John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 28, 2013
'The post Want to See How Detroit Is Coming Back? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Tonight I checked into my hotel room in Chicago as part of my regular cadence of visiting FM’s offices around the country. I flipped on the TV and the local news featured a dismal report about Detroit’s suburbs. The copy of Time magazine I had in my bag, same thing: Detroit Goes Bust.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 5, 2013
'Theoretical knowledge still largely dominates strategic thinking about the social web over practical experience, which has resulted in succession and long term planning issues as business use matures'
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 4, 2013
'Knowledge management (KM) is all about the people, right. Actually, its a little more complicated than that. Last year, Nancy Dixon presented what I think is one of the best overviews of the state of knowledge management today, where she explains the 3 eras of knowledge management : She describes the 3rd era of knowledge management as being focused on using collective knowledge to: Address complex issues.
Robert's Db2
AUGUST 30, 2013
In my DB2 for z/OS-related work over the past 25 years, I've done a lot in the way of performance analysis, looking at individual queries and at DB2-accessing application programs (both transactional and batch in nature). Time and time again, sometimes in reviewing trend data and sometimes in examining DB2 monitor output to gauge the impact of performance tuning actions, I've seen that the CPU time consumed in SQL statement execution rises or falls with the associated level of GETPAGE activity (
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Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 30, 2013
As reported by Bloomberg BNA , the South African Parliament passed the Protection of Personal Information Bill on August 22, 2013. The bill, which was sent to President Jacob Zuma to be signed into law, represents South Africa’s first comprehensive data protection legislation. The Protection of Personal Information Bill sets forth several measures to protect personal data, including: Establishing an Information Protection Regulator with investigatory and enforcement powers.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 18, 2013
'The post Thoughts on Ford’s OpenXC: In The Future, Brands With Open Data Will Win appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I spent today at the first-ever Boing Boing Ingenuity , a two-day hackathon cum “vaudeville show” – truly Boing Boing brought to life. It made me so proud to see the essence of conversational marketing at work – a major brand adding deep value to a community, an independent publisher realizing its dream of celebrating its voice and community through a uniq
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 5, 2013
'Theoretical knowledge still largely dominates strategic thinking about the social web over practical experience, which has resulted in succession and long term planning issues as business use matures'
ChiefTech
AUGUST 1, 2013
'I''m going to be in Melbourne for a few days next week and thought it would be good to organise a coffee morning. We''ll be talking about everything from social intranets and knowledge management to government 2.0 and social innovation. Come along to chat and catch up. When : Tuesday 6th August, 8am to 9.30am. Where : Jasper Kitchen at the Jasper Hotel , 489 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000.
Robert's Db2
AUGUST 9, 2013
The DB2 for z/OS Distributed Data Facility (DDF), the component of DB2 that provides data services for network-attached client applications, is not a new kid on the block -- it's been around for more than two decades. In recent years, however, DDF has gained in importance for many organizations as client-server activity has grown as a percentage of the overall DB2 workload (in a blog entry posted a couple of years ago, I wrote about a way in which a DB2 monitor accounting report can be used to d
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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 30, 2013
On August 29, 2013, the FTC announced that it had filed a complaint against LabMD, Inc. (“LabMD”) for failing to protect consumers’ personal data. According to the complaint, LabMD, which performs various laboratory tests for consumers, exposed the personal information of more than 9,000 consumers on a peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file-sharing network. Specifically, a LabMD spreadsheet that was found on the P2P network contained names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, health insurance informatio
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 22, 2013
'The post Is US Culture Veering Toward The Dark and Deadpan? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) According to Wikipedia , “deadpan” is a uniquely American neologism less than a century old. The term arose from the slang term “pan,” for face: “Keep a dead pan,” a gangster told an associate in 1934′s The Gay Bride.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 5, 2013
'The post Four Minutes on the Future of Marketing appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Earlier this year I sat down with a videographer at the Bazaarvoice Summit in Austin. He asked me about the future of marketing, in particular as it related to data and consumer behavior. Given what I announced earlier this morning, I thought you might find this short video worth a view.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 13, 2013
'The post The debut of “else”: Surveillance Everywhere and the Technological Wild West appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. As we’re working on the book , Sara and I are planning on sharing some of the news items and blog posts that catch our attention each week. We’ll also plan on talking through some of the things we’re reading and working on in this space.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 26, 2013
'The post else 8.26: Getting a Little Too Comfortable with Technology appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week in the else round up we explore the responsibilities of technology builders and designers, what it will take for 3D printers and autonomous vehicles to go mainstream, and how humans will always find ways to misuse technology.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 5, 2013
'The post Great Content, Meet Great Targeting (And Reach) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Today on the Federated site , I’ve posted a preview of something we’re working on for a Fall release. I’m cross posting a portion of it here, as I know many of you are interested in media and data-driven marketing. It’s no secret that Federated Media has deep roots in content marketing: We re-imagined CM for the modern web eight years ago, and since then have exec
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 15, 2013
'The post “Peanut Butter Cup Marketing” In A Few Minutes appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I had a chance to stop by Bloomberg TV yesterday to talk about “ content reachtargeting ” and the larger secular trends driving digital marketing today. Here’s the video: The post “Peanut Butter Cup Marketing” In A Few Minutes appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.
ChiefTech
AUGUST 19, 2013
'Its no surprise that a story about Activity Based Working (ABW) appeared in Fairfax newspaper''s IT section - after all, ABW is underpinned by the right information technology. In this instance, the Australian federal Department of Human Services (DHS) will trial ABW with 110 staff in a Canberra office. A range of supporting technologies will be deployed that include a practical mix of wireless networking, follow-me printing and voice-over internet protocol (VoIP).
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 16, 2013
'What do you get when you combined Microsoft Kinect for Windows, Windows 8 and a data projector? Ubi Interactive ''s software allows you to turn just about any surface into a multi-touch display: From the Ubi Interactive site: "Can I use any surface? Yes, you can- as long as the surface is visible to the depth sensor camera in the Kinect. You may want to make sure that the surface is neither too absorptive (such as some of the Plasma screens) nor reflective (such as some glass material).
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 29, 2013
On August 26, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a settlement with Facebook, Inc., related to the company’s alleged misappropriation of certain Facebook members’ personal information, such as names and profile pictures, that was then used in ads to promote products and services via Facebook’s “Sponsored Stories” program.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 29, 2013
On August 28, 2013, the Obama Administration issued several documents relating to the Cybersecurity Framework that the President called for in Executive Order 13636: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The documents include: Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (Discussion Draft) ; Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework: Illustrative Examples (Discussion Draft) ; Message to Senior Executives on the Cybersecurity Framework (Discussion Draft) ; and.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 28, 2013
On August 28, 2013, on the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (“ICO’s”) blog, Simon Rice, Technology Group Manager for the ICO, discussed the importance of encryption as a data security measure. He stated that storing any personal information is “inherently risky” but encryption can be a “simple and effective means” to safeguard personal information and reduce the risk of security breaches.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 27, 2013
As always, the privacy team at Hunton & Williams continues to closely monitor the latest global developments in data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, including progress on the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation. To keep you informed, we will be hosting regular, 30-minute webcasts to provide brief updates on the most pressing issues.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 27, 2013
On August 22, 2013, Hunton & Williams partner Paul M. Tiao was featured on CNBC’s Fast Money discussing NASDAQ’s recent crash. In the feature, “Are markets ready for cyber threats?”, Tiao talked about the steps the financial services industry has taken to protect against significant cybersecurity incidents, including “putting in best-of-breed information security policies” and “working across the industry to share information in a way that many other industries are not.”.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 23, 2013
This week a new breach notification regulation takes effect across the EU. The Regulation on the measures applicable to the notification of personal data breaches under Directive 2002/58/EC (the “Regulation”) specifies the technical measures of how Internet service providers, telecommunications providers and other public electronic communications service (“ECS”) providers must notify of data breaches.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 22, 2013
On August 1, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota denied a criminal defendant’s motion to suppress, holding that the defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in computer files he shared on a peer-to-peer network. In U.S. v. Hoffman , police used a software program to monitor multiple peer-to-peer networks for IP addresses that investigators had previously identified as possibly associated with child pornography.
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Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 20, 2013
On August 15, 2013 the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Certegy Check Services, Inc. (“Certegy”) stemming from allegations that Certegy violated various provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The settlement agreement includes a $3.5 million civil penalty for “knowing violations … that constituted a pattern or practice of violations.”.
ChiefTech
AUGUST 19, 2013
'"The phrase ‘digital disruption’ is quite a misnomer because no technology truly disrupts unless it disrupts what we do and how we do it, not just what we do it with. This then begs the question: Is technology disrupting us or are we disrupting with technology?". Cross-posted from the DISRUPT.SYDNEY and Ripple Effect Group blogs.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 16, 2013
On August 15, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking public comment regarding a proposed mechanism to obtain verifiable parental consent in accordance with the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”) that came into effect July 1, 2013. The COPPA Rule requires operators of certain websites and online services to obtain a parent’s consent before collecting personal information online from a child under 13.
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