John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The post Facebook Is Now Making Its Own Weather appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) The past month or so has seen the rise and fall of an interesting Internet tempest – the kind of story that gets widely picked up, then quickly amplified into storms of anger, then eventually dies down as the folks who care enough to dig into the facts figure out that the truth is somewhere outside the lines of the original headline-grabbing story.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Who should own the digital keys to your private files and who can you trust as cloud file hosting struggles with archaic legal precedents and laws? Surprisingly Michael Chertoff & Kim Dotcom appear to agree: you should control encryption.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Collaboration software, including the latest generation of enterprise social software, is often put forward as a more effective alternative to email-based communication. But people aren't always convinced - they want to know why they should use a new tool over email which has generally served them quite well, what Andrew McAfee called the 9X email problem.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

On November 21, 2012, the UK Supreme Court handed down a judgment in The Rugby Football Union vs. Consolidated Information Services Limited (Formerly Viagogo Limited) , a case addressing the application of Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Protection of Personal Data) in the context of court orders seeking to disclose the identities of alleged wrongdoers.

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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

In my previous post, SharePoint 2010 Web Template Reference and Other Useful Stuff , I listed all of the OOTB Web Templates in SharePoint Server 2010 using a simple PowerShell command. For those who wonder what templates are available in the free SharePoint Foundation 2010, I ran the same command and got these results: SharePoint Foundation 2010 Web Templates.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The post On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. At least this platform is open… (image Shutterstock ). The world needs more open platforms. The term is loaded, but it’s worth unpacking. To me, an open platform is a consistent opportunity space where anyone – without prior permission – can attempt to create value, and the market gets to vote on that attempt.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Next gen browsers are the high ground on the maturing cloud battlefield, whether at individual or collaboration scale. Permissions, groups & filters configurations could be centralized in future vendor specific proprietary formats.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

This is a list of speakers at Connected Enterprise 2012 who are on Twitter: Brent Lello. Brian Solis. Cory Banks. Cuneyt Uysal. Dev Mookerjee. Erin Grotts. Jacob Morgan. James Dellow <- me! Jeffrey Tobias. Lincoln De Kalb. Mike Handes. Paul Miller. Rob Livingstone. Ross Dawson. Ross Hill. Shawn Callahan. Steve Hopkins. Thierry de Baillon. BTW I'm not sure if we have a hash tag for the event, but I've suggested #cemelb12.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 22, 2012, the Brussels-based publication European Voice published an editorial by U.S. Department of Commerce General Counsel Cameron Kerry entitled Avoiding a Data Divide Between the US and the EU. The article notes the importance of continued collaboration between the European Union and the United States as both assess their respective privacy frameworks to ensure that any changes encourage enhanced trade and strong economic growth, but also contain robust protections for consumers

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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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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are (at least) two CSS issues with the People Search web parts in SharePoint 2010 OOTB (out-of-the-box). Luckily, these are fairly easy to fix. I have run across other bloggers who use way too much CSS for this. What I provide here is lean and should be bulletproof. The Issues. First, the search box font size is entirely too small: People Search Box.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Download a copy of this year's PASIG October 2012 Digital Preservation on the Cloud presentation here.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The post In a Nutshell, The Android Problem: Totally Forked appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) I’m a fan of “open.” Anyone who knows me, knows this about me. But I’m also a fan of “easy.” And of “good design.” So, for the past couple of years, I’ve been an iPhone user, mainly because it was easy, and had better design than any alternative.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The changing face of what businesses need is challenging to incumbent suppliers.meanwhile a new generation of innovation is flowering around simplicity.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Michael Idinopulos is General Manager and Chief Customer Officer at Socialtext, but this honestly isn't the typical 'vendor' presentation. Its well worth watching if you want to understand why many of us think enterprise social software can make so much difference in the workplace. Via the Socialtext blog.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued monetary penalties totaling £440,000 to two owners of a marketing company that sent millions of unlawful spam SMS text messages over a period of three years. Following an 18 month investigation, Christopher Niebal and Gary McNeish, the owners of Tetrus Telecoms (“Tetrus”), have been ordered to pay £300,000 and £140,000, respectively.

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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

I was recently helping a client enterprise with their SharePoint 2010 branding, which included some changes to their My Site master page. Working on a VM in our cloud development environment, I went to the My Sites application, but did not see the "Site Actions" link I was expecting. Where is the Site Actions menu? I had seen and used this before, but I evidently did not have the right permissions in this environment.

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Robert's Db2

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

I was recently involved in an interesting DB2 for z/OS performance analysis effort. An organization had moved a DB2 data sharing group from one Parallel Sysplex mainframe cluster to another (if you aren't familiar with DB2 data sharing, you can check out an introductory blog entry that I posted a few years ago while working as an independent consultant).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The post Must All Grasshoppers Die? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been reading a lot lately – and the topics have been pretty diverse. Popular science fiction from ten years ago (Outerland), political commentary from last month (Future Perfect), seminal computing tracts from the 1990s (Mirror Worlds), and just published manifestos on synthetic biology (Regenesis).

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

E2 evolves to focus on mobile, data, analytics, cloud services and user experience and design.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The other day writing about email and enterprise social software , I concluded with the following: "Far from being a nemesis, email and enterprise social software are more likely to form a strong symbiotic relationship.". I want to explore a little further about what I mean by the possible future relationship between email and enterprise social software.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

On November 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published guidance on the two methods for de-identifying protected health information (“PHI”) in accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The guidance, which was required by the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (“HITECH”) Act, has been developed over several years by OCR in collaboration with healthcare entities and other industry experts and builds upon the discussions

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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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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

As a SharePoint Architect, I have to know a lot of stuff. Well, actually, I have to know how to quickly find the answers for a lot of stuff. There is just too much to know for one brain to store it all. Particularly as an architect and principal management consultant, I must continue to be a Subject Matter Expert in several areas: Enterprise Architecture.

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Robert's Db2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

A DB2 for z/OS DBA recently asked me about the pros and cons of hash-organized tables -- a physical database design option that is introduced with DB2 10 for z/OS running in new-function mode (NFM). Assuming that others in the mainframe DB2 community are also pondering this issue, I've decided to provide what I hope will be some useful information in this blog entry.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The post Can The Future Be Perfect? It Can Certainly Be Better appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. As my 2011 review of his Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation proves, I am a Steven Johnson fan. So it was with relish that I settled in to read his latest release: Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The Unspoken Threat of Software-as-a-Service. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 11/26/2012 - 07:00. I want to make this a balanced argument. I’ll start with the positives. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a fairly recent innovation which has taken-off phenomenally well, and with good reason. SaaS offers huge economies of scale, because it can be shared by many organisations.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

An announcement about the Yammer roadmap, now part of the Microsoft family, was anticipated in the lead up to the SharePoint Conference 2012. Mark Fidelman proposed it would be " game changing ". The main points of the announcement are covered here: Microsoft Shines the Spotlight on the New SharePoint. Putting Social to Work. No surprises that Yammer and the SharePoint & Office suite will work together more closely - this is API-based, through the Yammer Open Graph.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

On November 27, 2012, the International Chamber of Commerce of the United Kingdom (“ICC UK”) released the second edition of its cookie guidance (the “Guidance”). The ICC UK released the first edition of the Guidance in April of this year, and has produced this latest version to take into account updated guidance released by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 04/2012 on cookie consent exemption and new UK advertising rules on online behavioral a

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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Background I have walked simultaneously in the worlds of Windows and Unix/Linux/Apple OS X for years. In *nix, I prefer BASH (GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for administration. However, until PowerShell, Windows had nothing that could really compare to Bash. Microsoft had shells: first the COMMAND.COM in MS-DOS/Windows 9x and cmd.exe in Windows NT, then Windows Script Host introduced with Windows 98.

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