John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'The post To Be Clear: Do Not Build Your Brand House On Land You Don’t Own appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) I took a rigorous walk early this morning, a new habit I’m trying to adopt – today was Day Two. Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You’re not moving so fast that you miss the world’s details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'Creating Information Systems for Competitive Advantage: ''every business must become digital;'' say Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich & Vinnie Mirchandani in their book. In my experience strategic planning for transformation is critical to lower costs while increasing innovation and agility.

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Robert's Db2

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

For the asterisk at the end of the this blog entry's title, you could substitute, "If what you think is based on what you've likely read or heard about this feature up till now." In the space below, I'll provide some background information on DB2 11's bind concurrency enhancement, and then I'll give you the bonus insight that you might see as the "cherry on top" -- the important scenario that is addressed by DB2 11 bind concurrency but which has received little (if any) coverage in documents and

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Interactive Information Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Thanks very much go to John Teeter - Managing Director, Federal Advisory at KPMG, Global Center of Excellence for Health and former HHS CIO - for his presentation and discussion leadership at today's #nvtc joint committee meeting (Health Technology and Business & Enterprise Architecture #nvtcbea ). The dialogue revolved around a principle challenge and opportunity in the Global and particularly the US healthcare transformation debate - bending the cost curve of US healthcare through better h

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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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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

On February 27, 2014, Chairwoman of the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin was elected Chairwoman of the Article 29 Working Party effective immediately. Ms. Falque-Pierrotin succeeds Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, who chaired the Article 29 Working Party for four years. The Working Party also elected two new Vice-Chairs: Wojciech Rafal Wiewiórowski of the Polish Data Protection Authority, and Gérard Lommel of the Luxembourg

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'The post We Are Not Google, Therefore, We Are appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. If you read me regularly, you know I am a fan of programmatic adtech. In fact, I think it’s one of the most important developments of the 21st century. And over the past few quarters, adtech has gotten quite hot, thanks to the recent successes of Rocket Fuel (up to 50 and holding from its open at 29), Criteo (trading above its already inflated opening price of 31), and, by extension, Facebook

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CGI

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Developing a clear blueprint for becoming a “cloud-enabled” enterprise. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Wed, 02/12/2014 - 08:00. As cloud computing continues to increase, more and more organizations are adopting a “cloud-first” approach to IT service delivery and embarking on becoming “cloud-enabled” enterprises. Cloud-first advocates believe that this approach will eventually become the default approach for enterprises of all types.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

'In my experience, strategic planning for transformation is critical to lower costs while increasing innovation and agility.

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Interactive Information Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Northern Virginia Enterprise Architects, Health Technology Professionals , in the Washington DC metro region - if you are members, stakeholders or guests of the Northern Virginia Technology Council ( #NVTC ), please join us this next Tuesday Feb 8 th , 2014, from 7:30-9AM, for a Health Technology, Business and Enterprise Architecture Joint Committee Meeting.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Hunton & Williams Insurance Litigation & Counseling partner Lon Berk reports: The recently publicized Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) bug affecting Apple Inc. products raises a question regarding insurance coverage that is likely to become increasingly relevant as “The Internet of Things” expands. Specifically, on certain devices, the code used to set SSL connections contains an extra line that causes the program to skip a critical verification step.

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JKevinParker

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

I am a lazy coder and data analyzer. I use text editing tools to search and replace and manipulate so I can then use a spreadsheet tool to break text into columns and rows. Then I can extract data or write code that follows patterns without a lot of manual work. If I am working on code, I can copy and paste it back into my text editor, remove the tabs, and then I have clean code.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'The post Linked In Is Now A Publishing Platform. Cool. But First Get Your Own Site. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a LinkedIn “Influencer” for a year or so, and while the honorific is flattering, I’m afraid I’ve fallen down in my duties to post there. The platform has proven it has significant reach, and for folks like me, who thrive on attention for words written, it’s certainly an attractive place to write.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

One of the most interesting and important developments in retail privacy cases is a recent unpublished decision, Capp v. Nordstrom. […].

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

'In my experience, strategic planning for transformation is critical to lower costs while increasing innovation and agility.

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Scary Beasts Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

One of my side projects is as an adviser and panelist for the non-profit Internet Bug Bounty (IBB). We recently added Adobe Flash Player as in scope for rewards. Earlier today, David Rude collected $10,000 for a vulnerability recently fixed in APSB13-28. My thoughts on this are too long to fit into a tweet, so I summarize them here: This shows that the IBB is serious about rewarding research which makes us all safer. $10,000 is a respectable reward by modern bug bounty program standards.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Triple-S Management Corporation reported in the 8-K it recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its health insurance subsidiary, Triple-S Salud, Inc. (“Triple S”), which is Puerto Rico’s largest health insurer, will be fined $6.8 million for a data breach that occurred in September 2013. The civil monetary penalty, which is being levied by the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration, will be the largest fine ever imposed following a breach of protected health info

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JKevinParker

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I had a problem where one of my teammates showed up twice in SharePoint people pickers and people search. I actually invited the wrong one to be part of a new site. It was the same person, but not from SharePoint's perspective. We had used this teammate's personal email account to test External User sharing, and that was the second account that showed up.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'The post Buh-Bye, CableCo appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. When it comes to television business models and the endless debate about “ cutting the cord ,” I consider myself in the “fast follower” camp – I’m not willing to endure the headaches and technical backflips required to get rid of cable entirely, but I sure am open to alternatives should they present themselves.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Last week, the FTC announced that it had settled with a gaming company that falsely claimed to be certified under […].

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CGI

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

IT Governance for Techies. Anonymous. Thu, 02/06/2014 - 09:35. Despite the increasing number of CIOs without an IT background, it's still fair to say that most were once techies. Historically, their expertise was in requirements analysis or SQL, service reporting or C++. They gradually moved up the ranks, either with a natural aptitude for management or picking-up management skills en route.

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Interactive Information Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Welcome to M usic Business 3.0 - it's not about the $1 song anymore. Most artists these days are gifting songs away just for email addresses, the occasional "like". The 3.0 music business model is about creating tracks and collecting many different revenue types internationally for each track/song. It's a new content marketing model and platform for music, for the entire music industry.

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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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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On January 31, 2014, the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union issued four notes regarding the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation. These notes, discussed below, address the following topics: (1) one-stop-shop mechanism; (2) data portability; (3) data protection impact assessments and prior checks; and (4) rules applicable to data processors.

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JKevinParker

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

All of the available out-of-the-box content types and their related columns in SharePoint Server 2013 are listed below (let me know if I missed any). I retrieved this information using PowerShell, as I describe in an earlier post. The parent content types were discovered by analyzing the content type IDs (which continues to work as it did in previous versions of SharePoint ).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

'The post Bill Gates Active Again At Microsoft? Bad Idea. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) This story reporting that Gates will return to Microsoft “one day a week” to focus on “product” has been lighting up the news this week. But while the idea of a founder returning to the mothership resonates widely in our industry (Jobs at Apple, Dorsey at Twitter), in Gates’ case I don’t think it makes much sense.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The recent Federal Court of Canada decision in Voltage Pictures LLC v. John Doe and Jane Doe (2014 FC 161) has […].

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'The post What Would You Ask Sundar Pichai, SVP Android & Chrome at Google? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A week from this coming Sunday at SXSW , I’ll be interviewing Sundar Pichai , Google’s Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome & Apps. Pichai has a huge job at Google, overseeing the company’s mobile ecosystem, from hardware (the Nexus platform) to the burgeoning Play store (oh, and that little browser/OS called Chrome, to boot).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'The post else 2.10: “Information that was never designed for a human to see” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, we were thinking about data post-language, reading the tea leaves of algorithms, and wondering how to protect the first principles of the web. 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 through RSS.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

'The post else 2.4: “Seeing ourselves as bits and bytes” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, lots of talk of data ethics and infopolitics. 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 through RSS.

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