October, 2012

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OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m very excited to announce that registration is now open for OpenCoSF , a new kind of event that I’m helping to bring into the world. Registration is free and open to anyone who’s interested in innovation in the Bay area. You can sign up here.

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The software creation literacy crisis

Collaboration 2.0

The number of people who can read and write code, particularly for mobile devices, is dangerously low: what's needed are easier ways to create software you can use in the context of your specific needs.

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The 50% adoption ceiling for Enterprise 2.0

ChiefTech

Over the last few years, under the stewardship of Susan Scrupski (who has just recently started a new role with 7 Summits ), the Social Business Council (previously known as the 2.0 Adoption Council) have released some interesting case studies and field data from large enterprises who have actively embarked on implementing Web 2.0 and social software internally.

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DB2 for z/OS: Have You Checked Your Log RBA Value Lately?

Robert's Db2

I'm in Las Vegas this week for the IBM Information on Demand 2012 conference. At this year's IOD event I've particularly enjoyed learning more about DB2 11 for z/OS , the beta program for which is expected to begin in March of 2013. DB2 11 will deliver a lot in the way of new features and capabilities. One of the big news items here is the extended RBA that will be available in DB2 11 systems running in new-function mode (the RBA, or relative byte address, is an identifier for records written by

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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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Singapore Parliament Passes Personal Data Protection Act

Hunton Privacy

On October 15, 2012, the Singapore Parliament passed the Personal Data Protection Act 2012. Though a law has been under discussion for quite some time, this bill was introduced before Parliament only recently, in September of this year. The new law will apply only to data processing in the private sector as data processing by public agencies (or organizations acting on behalf of public agencies) are already subject to internal government rules.

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At Google Zeitgeist: Theoretical Physics and Astronauts, Unite!

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post At Google Zeitgeist: Theoretical Physics and Astronauts, Unite! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Earlier in the week I traveled to the annual Google Zeitgest conference, where I’ve been honored to be a moderator for the past few years. This year I was given the challenge of tacking a 90-minute block on “The World We Dream,” which featured an extraordinary set of speakers.

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Have I got a deal for you!

Collaboration 2.0

'Social' SaaS and holiday timeshare sales pitches are alarmingly similar. Don't believe the hype: focus on where you need to go and what you'll digitally need to get there.

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Kai Riemer: Introduction to enterprise microblogging

ChiefTech

This video of Kai Riemer , from the University of Sydney, is a great introduction to enterprise microblogging and the emergent properties of enterprise social software. His presentation is based on his research into how people are using Yammer in large companies. However, this isn't a recipe - the big take away for me from his research is that different organisations use enterprise social software differently and the importance of identifying bottom-up use cases.

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So, Where do You Specify the IP Address of YOUR DB2 for z/OS Subsystem?

Robert's Db2

If your answer to the question posed in the title of this blog entry is, "In a PORT reservation statement in our z/OS LPAR's TCP/IP profile data set," that's NOT what I want to hear. It's true that for a long time this was the standard way to assign an IP address to a DB2 for z/OS subsystem, and it would look something like this: PORT 446 TCP DBP1DIST BIND 111.222.333.444 ; DRDA SQL PORT FOR DBP1 This was the way to go because DB2 didn't give you much of a choice in this regard.

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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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UK ICO Fine Reinforces Public Sector Compliance Concerns

Hunton Privacy

On October 23, 2012, just two weeks after issuing a series of reports highlighting the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (“ICO’s”) concerns regarding data protection compliance within the public sector, the ICO has imposed a monetary penalty of £120,000 and issued an enforcement notice against Stoke-on-Trent City Council (“Stoke Council”) in relation to a serious data breach.

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The case for digital archiving in life sciences

Preservica

Even as the Era of "Big Data" engulfs life sciences and researchers rush to wring immediate value from the electronic data deluge, the long-term archiving of this valuable asset is unfortunately, widely neglected. Few industries face a more daunting data management challenge. The size of datasets is numbing, the diversity of data types is bewildering, the technologies used to produce and analyse the data are advancing so rapidly that coping with obsolescence is becoming a more urgent challenge.

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On Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post On Data appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A glimpse of some of the thinking I’ve been doing about the impact of “data” on our culture. I am close (so damn close) to sealing myself off and into only thinking about this, for my book ( OpenCoSF is my last big project till I do). But thanks to the Vibrant Data project for taking an interview I did at TED earlier this year, and making it into something that almost makes me look like I have my s**t together

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The innovation log jam

Collaboration 2.0

Searches for ways to innovate often need to begin with looking at the self imposed limitations of internal corporate cultural conventions.

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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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Upcoming events in Melbourne: Connected Enterprise 2012 and From Liking to Leading

ChiefTech

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. 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.

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“CRTC encourages businesses to start preparing for Canada’s anti-spam legislation”

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) is expected to enter into force in 2013, together with two sets of regulations that will […].

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FTC Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

On October 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission released a report entitled “ Facing Facts: Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies.” The report focuses on privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology, which is becoming increasingly ubiquitous across a variety of commercial applications ranging from search engines to video games to password authentication.

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Georgia Archives closing due to budget cuts

Preservica

Sad news to hear that severe budget restrictions mean the Georgia State Archives www.bizjournals.com suspend their services. I had the pleasure of visiting the archives 2 years ago and it is a lovely facility run by some very welcoming professionals but like many excellent quality archives it is expensive to operate. This is the rational behind our launch of Preservica, our cloud hosted Digital Preservation as a Service offering.

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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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Data Wildcatters on the Wild Swiss Range

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Data Wildcatters on the Wild Swiss Range appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. You want to put your sensor *where*?!!!!! (image shutterstock ) I’ve been watching the news for tidbits which illuminate a thesis I’ve been working up for my book. Today the New York Times provided a doozy: Swiss Cows Send Texts to Announce They’re in Heat.

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Oracle & the enterprise carousel

Collaboration 2.0

Oracle's powerful offerings leverage the cloud's merger with mainstream enterprise computing, but their relevance are open to question.

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De-perimeterisation of the intranet - myroyalmail

ChiefTech

Its not a particularly social or interactive site, but the UK post office's employee site, myroyalmail is interesting for a couple of reasons: it features a great responsive design; and. it is externally accessible, without a login. On the second point it certainly fails the standard intranet test, but that external access probably drove the business case for its great mobile design.

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Time To Begin, Again

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Time To Begin, Again appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Family, colleagues, and friends knew this day was coming, I knew it was coming, but here it is: I’ve rented a new place to write, a small, remote house directly on the beach, about 12 miles as the crow flies from my home in Marin county. It’s not a direct 12 miles – that crow would have to fly up about 2500 feet so as to clear the peak of Mt.

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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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OpenCoSF Storified

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post OpenCoSF Storified appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Yesterday I participated in OpenCoSF. After weeks of preparation, we really had no idea how it was going to turn out, but to judge from the Twitter buzz, it seems folks had a really good time, and the vibe of open collaboration, rapid iteration, and “run with it” mentality really took over.

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Help Me Stop HubAdverts Dot Com!

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Help Me Stop HubAdverts Dot Com! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been working with my site design partner Blend to try to track down a spammer who has taken my entire site and repurposed it as their own, replete with tons of ads and a clear intent to draft off Searchblog’s quality content (if I do say so myself) and, most likely, its pagerank as well.

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OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m very excited to announce that registration is now open for OpenCoSF , a new kind of event that I’m helping to bring into the world. Registration is free and open to anyone who’s interested in innovation in the Bay area. You can sign up here. Already about 1,000 people have expressed interest in coming, and I think we’ve got room for another 500 or so, if my math is correct.

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On Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

A glimpse of some of the thinking I’ve been doing about the impact of “data” on our culture. I am close (so damn close) to sealing myself off and into only thinking about this, for my book ( OpenCoSF is my last big project till I do). But thanks to the Vibrant Data project for taking an interview I did at TED earlier this year, and making it into something that almost makes me look like I have my s**t together.

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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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Data Wildcatters on the Wild Swiss Range

John Battelle's Searchblog

(image shutterstock ) I’ve been watching the news for tidbits which illuminate a thesis I’ve been working up for my book. Today the New York Times provided a doozy: Swiss Cows Send Texts to Announce They’re in Heat. As James Gleick, author of The Information , noted in a Twitter response to me: That’s one heckuva headline. So what’s my thesis?

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Enterprise computing IS the cloud

Collaboration 2.0

Cloud strategy is now indivisible from enterprise computing - can Oracle retain its vast customer base in this new era?

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Twitter - I'm really trying to like your apps, but…

ChiefTech

As you may be aware, Twitter is transforming its technical platform to match what it considers to be a brand-friendly business model (i.e. its going to involve advertising). The main impact is on the tools that consumers will use or that people will embed on Websites. We are now starting to get a glimpse of what new features Twitter's stricter control of that UI will bring - for example, user surveys and a new visual profile design.

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