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I’ve been quiet on Searchblog for most of the holidays, but I don’t expect that to continue in 2012. I’ve been on vacation these past few days and it’s given me a fair amount of time to reflect on the past year, as well as on what’s to come for 2012. This will be the year of focusing on just two things: Federated Media, and The Book. Both will drive a lot of thinking, writing, and dialog on this site. MORE
I’m going to add another Saturday morning sketch to this site, and offer a caveat to you all: I’ve not bounced this idea off many folks, and the seed of it comes from a source who is unreservedly biased about all this. But I thought this worth airing out, so here you have it. Given that Google+ results are dominating so many SERPs these days, Google is clearly leveraging its power in search to build up Google+. MORE
The post Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back. Till now. I’m not saying I’m switching, but I sure am open to a better solution. MORE
Perusing my feeds today, I saw this post from Google’s blog: Search, plus Your World. In the post, Google extols the virtues of incorporating results such as “your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met. MORE
Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross , Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). Talk naturally turned to the implications of Google’s controversial integration of Google+ into its search results – a move that must both terrify (OMG, Google is gunning for us!) as well as delight (Holy cow, Google is breaking its core promise to its users!). MORE
via youtube.com. Dion Hinchcliffe is visting Australia this week to promote his new book, Social Business by Design , co-authored with Peter Kim. The Headshift Asia Pacific team have been busy lining up speaking events and media interviews all week, however Dion and I have found time to put together a short whitepaper on the state of social business in Australia. This paper provides that all important Australian perspective on the trends and ideas outlines in Dion's book. MORE
The news alert from the Wall St. Journal hit my phone about an hour ago, pulling me away from tasting “ Texas Bourbon ” in San Antonio to sit down and grok this headline: Google’s iPhone Tracking. Now, the headline certainly is attention-grabbing, but the news alert email had a more sinister headline: “Google Circumvented Web-Privacy Safeguards.” ” Wow! What’s going on here? MORE
million settlement with a Massachusetts-based healthcare organization that reported five small health data breaches in 2012 involving lost or stolen unencrypted computing devices Fresenius Medical Care North America Agrees to HIPAA Settlement In one of the largest HIPAA settlements ever, federal regulators have signed a $3.5 MORE
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( image ) Earlier this week I ventured down to the Silicon Valley from my lair on the side of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin. Those of you who have visited Marin might understand why for me, after more than 25 years of working across the bridge in San Francisco and on planes around the world, I find it rather pleasant to just stay in my office and Think Big Thoughts whenever possible. MORE
The main application is based on JBOSS with MSSQL 2012 as the backend database. The post Vagrant, Ansible and Windows 2012 first appeared on Cllax - Top of IT. As part of helping the developers I’m putting together a vagrant VMWare Workstation environment. MORE
I predict that line will change in 2012. Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. For my third prediction of the year, I’m going with one just a tad bit less obvious than “Facebook will go public.” MORE
By some Mayan accounts, 2012 is not going to be a good year for any of us. It all adds up to a massive challenge that I think will come to a head in 2012. In short, it will be a massive challenge to manage this business to scale and succcess in 2012. Or GoogleTV (and by some extension, YouTube): Probably the poster child for “not market ready,” GoogleTV now has very high expectations for 2012, thanks to Chairman Schmidt’s recent comments. MORE
On November 13-15, 2012, delegates at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels were given insight into how discussions with key policymakers are progressing. As European Parliament rapporteur and Member of the European Parliament Jan Philipp Albrecht aims to finalize the reform of the EU Data Protection Directive by the end of the current European Parliament’s mandate in 2014, this ambitious goal faces numerous hurdles. MORE
The post The Facebook Ad Network Is Here appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s been a pretty good year for my annual predictions , I must say. A few months ago I did my “ how’ve I done so far this year ” post, and found myself batting about.500. Yesterday Facebook pushed up my average with the announcement that it’s begun testing a mobile ad network. MORE
The post Post Apple Rant, What Have We Learned? A Visit With A “Genius” Ain’t Enough appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I think I’ve said it before, if you want to attract attention, write about Apple. MORE
Waaaay back in January, I rolled out my annual predictions. Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. I may have to start doing these things monthly, given the pace of our industry. Prediction #5 was that it’d be a big year for Internet M&A. I further singled out Instagram as a company that would likely be bought, and figured there’d be a battle between Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google for the prize. MORE
On December 10, 2012, Tom Field of HealthcareInfoSecurity interviewed Lisa J. Discussing the top legal issues in 2012, Lisa said that data breaches remain at the top of the list, with an increase in malicious cyberattacks. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP. She also addressed the need to combat cybercrime. Listen to Lisa’s interview. MORE
Another great Business Practice Exchange session was held early this month, this time in Annapolis hosted by the Maryland State Archives. Efforts related to the SERI initiative wove themselves throughout the meeting as talks of self assessments turned toward education and program planning. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives talked about their ISO/TRAC test -audit and then shared the platform with us on discussing ways to lower the barrier in preserving electronic records. MORE
A highlight of TED this year was watching my pal Rob Reid do a short talk on the math of those who claim piracy is killing the content business. It’s short, it’s really funny, and it’s a prequel of sorts for Rob’s wonderful new comic novel, which comes out in May. Very worth watching: Random, But Interesting funny piracy rob reid MORE
I think 2012 is the year we all start to question the role corporations can and should play in our society, and doing so won’t (or shouldn’t) be seen as an indication of some leftist or political agenda, but rather as a reasonable outgrowth of how a thinking person sorts through the solution of some of our most pressing problems. But I’m not arguing it will in 2012. Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. MORE
And 2012 will be the year this becomes readily apparent. In short: In 2012, every Big Five Internet company will need to have a clear Twitter strategy. It’ll do more with Twitter in 2012, to be sure. In 2012, every Big Five player is going to have to reckon (again) with Twitter. I’m predicting 2012 is the year Google and Facebook come around and work with Twitter in some new, significant way, as will Amazon. MORE
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Another year has passed and Step Two have released their annual intranet award winners. Its always interesting to poke around the list of companies. An Elgg-based solution wins again. Mitre won an award from Step Two in 2010 for its Elgg-based employee network. This year, Pleio, a customised version of Elgg developed by the Dutch government , also won an award. Pleio: A social network for Dutch government on Prezi. MORE
2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. I’ve spent the past few weeks jotting down thoughts for 2012, and hope to do the Year That Is About To Be justice in the following set of posts. And this will become a major part of Twitter’s work in 2012; work that, to my point, is the work of a media company. MORE
Expect my predictions, and round up of how I did in 2012 , in the coming week or two. The post Retargeting Is Just Phase One appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Toward the end of the year, annual predictions come out (I’ve been guilty of this for nearly ten years now). MORE
The post With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. For example, here are some of the top searches for Saudi Arabia, translated (roughly I am sure) by the Google Translate service: Student outcomes Arab Idol insurance Ramadan Series 2012 Mohamed Morsi explosion Riyadh Burma Free Syrian Army Shura Council tornado Sandy. The post With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. MORE
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech. My next post will summarize all my 2012 predictions, so there’s one neat URL to refer to for future reference. Have a great 2012! Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. MORE
March 7-9, 2012. Join us at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., Hunton & Williams privacy professionals will be featured speakers in the following sessions: Mending Fences after a Breach. Thursday, March 8, 12:15 p.m. Speakers include: Lisa J. MORE
Related: Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year. If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. And if we lose the web, well, we lose more than funny cat videos and occasionally brilliant blog posts. MORE
This is a list of speakers at Connected Enterprise 2012 who are on Twitter: Brent Lello. Brian Solis. Cory Banks. Cuneyt Uysal. Dev Mookerjee. Erin Grotts. Jacob Morgan. James Dellow <- me! Jeffrey Tobias. Lincoln De Kalb. Mike Handes. Paul Miller. Rob Livingstone. Ross Dawson. Ross Hill. Shawn Callahan. Steve Hopkins. Thierry de Baillon. BTW I'm not sure if we have a hash tag for the event, but I've suggested #cemelb12. MORE
55 On February 14, 2012, a joint U.S. congressional committee, including Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (the “Act”). MORE
( image ) Here’s a short overview of Google’s past few months: It’s angered policymakers and pundits with a sweeping change to its privacy settings. It’s taken a beating for favoring its own properties in its core search results. It’s been caught with its hands in Apple’s cookie jar , and despite the fact Facebook and others previously condoned the practice , it was savaged for doing so. It’s continuing to fight an expensive and uncertain patent war. MORE
On April 19, 2012, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) issued a press release detailing its enforcement agenda for 2012. In a report adopted March 29, 2012, the CNIL announced that it will conduct 450 on-site inspections this year, with particular focus on the specific themes described below. MORE
I'm really pleased that in a few weeks time I'm going to be back in Melbourne again, participating in the following events: Connected Enterprise 2012 - 21-22 Nov. You might have noticed that I've been presenting a fair bit these recent weeks about enterprise social software - I'm been completing a short roadshow with Dimension Data ( we are in Brisbane this Friday ) and last week I had a lot of fun presenting along side Mark Oehlert at Socialtext 's Enterprise Social Summit. MORE
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Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network. I’m already worried they’ll do it in early 2013 and make a fool of me… Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year. Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A. 2012 may well be the biggest year of all for Internet M&A. MORE
From it: Spring of 2012 was when bloggers, non-profits, indie bands, George Takei, community theaters, photographers, caterers, artists, mega-churches, high schools, tee-shirt vendors, campus coffee shops, art galleries, museums, charities, food trucks, and a near infinite variety of organizations; individuals from all walks of life; and businesses, both large and small, began to detect—for it was almost imperceptible at first—that the volume was getting turned down on their Facebook reach. MORE
The post For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image ) Wow. That’s about the sum of my initial reaction to this story from ATD: Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS. The wow isn’t that Microsoft is trying to reduce the 30% cut Apple takes on every dollar that flows through the iOS ecosystem. That’s to be expected, though I very much doubt it will happen. MORE
The post As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image ) There’s a hubbub in the press this week about Google employing a “ Double Irish – Dutch Sandwich ” tactic to funnel profits from Europe over to Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax. Reuters reports that the company saved around $2 billion in taxes by employing the structure, which, as far as I can tell, is perfectly legal. MORE
Waaaay back in January, I rolled out my annual predictions. Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. I may have to start doing these things monthly, given the pace of our industry. Prediction #5 was that it’d be a big year for Internet M&A. I further singled out Instagram as a company that would likely be bought, and figured there’d be a battle between Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google for the prize. MORE
End of Mainstream Support for Dynamics AX 2009 and AX 2012. Microsoft is ending the mainstream support for Dynamics AX 2009, AX 2012 FP and R2 on October 9th, 2018. Dynamics AX 2012. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R2. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R3. –. Dynamics AX 2012. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R2. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R3. –. Yes, you can still add user licenses to both Dynamics AX 2009 and Dynamics AX 2012. MORE
"It's time for the implementation Of new auto-classification," Say Redgrave & Kahn, "You have to get on Before the train has left the station." The twentieth-year M-E-R Was typically better than par With cues from Chuck Norris We all sang the chorus Of chucking our junk very far MORE
Hence my fifth prediction for 2012: Expect Internet M&A to heat up , big time. Perhaps, but I think it’ll be in play in 2012. Suffice to say, I predict 2012 is going to be a banner year for tech and Internet M&A. Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network. MORE
2012 Related Topics John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 9, 2012
Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network. I’m already worried they’ll do it in early 2013 and make a fool of me… Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year. Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A. 2012 may well be the biggest year of all for Internet M&A.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2012
2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. I’ve spent the past few weeks jotting down thoughts for 2012, and hope to do the Year That Is About To Be justice in the following set of posts. And this will become a major part of Twitter’s work in 2012; work that, to my point, is the work of a media company.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 9, 2012
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech. My next post will summarize all my 2012 predictions, so there’s one neat URL to refer to for future reference. Have a great 2012! Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2012
I predict that line will change in 2012. Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. For my third prediction of the year, I’m going with one just a tad bit less obvious than “Facebook will go public.”
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2012
By some Mayan accounts, 2012 is not going to be a good year for any of us. It all adds up to a massive challenge that I think will come to a head in 2012. In short, it will be a massive challenge to manage this business to scale and succcess in 2012. Or GoogleTV (and by some extension, YouTube): Probably the poster child for “not market ready,” GoogleTV now has very high expectations for 2012, thanks to Chairman Schmidt’s recent comments.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 13, 2012
The post With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. For example, here are some of the top searches for Saudi Arabia, translated (roughly I am sure) by the Google Translate service: Student outcomes Arab Idol insurance Ramadan Series 2012 Mohamed Morsi explosion Riyadh Burma Free Syrian Army Shura Council tornado Sandy. The post With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 9, 2012
I think 2012 is the year we all start to question the role corporations can and should play in our society, and doing so won’t (or shouldn’t) be seen as an indication of some leftist or political agenda, but rather as a reasonable outgrowth of how a thinking person sorts through the solution of some of our most pressing problems. But I’m not arguing it will in 2012. Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 5, 2012
Hence my fifth prediction for 2012: Expect Internet M&A to heat up , big time. Perhaps, but I think it’ll be in play in 2012. Suffice to say, I predict 2012 is going to be a banner year for tech and Internet M&A. Related: Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network.
Positively RIM
MAY 23, 2012
"It's time for the implementation Of new auto-classification," Say Redgrave & Kahn, "You have to get on Before the train has left the station." The twentieth-year M-E-R Was typically better than par With cues from Chuck Norris We all sang the chorus Of chucking our junk very far
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2012
And 2012 will be the year this becomes readily apparent. In short: In 2012, every Big Five Internet company will need to have a clear Twitter strategy. It’ll do more with Twitter in 2012, to be sure. In 2012, every Big Five player is going to have to reckon (again) with Twitter. I’m predicting 2012 is the year Google and Facebook come around and work with Twitter in some new, significant way, as will Amazon.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
million settlement with a Massachusetts-based healthcare organization that reported five small health data breaches in 2012 involving lost or stolen unencrypted computing devices Fresenius Medical Care North America Agrees to HIPAA Settlement In one of the largest HIPAA settlements ever, federal regulators have signed a $3.5
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John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 9, 2012
Waaaay back in January, I rolled out my annual predictions. Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. I may have to start doing these things monthly, given the pace of our industry. Prediction #5 was that it’d be a big year for Internet M&A. I further singled out Instagram as a company that would likely be bought, and figured there’d be a battle between Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google for the prize.
Cllax
DECEMBER 20, 2020
The main application is based on JBOSS with MSSQL 2012 as the backend database. The post Vagrant, Ansible and Windows 2012 first appeared on Cllax - Top of IT. As part of helping the developers I’m putting together a vagrant VMWare Workstation environment.
ChiefTech
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Another year has passed and Step Two have released their annual intranet award winners. Its always interesting to poke around the list of companies. An Elgg-based solution wins again. Mitre won an award from Step Two in 2010 for its Elgg-based employee network. This year, Pleio, a customised version of Elgg developed by the Dutch government , also won an award. Pleio: A social network for Dutch government on Prezi.
Ascent Innovations
OCTOBER 2, 2018
End of Mainstream Support for Dynamics AX 2009 and AX 2012. Microsoft is ending the mainstream support for Dynamics AX 2009, AX 2012 FP and R2 on October 9th, 2018. Dynamics AX 2012. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R2. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R3. –. Dynamics AX 2012. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R2. –. Dynamics AX 2012 R3. –. Yes, you can still add user licenses to both Dynamics AX 2009 and Dynamics AX 2012.
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
This is a list of speakers at Connected Enterprise 2012 who are on Twitter: Brent Lello. Brian Solis. Cory Banks. Cuneyt Uysal. Dev Mookerjee. Erin Grotts. Jacob Morgan. James Dellow <- me! Jeffrey Tobias. Lincoln De Kalb. Mike Handes. Paul Miller. Rob Livingstone. Ross Dawson. Ross Hill. Shawn Callahan. Steve Hopkins. Thierry de Baillon. BTW I'm not sure if we have a hash tag for the event, but I've suggested #cemelb12.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 6, 2012
March 7-9, 2012. Join us at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., Hunton & Williams privacy professionals will be featured speakers in the following sessions: Mending Fences after a Breach. Thursday, March 8, 12:15 p.m. Speakers include: Lisa J.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 31, 2011
I’ve been quiet on Searchblog for most of the holidays, but I don’t expect that to continue in 2012. I’ve been on vacation these past few days and it’s given me a fair amount of time to reflect on the past year, as well as on what’s to come for 2012. This will be the year of focusing on just two things: Federated Media, and The Book. Both will drive a lot of thinking, writing, and dialog on this site.
Preservica
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Another great Business Practice Exchange session was held early this month, this time in Annapolis hosted by the Maryland State Archives. Efforts related to the SERI initiative wove themselves throughout the meeting as talks of self assessments turned toward education and program planning. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives talked about their ISO/TRAC test -audit and then shared the platform with us on discussing ways to lower the barrier in preserving electronic records.
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 18, 2012
On December 10, 2012, Tom Field of HealthcareInfoSecurity interviewed Lisa J. Discussing the top legal issues in 2012, Lisa said that data breaches remain at the top of the list, with an increase in malicious cyberattacks. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP. She also addressed the need to combat cybercrime. Listen to Lisa’s interview.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
On February 14, 2012, a joint U.S. congressional committee, including Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (the “Act”).
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
From it: Spring of 2012 was when bloggers, non-profits, indie bands, George Takei, community theaters, photographers, caterers, artists, mega-churches, high schools, tee-shirt vendors, campus coffee shops, art galleries, museums, charities, food trucks, and a near infinite variety of organizations; individuals from all walks of life; and businesses, both large and small, began to detect—for it was almost imperceptible at first—that the volume was getting turned down on their Facebook reach.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 21, 2012
Expect my predictions, and round up of how I did in 2012 , in the coming week or two. The post Retargeting Is Just Phase One appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Toward the end of the year, annual predictions come out (I’ve been guilty of this for nearly ten years now).
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2012
The post As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image ) There’s a hubbub in the press this week about Google employing a “ Double Irish – Dutch Sandwich ” tactic to funnel profits from Europe over to Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax. Reuters reports that the company saved around $2 billion in taxes by employing the structure, which, as far as I can tell, is perfectly legal.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
The post Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back. Till now. I’m not saying I’m switching, but I sure am open to a better solution.
ChiefTech
OCTOBER 30, 2012
I'm really pleased that in a few weeks time I'm going to be back in Melbourne again, participating in the following events: Connected Enterprise 2012 - 21-22 Nov. You might have noticed that I've been presenting a fair bit these recent weeks about enterprise social software - I'm been completing a short roadshow with Dimension Data ( we are in Brisbane this Friday ) and last week I had a lot of fun presenting along side Mark Oehlert at Socialtext 's Enterprise Social Summit.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
On November 13-15, 2012, delegates at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels were given insight into how discussions with key policymakers are progressing. As European Parliament rapporteur and Member of the European Parliament Jan Philipp Albrecht aims to finalize the reform of the EU Data Protection Directive by the end of the current European Parliament’s mandate in 2014, this ambitious goal faces numerous hurdles.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Related: Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year. If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. And if we lose the web, well, we lose more than funny cat videos and occasionally brilliant blog posts.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
The post The Facebook Ad Network Is Here appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s been a pretty good year for my annual predictions , I must say. A few months ago I did my “ how’ve I done so far this year ” post, and found myself batting about.500. Yesterday Facebook pushed up my average with the announcement that it’s begun testing a mobile ad network.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 25, 2012
On April 19, 2012, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) issued a press release detailing its enforcement agenda for 2012. In a report adopted March 29, 2012, the CNIL announced that it will conduct 450 on-site inspections this year, with particular focus on the specific themes described below.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2012
The post For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. image ) Wow. That’s about the sum of my initial reaction to this story from ATD: Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS. The wow isn’t that Microsoft is trying to reduce the 30% cut Apple takes on every dollar that flows through the iOS ecosystem. That’s to be expected, though I very much doubt it will happen.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 6, 2012
( image ) Here’s a short overview of Google’s past few months: It’s angered policymakers and pundits with a sweeping change to its privacy settings. It’s taken a beating for favoring its own properties in its core search results. It’s been caught with its hands in Apple’s cookie jar , and despite the fact Facebook and others previously condoned the practice , it was savaged for doing so. It’s continuing to fight an expensive and uncertain patent war.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
The post Post Apple Rant, What Have We Learned? A Visit With A “Genius” Ain’t Enough appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I think I’ve said it before, if you want to attract attention, write about Apple.
ChiefTech
MAY 15, 2012
via youtube.com. Dion Hinchcliffe is visting Australia this week to promote his new book, Social Business by Design , co-authored with Peter Kim. The Headshift Asia Pacific team have been busy lining up speaking events and media interviews all week, however Dion and I have found time to put together a short whitepaper on the state of social business in Australia. This paper provides that all important Australian perspective on the trends and ideas outlines in Dion's book.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
The news alert from the Wall St. Journal hit my phone about an hour ago, pulling me away from tasting “ Texas Bourbon ” in San Antonio to sit down and grok this headline: Google’s iPhone Tracking. Now, the headline certainly is attention-grabbing, but the news alert email had a more sinister headline: “Google Circumvented Web-Privacy Safeguards.” ” Wow! What’s going on here?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 22, 2012
Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross , Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). Talk naturally turned to the implications of Google’s controversial integration of Google+ into its search results – a move that must both terrify (OMG, Google is gunning for us!) as well as delight (Holy cow, Google is breaking its core promise to its users!).
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 15, 2012
A highlight of TED this year was watching my pal Rob Reid do a short talk on the math of those who claim piracy is killing the content business. It’s short, it’s really funny, and it’s a prequel of sorts for Rob’s wonderful new comic novel, which comes out in May. Very worth watching: Random, But Interesting funny piracy rob reid
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
I’m going to add another Saturday morning sketch to this site, and offer a caveat to you all: I’ve not bounced this idea off many folks, and the seed of it comes from a source who is unreservedly biased about all this. But I thought this worth airing out, so here you have it. Given that Google+ results are dominating so many SERPs these days, Google is clearly leveraging its power in search to build up Google+.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 10, 2012
Perusing my feeds today, I saw this post from Google’s blog: Search, plus Your World. In the post, Google extols the virtues of incorporating results such as “your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 19, 2012
( image ) Earlier this week I ventured down to the Silicon Valley from my lair on the side of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin. Those of you who have visited Marin might understand why for me, after more than 25 years of working across the bridge in San Francisco and on planes around the world, I find it rather pleasant to just stay in my office and Think Big Thoughts whenever possible.
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