John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 30, 2014
'The post “Facebook Is a Weatherless World” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ). This quote, from a piece in Motherboard , hit me straight between the eyeballs: Facebook…will not let you unFacebook Facebook. It is impossible to discover something in its feeds that isn’t algorithmically tailored to your eyeball.
Daradiction
AUGUST 17, 2014
'Hearing the news about Robin Wililams' death this past week hit me like a dump truck. It felt like losing a family member. I grew up watching "Mork & Mindy" and remember as a kid being so amused by his "nanu nanu's", and inspired by other characters that he played over the years like Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poet's Society, and Good Will Hunting.
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Robert's Db2
AUGUST 29, 2014
I recently received an interesting message from a mainframe DB2 person I've known for a long time. At his DB2 10 for z/OS site, 1 MB page frames had recently been made available on the System z servers, and my friend moved to leverage this resource via page-fixed DB2 buffer pools. Nothing unusual there. What's interesting is the information he saw in the output of -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL commands subsequently entered for the page-fixed pools.
Elie
AUGUST 13, 2014
In-depth research publications, industry talks and blog posts about Google security, research at Google and cybersecurity in general in open-access.
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.
Interactive Information Management
AUGUST 7, 2014
News reports and incidents regarding issues with reliance on cellphones for event, incident or other monitoring and operations activities requiring mobile communications continues to surface. In this context, those responsible for finding, purchasing and using critical hand-held communications devices are maintaining their use of advanced hand-held radios - including the extremely popular and durable Motorola CP200 handheld radio. ( This is a noteworthy industry perspective, from a KME client pa
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John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 14, 2014
'The post My 2014 NewCo SF Schedule: Hard Choices appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. As I did last year, I picked my NewCo San Francisco schedule early, so I could prepare in advance of the festival this September 10-12. There are nearly 130 extraordinary companies to choose from, so it’s not easy to decide where to spend your time.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 18, 2014
'The post Why I’m Watching Deep Linking In Mobile appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The first ever web page, created by Sir Tim Berners Lee to explain, naturally, the WWW. We are at a turning point in the mobile app ecosystem where deeplinking is becoming a priority and not just a feature. – URX blog. This week marks the beginning of a journey I’m taking to understand “deep linking” in mobile.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 25, 2014
'The post AdTech Is Alive and Well: I’ll Have the Full Stack, Please appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Reading The Information’s piece on Facebook’s reported re-introduction of the Atlas ad-serving technology , I wondered – Does the market really need six or more full stack adtech solutions? Google is the undisputed leader in the field – it’s spent nearly ten years stitching its own technology into acquisitions like DoubleClick (the original
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 25, 2014
'The post NewCo New York 2014: My Chairman’s Picks To Visit appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last week I created my schedule for NewCo San Francisco, and wrote about them here. What many folks don’t know is that there are now nine confirmed NewCo festivals around the world. Three weeks after San Francsico, nearly 100 New York companies will be opening their doors and welcoming festival goers in our second annual NewCo New York, Sept. 30th-Oct. 2nd.
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Robert's Db2
AUGUST 25, 2014
The answer to the question in the title of this post is, "No, it can't -- unless it can." How's that for a hook? OK, a little background. A DBAT is a database access thread. It's the kind of thread that a network-attached application process uses to interact with a DB2 for z/OS system (such a process, also referred to as a DRDA requester, issues SQL statements that get to DB2 by way of the distributed data facility, aka DDF).
Elie
AUGUST 1, 2014
In-depth research publications, industry talks and blog posts about Google security, research at Google and cybersecurity in general in open-access.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 28, 2014
On August 19, 2014, California state legislators made final amendments to a bill updating the state’s breach notification law. The amended bill, which passed the State Senate on August 21 and the Assembly on August 25, is now headed to California Governor Jerry Brown for signature. If signed, the scope of the existing law would extend to apply to entities that “maintain” personal information about California residents.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 27, 2014
On August 19, 2014, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior published a revised draft cybersecurity law (the “Draft Law”). An earlier version of the law was published in March 2013. The Draft Law is intended to serve as a cornerstone of Germany’s recently-announced digital agenda. “Critical Infrastructure” and Security Requirements. The revised Draft Law will amend a number of laws and provisions relating to IT security.
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Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 20, 2014
On August 14, 2014, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (the “Centre”) submitted its response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (“NTIA’s”) request for public comment on big data and consumer privacy issues. The NTIA’s request, which follows the White House’s recent study of big data, the May 2014 Big Data Report , and the associated President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Report , seeks further public input on
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 14, 2014
On August 14, 2014, the Center for Digital Democracy (“CDD”) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and requested that the Commission investigate 30 companies certified to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. In the complaint, CDD maintains that it analyzed 30 data marketing and profiling companies that currently are Safe Harbor-certified and identified the following five overarching themes that CDD claims “underscore the fundamental weakness of the Safe Harbor in its current incarnat
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 14, 2014
On July 28, 2014, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released a comprehensive report on Big Data and Data Protection (the “Report”). This is the first big data guidance prepared by a European data protection authority. The Report describes what is meant by “big data,” the privacy issues big data raises, and how to comply with the UK’s Data Protection Act in the context of big data.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 13, 2014
On August 6-10, 2014, the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup (“DPS”) and its parent committee, the Electronic Commerce Steering Group (“ECSG”), met in Beijing, China, for another round of negotiations, meetings and workshops. The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams participated as part of the U.S. delegation. The principal focus of the meetings was again on the further implementation of the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) system and related work relevant to cross-b
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Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 13, 2014
On August 8, 2014, a court in Shanghai found a foreign couple guilty of illegal collection of personal information. British national Peter Humphrey was sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment and a fine of RMB 200,000, and his wife was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and a fine of RMB 150,000. In addition, Humphrey will be deported after serving his term.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 11, 2014
On August 6, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had approved a safe harbor program submitted by the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (“iKeepSafe”), stating the program provides the “same or greater protections” for children under the age of 13 as those contained in the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”). An updated version of the COPPA Rule came into effect July 1, 2013.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 4, 2014
As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : Illinois recently joined a growing number of states and municipalities that have passed “ban the box” laws regulating when employers can inquire into an applicant’s criminal history. The Job Opportunities for Qualified Applicants Act was signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn on July 19, 2014.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 4, 2014
On August 1, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission released a new staff report examining the consumer protection implications of popular mobile device applications that provide shopping and in-store purchase services. The report, What’s the Deal? An FTC Study on Mobile Shopping Apps , details the findings from a recent FTC staff survey that studied consumer rights and data protection issues associated with some of the most popular mobile shopping apps on the market.
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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 1, 2014
On July 30, 2014, the European Commission announced two new EU standards to help users of Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) smart chips and systems comply with both EU data protection requirements and the European Commission’s 2009 Recommendation on RFID. Among other suggestions, the Recommendation discussed the development of a common European symbol or logo to indicate whether a product uses a smart chip.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 1, 2014
On July 31, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission published a notice in the Federal Register indicating that it is seeking public comment on its Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”) as “part of the FTC’s systematic review of all current Commission regulations and guides.” In the press release accompanying the Federal Register notice, the FTC stated that its questions for the public focus on (1) the use and sharing of pre-acquired account information in telemarketing, and (2) issues raised by the use of
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 29, 2014
'The post Writing Is Code, Reading Is Visualization appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Yesterday I stumbled onto a fascinating PBS Newshour interview with book designer Peter Mendelsund, well-regarded for his cover treatments of titles ranging from George Dyson’s Turing’s Cathedral to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Mendelsen argued that when we read, we visualize the text, each of us creating a different reality in our minds.
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