesn't need it.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 19, 2010
On April 8, 2010, the Digital Economy Act (the “Act”), containing provisions relating to online copyright infringement, network infrastructure and digital safety, became law in the UK. The final text of the Act , which was published on April 12, 2010, may be accessed on the website of the Office of Public Sector Information.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 30, 2010
The New York Times published a story on the practice of retargeting today, entitled " Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites." While not nearly as presumptively negative as the WSJ series on marketing and data, it's telling that the story is slugged with "adstalk" in the URL.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 25, 2010
FM has been a pioneer in bringing integrated, scaleable brand marketing to social media, first with blogs (2005), and then Digg (2006), the Facebook platform (2007), live events (Crowdfire 2008), Twitter (2009) and now location services like Foursquare (2010).
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 10, 2010
( image ). We're used to buzz around Apple, and in particular, we're quite used to buzz about how Apple goes to market.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Today's big rumor, so far at least, is that Google may be buying Groupon for a reported $2.5 billion. This sale has been rumored for some time, but the figure - and story - is based on a rather thin piece by VatorNews which broke early this morning.
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