John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 9, 2010
I' ve written extensively about iAds here and here , and one question I raised has to do with Apple's policies with regard to third party data and ad networks, in particular AdMob. As All Things Digital notes today , Apple this week "clarified" its policy with regard to third party networks, and it's hard to read it as anything other than a direct declaration of war with Google.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 30, 2010
The reality of working with companies to help unlock the value of collaboration is that you are typically working behind their firewalls, unable to connect with the outside world. I’ve just spent a great deal of time last week working in Europe in the locked down environments of global companies, talking to various constituents exploring [.
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Preservica
JUNE 1, 2010
I'm really looking forward to presenting at the Association of Canadian Archivists Pre conference next week. The theme is Digital Preservation in the Canadian Landscape, and I'm going to be speaking about international collaboratives including Planets and KEEP. They have a packed agenda with some very interesting topics and an opportunity for an open discussion on what the audience has learned during the event, and how people think organizations in Canada might progress.
Daradiction
JUNE 5, 2010
Dale Okuno is one of our investors at CitySourced. He’s also one of my mentors and close friends. To give some context, Dale is very level headed and recently sold his company to Ebix, a Nasdaq traded company. He built it from scratch up to nearly 400 employees. Dale and I recently took a road trip up to Mammoth a few weeks ago and in the car on the ride up he started telling me about this book called “The Power of Now&# by Eckart Tolle and how it was one the most profound books he&#
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Hunton Privacy
JUNE 30, 2010
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 1, 2010
and I mean that. Watching Jobs work his way through nearly 90 minutes of interview and audience questions , I really felt, for the first time, a sense of how strongly the guy feels for his work and his products. Then again, I found myself angry, several times. Angry when he championed the press as crucial to democracy, and implied the iPad would save our country from "descending into a nation of bloggers" (my view: we started as a nation of bloggers - pamphleteers like Thomas Paine).
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 6, 2010
With the big US Enterprise 2.0 conference a week away, some more thoughts on accelerating business performance with the effective deployment of these modern technologies.As previously discussed here, modern technology has greatly accelerated the rate at which we can create letters, documents, notes and voice communication, but these outdated workflow paradigms are inefficient and choking [.
Shoreline Records Management
JUNE 9, 2010
The amount of Paper in the average office continues to grow by 20% to 30% each year, and Offsite Document Storage is often required for companies that have either outgrown their existing space, or have too many files to efficiently manage in their current configuration. No matter what type of company you have it is increasingly important to adequately plan for the proper storage, retrieval and purging of documents.
Scary Beasts Security
JUNE 25, 2010
Open redirectors are a contentious issue. Old-school hackers think anyone who thinks they are serious is on drugs. New-school hackers are more evenly divided. I haven't yet seen a public, balanced list of reasons why you should be worrying about other problems. Here it is. For now, I'll concentrate on the central idea that open redirectors permit domain obfuscation and therefore facilitate phishing etc.
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
JUNE 24, 2010
On June 17, 2010, the French data protection authority (the “CNIL”) reported that it had conducted an on-site investigation at Google on May 19 to examine activities by Google’s Street View cars. This investigation followed Google’s May 14 announcement that it had inadvertently captured Wi-Fi signals emitted in locations where its vehicles were taking photos.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 8, 2010
The most tweeted Slideshare of the show so far is Mary's presentation. Here it is for your reading pleasure! Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research View more presentations from CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 27, 2010
I spent a fair portion of today at the O'Reilly Foo Camp , as eclectic an assortment of smart folks as you're likely to find anywhere. I wrote perhaps the first ever piece on Foo back in late 2003 , and I've been trying to make it every year since. It's quite a confab. Today I asked a number of the folks I ran into the same question: "Is Apple a part of the Web?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 2, 2010
you just have to rethink what "search" really means. Last night Jobs said he had no interest in search. I am quite certain what he meant is he has no interest in HTML, "traditional" search. But think about what search really is, and I am certain, Apple will be in the search business. Why? Well, as I said in the last post on the iPad (and rather hurriedly, and entirely my fault, poorly communicated to many of those who left comments), it's all about the link.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 29, 2010
Last weekend the news was conjecture about Facebook doing web search, today, the news is conjecture about Google doing social networks. All of this has been sparked by two well known Valley guys opining on samesaid.Kevin Rose, CEO of Digg, tweeted that Google was working on a "Google Me" social network (he since was "asked to take down his tweet" by someone.) and then a former Facebook employee answered a related question on his own Q&A service, Quora.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 8, 2010
Here's the deck I used to open the CM Summit yesterday. Enjoy! Opening Slides by John Battelle, Monday June 7 View more presentations from CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time. PS - all the presentations are available on our CM Summit channel here.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 28, 2010
I'm not an Android user, yet (working on that), but if this piece is even halfway true, Google needs to respond, quickly, with a plan to fix the Android app store. I've heard over and over that Android's user experience, when it comes to apps, is terrible, and it's a major reason why folks love Apple. Signal over noise. Noise and dirt are essential to the web, but there's no reason why they have to overrun it.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 4, 2010
The CM Summit kicks off next week on Monday morning with an interview of John Hayes , CMO for American Express. I've come to know John through my work at Federated, and I am certain this session will be lively and full of insights. American Express is one of the world's premiere brands, consistently ranked in the top 25 by marketing and business publications.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 30, 2010
for those of you reading Searchblog in RSS and not watching ze Tweets.here are the Signals that I do over at FM's site. Weds. Signal: It’s a Good Day to Read The News. Tuesday Signal: Location, Location, Location. Monday Signal: Welcome to Summer, Now Get to Work. You can sign up to get the Signal email, a daily roundup of what I'm reading and why, on the main page of Signal here (box in the right hand corner).
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 14, 2010
I'll be traveling this next ten or so days, both for work and vacation, and not posting much here. However, I want readers to know I've read all the comments on my last Apple post , and plan a pretty detailed response once I come back. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in these pages soon.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 29, 2010
Google today announced another step in its protracted divorce from China - to satisfy regulatory and license requirements, it's no longer directly serving results from its Hong Kong based (and uncensored) engine onto its Google.cn site. Instead, it's directing users to the Hong Kong site, in essence, creating one more click for users to go through before accessing its service.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 2, 2010
you just have to rethink what "search" really means. Last night Jobs said he had no interest in search. I am quite certain what he meant is he has no interest in HTML, "traditional" search. But think about what search really is, and I am certain, Apple will be in the search business. Why? Well, as I said in the last post on the iPad (and rather hurriedly, and entirely my fault, poorly communicated to many of those who left comments), it's all about the link.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 3, 2010
Thanks to Andy at Beet for asking. My post earlier here goes into far more detail.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 20, 2010
The Boston US Enterprise 2.0 conference, which I’m heavily involved in organizing as an advisory board member, has concluded for another year. This edition had a more mature business feel to it on multiple levels but aside from the keynote stage presentations and expo floor it’s still primarily a practitioner conference. There’s a slightly bipolar aspect [.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 24, 2010
Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information. The charges stem from alleged lapses in the company’s data security that permitted hackers to access tweets that users had designated as private and to issue phony tweets from the accounts of some users, including then-President-elect Barack Obama.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 24, 2010
On June 24, 2010, the Article 29 Working Party adopted Opinion 2/2010 (the “Opinion”) providing further clarification on online behavioral advertising. The Working Party also issued a press release on this topic. Although the scope of the Opinion is limited to online profiling, its interpretation of Article 5(3) of the amended e-Privacy Directive provides some useful clarifications regarding the legal framework applicable to online behavioral advertising and the use of cookies.
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Hunton Privacy
JUNE 23, 2010
On June 18, 2010, the data protection authority of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein published a press release and a comprehensive legal opinion on cloud computing. The opinion provides an overview of cloud computing and discusses various practical and legal matters, including: Applicable law issues. The legal basis for cloud computing and related processor and controller issues.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 22, 2010
On June 17, 2010, the French data protection authority (the “CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2009 (the “Report”) in which it outlines some of its priorities for the upcoming year. In February 2009, the CNIL published a report on online targeted advertising. Among other things, the CNIL voiced its concern regarding online behavioral and advertising activities and analyzed the risks of increasing user profiling.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 22, 2010
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal recently announced that his office will lead a multistate investigation into the “deeply disturbing” unauthorized collection of personal data from wireless computer networks by Google’s Street View cars. Attorney General Blumenthal noted that Google “must provide a complete and comprehensive explanation of how this unauthorized data collection happened, why the information was kept if collection was inadvertent and what action will prevent a recur
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