June, 2011

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Web 2 Map: The Data Layer - Visualizing the Big Players in the Internet Economy

John Battelle's Searchblog

As I wrote last month , I'm working with a team of folks to redesign the Web 2 Points of Control map along the lines of this year's theme: " The Data Frame." In the past few weeks I've been talking to scores of interesting people, including CEOs of data-driven start ups (TrialPay and Corda, for example), academics in the public dataspace, policy folks, and VCs.

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Sea of cubicles - today's enterprise

Collaboration 2.0

On the eve of the main Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference, it’s worth taking a look at the state of the enterprise. Despite being up to my eyeballs in collaboration strategy behind the firewall inside large companies this year I strive to stay objective and to avoid failing to see the wood for the trees. It’s all [.

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CitySourced Presents at Cityworks User Conference Plenary 2011

Daradiction

Check out this short video of CitySourced Co-Founder Kurt Daradics presenting at the Cityworks 2011 User Conference in St. George, UT.

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FCC-FTC Forum Highlights the Benefits and Risks of Advances in Location-Based Services

Hunton Privacy

On June 28, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission convened a public education forum entitled “ Helping Consumers Harness the Potential of Location-Based Services.” Representatives of telecommunications carriers, technology companies and consumer advocacy organizations discussed technological developments and how best to realize the benefits of location-based services without compromising privacy.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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I'm an AIIM SharePoint Specialist!

JKevinParker

I just took the AIIM SharePoint Master exam, which combines the exams for SharePoint Practitioner and SharePoint Specialist. After passing the exam, I was awarded the designation "AIIM SharePoint Specialist.". To move from SharePoint Specialist to SharePoint Master, I need to complete my Master project and submit it for review. When that has been approved, I will be an AIIM SharePoint Master!

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We (Will) Live In A Small Big Town

John Battelle's Searchblog

Earlier today I moderated a panel at an energetic and well-attended event called the " Newfront ," produced by Digitas, an innovative agency which counts American Express, Kraft, P&G, and GM as clients. I say energetic because it was highly produced and very considered (and this from a guy who carefully produces live events for a living, among other things).

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Enterprise 2.0: The business world is all about beating your competitors.

Collaboration 2.0

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference moved venue this year to the huge Hynes Conference Center in the heart of Boston, as befits the central role the movement’s thinking and technologies is now playing in the enterprise world, particularly in marketing messaging. From a technology vendor perspective improving user interface look and feel and incorporating 2.0 web components [.

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LimMERicks

Positively RIM

Last month, I traveled to Chicago for Cohasset Associates' 19th Managing Electronic Records conference: MER. It focused on getting rid of "Stuff", especially the legal implications thereof. "Stuff" represented the unneeded, outdated, and useless information that many organizations keep to their detriment. While most people use MER as an acronym, the organizers prefer to regard the letters as initials, spelling it out.

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Council of Europe Considers Amendments to Convention 108

Hunton Privacy

On June 28-30, 2011, the Council of Europe’s Bureau of the Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Automatic Processing of Personal Data (known as the “T-PD-Bureau”) met in Strasbourg, France, to discuss, among other things, amending the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Convention 108, which underlies the European Union’s legal framework for data protection, is the only legally-binding international convention that addresses data protecti

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Shame on Citigroup's Web Apps Team

JKevinParker

This week, details came out about how identity thieves captured information for around 200,000 Citigroup customers' information. According to the New York Times article and many articles that reference it, "The case illustrates the threat posed by the rising demand for private financial information from the world of foreign hackers.". Wrong. This case illustrates the threat posed by total negligence and/or ignorance of your Web Apps and Security teams and flaws in your internal quality assurance

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CitySourced Presents at Cityworks User Conference Plenary 2011

Daradiction

Check out this short video of CitySourced Co-Founder Kurt Daradics presenting at the Cityworks 2011 User Conference in St. George, UT.

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Google's Neal Mohan: A $200 Billion Opportunity

John Battelle's Searchblog

Several years ago, Google's top executives clearly realized they needed to create growth engines beyond search. As they looked for new opportunities, two stood out: first, the shift from the PC web to mobile, and second, the rise of "intelligent display" - advertising that works at the brand level, and not just lead-generation and demand fulfillment, which is where search has always ruled.

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Application Programming Tip: Let DB2 do the Work for You

Robert's Db2

Back in the 1980s, when DB2 was relatively new, you had, of course, a lot of application developers who were learning how to program using SQL (IBM invented the relational database and Structured Query Language). Though SQL is pretty intuitive, mastery takes time and so it was understandable that some programmers early on did in their code things that would more effectively be done by DB2.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Reimagining Yahoo!: Chief Product Officer Blake Irving

John Battelle's Searchblog

Yahoo! It's our industry's favorite puzzle. On the one hand, it's one of the largest sites on the web, on the same size and scale as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. On the other hand, it's not growing very quickly, revenues are flat, and investors have been calling for CEO Carol Bartz's head with increasing regularity. The company has failed to find a "hit" that redefines its value proposition in a world driven by hits like Twitter, Foursquare, and Flipboard.

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Facebook's Carolyn Everson: “We’re one percent done on our ad products.”

John Battelle's Searchblog

When Facebook announced it had convinced Carolyn Everson to leave Microsoft to head sales at the pre-IPO social networking giant, a few eyebrows lifted: Everson had only been at Microsoft for nine months, and was recruited there by CEO Steve Ballmer after he watched her work to integrate an important deal between Microsoft and MTV, where she previously worked.

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Visa CMO Antonio Lucio: Our Business Is Digital, Period

John Battelle's Searchblog

If you Google "Antonio Lucio CMO Visa", as I did in preparation for my conversation with him next week at CM Summit, the first several links which show up are headlined : " Google Hater - Visa CMO Antonio Lucio Slams Giant.". The headline isn't really reflective of Lucio's views on Google, but there you have it. For most casual observers, Lucio is a firebrand calling out the largest force in digital marketing today.

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The in.imit.able will.i.am: Embracing Brand As An Artist

John Battelle's Searchblog

Next week will mark the third time in one year that I've interviewed Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am on stage, and each time it's gotten better. If you're coming to CM Summit , you're in for a treat. Will is in New York for a benefit concert in Central Park , and he's stopping by to chat with us along the way. I've found will.i.am to be a rare bird - a massively successful commercial artist who embraces brands and marketing as part of his work, instead of a distraction from his work.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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My, My, Time Does Fly

John Battelle's Searchblog

Over at the Federated Media site, I've posted an appreciation of the company I started in a garage six years ago this week. FM came about because of my work on my first book - it was through the study of search's impact on media and markets that I came up with the idea in the first place. Which means, in a pretty direct way, it was attributable in part to the musings here on Searchblog, and to your responses to those musings.

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Key Highlights from Rockefeller’s Hearing on Privacy and Data Security

Hunton Privacy

On June 29, 2011, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation convened a hearing entitled “Privacy and Data Security: Protecting Consumers in the Online World.” In opening remarks , Committee Chair Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) highlighted that the hearing would consider both privacy and data security and discussed three bills focused on these issues.

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Use of Facial Recognition Technology Raises Privacy Concerns

Hunton Privacy

Recent developments involving the use of facial recognition technology have raised privacy concerns in the United States, Europe and Canada. As we reported earlier this month , the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) and several other consumer privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Facebook for its use of facial recognition technology.

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Commerce Department Shares Guidance on Mexico’s New Data Protection Law

Hunton Privacy

On June 24, 2011, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration released a PowerPoint presentation on Mexico’s new private sector data protection law that was shared at a meeting of the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy by Mexico’s Ministry of Economy and Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (“IFAI”).

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont Prescriber Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

On June 23, 2011, in a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in IMS Health Inc. v. Sorrell that a Vermont law prohibiting the sale of prescriber-identifiable data to drug companies was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment right to free speech. Thomas Julin, a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, represented IMS Health in this case.

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Malaysia to Establish New Government Department for Personal Data Protection

Hunton Privacy

On June 20, 2011, Malaysia’s Bernama News Agency reported that the Malaysian Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture will establish a government department to facilitate the implementation of Malaysia’s new Personal Data Protection Act. Malaysia passed the Personal Data Protection Act in 2010, but the law has yet to go into effect. According to the report, enforcement of the Act is scheduled for early next year.

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EU Commissioner Reding Signals Intention to Introduce Mandatory Data Breach Notification

Hunton Privacy

Speaking at the British Bankers’ Association’s Data Protection and Privacy Conference in London on June 20, 2011, Viviane Reding, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, signaled her intention to streamline data protection to “simplify the regulatory environment” and “substantially reduce the administrative burden” for businesses.

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Update: NLRB Continues to Closely Probe Employer Terminations Following Employee Complaints on Social Media

Hunton Privacy

As reported in Hunton & Williams’ Employment & Labor Perspectives blog, two unfair labor practice complaints recently issued by National Labor Relations Board regional offices in Buffalo and Chicago illustrate how closely the NLRB is scrutinizing employers’ termination decisions that are allegedly related to statements employees made on social media.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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European Data Protection Supervisor Publishes 2010 Annual Report; Sets Agenda for the Future

Hunton Privacy

On June 15, 2011, European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) Peter Hustinx gave a press conference to present his annual report for 2010. The annual report provides an overview of the EDPS’ main activities in 2010 and sets forth key priorities and challenges for the future. In his speech, Hustinx focused primarily on the review of the EU data protection framework and the Data Retention Directive.

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Live Coverage from Budapest: Day Two of the Hungarian International Data Protection Conference

Hunton Privacy

As reported yesterday , on June 16 and 17, 2011, the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union hosted a high-level international data protection conference in Budapest. The following are some highlights from the second day’s events: During the “New principles in the field” panel, Professor Paul De Hert of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel gave an explanation of the case I v.

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Representative Mary Bono Mack Releases Discussion Draft of the SAFE Data Act

Hunton Privacy

On June 13, 2011, Representative Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) released a discussion draft of the Secure and Fortify Data Act (the “SAFE Data Act”), which is designed to “protect consumers by requiring reasonable security policies and procedures to protect data containing personal information, and to provide for nationwide notice in the event of a security breach.