John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'The post Apple+Topsy: It’s Not About Twitter (And Twitter Is Probably Cool With That) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m going out on a limb, but a fairly stout one: Like Azeem , I think Apple bought Topsy for its search chops. But Azeem, who I admire greatly, says Topsy could become the search engine “for iOS… to index both the social Web, but also the best bits of the Web that power Siri and Apple Maps, [and] reduce the reliance on Google and reduc

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Robert's Db2

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Not long ago, a colleague sent to me some DB2 for z/OS buffer pool activity data that a DB2-using organization had sent to him. The DB2 people at this site were alarmed by some of the prefetch-related numbers in the data, and they had requested a review of the information. My analysis of the figures suggested that the system administrators were concerned by numbers that were in fact positive in nature; however, I also saw prefetch items that really were troublesome, and I subsequently learned th

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On December 16, 2013, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) released a set of practical FAQs (plus technical tools and relevant source code) providing guidance on how to obtain consent for the use of cookies and similar technologies in compliance with EU and French data protection requirements (the “CNIL’s Guidance”). Article 5.3 of the revised e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC imposes an obligation to obtain prior consent before placing or accessing cookies and similar technologies on web

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Interactive Information Management

DECEMBER 6, 2013

At KME (a DC SEO Company and Digital Technology Agency ), we cover a lot of ground among client types, industry segments and technology services, with a heavy emphasis on area DC SEO business requirements for online, interactive marketing and advertising. As a local or regional small business near Washington DC, including Northern Virginia, Suburban and Southern Maryland, there's an almost bewildering array of online marketing services, tools, channels and opportunities to sift through - plenty

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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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JKevinParker

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I was honored by my current employer, T. White Parker (no relation), to be given their "Star Award" as employee of the year for 2013. This award is for "dedication and outstanding contribution". This firm has taught me a lot about management consulting and federal contracting. I feel I have taught them some things, also, about information management and technology.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'The post Facebook Must Win The Grownup Vote appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s all over the media these days: Facebook is no longer cool , Facebook has lost its edge with teenagers , Facebook is now establishment. Well duh. Teenagers aren’t loyal to much of anything, especially Internet stuff. Tonight I had four of them at my table, ranging in age from 15 to 17.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) has been a long time coming. The Government of Canada announced today that most of CASL’s provisions […].

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 31, 2013

In recent months, the Chinese government has devoted attention to the protection of personal information with, as we previously reported , the promulgation of a number of new data protection regulations. This focus is also illustrated by recent actions related to crimes involving personal information. Gang Selling Personal Information Busted. Police apprehended a 10-member gang in Beijing and Shanghai for illegally obtaining and selling nearly one million pieces of personal information.

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Robert's Db2

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Of the features introduced with DB2 10 for z/OS, high-performance DBATs is one of my favorites. It enabled (finally) DDF-using applications to get the CPU efficiency benefit that comes from combining thread reuse with the RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) package bind option -- a performance tuning action that has long been leveraged for CICS-DB2 workloads. Implementing high-performance DBATs is pretty easy: in a DB2 10 (or 11) environment, when a package bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) is executed by way of a

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DECEMBER 29, 2013

Recently, there's been a reasonable amount of activity in the vtable protection space. Most of it is compiler-based. For example, there's the GCC-based virtual table verification, aka. VTV. There are also multiple experiments based on clang / LLVM and of course MSVC's vtguard. In the non-compiler space, there's Blink's heap partitioning, enabled by PartitionAlloc.

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CGI

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Turning Content Inside Out. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 12/12/2013 - 10:00. Content is changing - from author-controlled to consumer and collaboration-led. We review why this is happening and what an organisation can do to gain the benefits, cost and efficiency savings that will start to follow. The problem with 'old' Content. Content is produced today by most organisations in the same way since the 1980's when personal computers were introduced and 'personal productivity' software became availabl

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

'The post Traffic of Good Intent: We Beat Fraud By Working Together appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Earlier this year I wrote a post titled It’s Time To Call Out Fraud In The Adtech Ecosystem. The overwhelming response to that riposte led to a lunch at this year’s IAB annual meeting, which then led to the formation of the Traffic of Good Intent task force (TOGI), an IAB-sanctioned working group composed of leaders from nearly every major player in the media and adtech

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The number of class-action lawsuits brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) against businesses that regularly call consumers for […].

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 20, 2013

On November 27, 2013, the State Post Bureau of the People’s Republic of China (the “SPBC”) released five draft normative rules for solicitation of public comment. Three of these rules, respectively entitled Provisions on the Management of the Security of Personal Information of Postal and Delivery Service Users (the “Draft Provisions”), Provisions on the Reporting and Handling of Security Information in the Postal Sector (the “Reporting and Handling Provisions”), and Provisions on the Management

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 17, 2013

'The post Google’s Year End Zeitgeist: Once Again, Insights Lacking appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Great photo, but not one we searched for… It’s become something of a ritual – every year Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants , and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google *really* knows about what the world is up to.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'The post else 12.2: “Anchoring digital existence in the physical world” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week we get creative with 3D self-portraits, drones deliver in 30 minutes or less, we play Moneyball with job performance, 23andMe’s FDA troubles point to emerging data literacy problems, and language artifacts emerge.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

'The post else 12.16: “It’s not entirely rational” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, Google is on our minds and in the news, cookies are used for surveillance, the ephemeral web isn’t so ephemeral, and we’ve got more friends thinking about our emerging Data Society. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an email newsletter or thr

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'The post Playing With Infomous appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Getting a live demo of this new approach to content discovery/display and potential monetization. Anyone out there played with it too? The post Playing With Infomous appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'The post 12.9 else: “The most mericful thing in the world” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, the tension between industry, governments, and regulation gets hashed out over the NSA, drones, bitcoins, and DNA databases; bots are running research on our behalf, and I became “postdigital.” As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an emai

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

On December 18, 2013, the White House published a report recommending reforms to the federal government’s wide-ranging surveillance programs. The voluminous report, entitled “Liberty and Security in a Changing World,” was authored by The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, an advisory panel that includes experts in national security, intelligence gathering and civil liberties.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

On December 16, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from collecting and analyzing metadata related to two consumers’ mobile phone accounts. The court held that the two individual plaintiffs were entitled to a preliminary injunction because they had standing to challenge the government’s data collection practices and were substantially likely to succeed on the merits of their claim.

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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.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog , the “ban the box” movement continues to sweep through state legislatures. “Ban the box” laws, which vary in terms of scope and detail, generally prohibit employers from requesting information about job applicants’ criminal histories. Recent legislation in two states applies “ban the box” prohibitions to private employers in those states: On December 1, 2013, a new North Carolina law went into effect that prohibits employers fro

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 13, 2013

On December 12, 2013, Fred H. Cate , Senior Policy Advisor in the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP (the “Centre”), submitted comments in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (“NIST’s”) Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (the “Preliminary Framework”). On October 22, NIST issued the Preliminary Framework , as required by the Obama Administration’s February 2013 executive order, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (“Execu

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 13, 2013

On December 12, 2013, Advocate-General Cruz Villalón of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued his Opinion on the compatibility of the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (the “Data Retention Directive”) with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the “EU Charter”). Background. The Data Retention Directive requires EU Member States to ensure that telecommunications service providers collect and retain traffic and location data (but not the substantive content of those

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 12, 2013

On November 15, 2013, the People’s Bank of China (the “PBOC”) issued its Administrative Measures for Credit Reference Agencies (the “Measures”) – eight months after the Administrative Regulations on the Credit Information Collection Sector (the “Regulations”) became effective on March 15, 2013. The Measures, which will take effect on December 20, 2013, were formulated to enhance the supervision and regulation of credit reference agencies and to promote positive developments in the credit informa

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 12, 2013

As we previously reported , on October 21, 2013, the European Parliament approved its Compromise Text of the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”). Hunton & Williams has now published an analysis of these proposals. This latest analysis is the last installment in our series of Executive Briefings on the Proposed Regulation.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 11, 2013

On November 21, 2013, the Supreme People’s Court of China passed the Provisions on the Online Issuance of Judgment Documents by People’s Courts (the “Provisions”), which will take effect on January 1, 2014. The Provisions replace earlier rules (of the same title) enacted by the Supreme People’s Court on November 8, 2010, and generally focus on improved implementation of the principles of standardizing the online issuance of judgment documents, promoting judicial justice and enhancing the public

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 11, 2013

On December 2, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it will host a series of seminars to examine the privacy implications of three new areas of technology used to track, market to and analyze consumers: mobile device tracking, predictive scoring and consumer-generated health data. The seminars will address (1) businesses tracking consumers using signals from the consumers’ mobile devices, (2) the use of predictive scoring to determine consumers’ access to products and offers, and (3

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