John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 19, 2011
At least, there shouldn't be. We've passed that era. Any business of scale and worthy of going public, as LinkedIn did today in spectacular style, isn't a dotcom. It's a real business, with significant impact in several important markets. In LinkedIn's case, those markets include publishing, recruitment, and professional services. So what if they are leveraged over a digital platform that has a ".com" address?
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 1, 2011
We’re at an interesting tipping point between mobile technology, email and video partly brought about by odd business decisions. I’ve been using Flip video cameras to record discovery in interviews all last week and will be using them again this week with the participants permission; as I’ve previously discussed here they are a useful way of [.
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Robert's Db2
MAY 16, 2011
That's OC as in Orange County, California, where you'll find Anaheim, site of the 2011 International DB2 Users Group North American Tech Conference. The conference wrapped up on May 6, and herein I have items of information gleaned from some of the sessions I attended (posting delayed by a crazy-busy week following the IDUG event). In a few days I'll provide more of these nuggets in a Part 2 entry.
Daradiction
MAY 25, 2011
Good Magazine and What’s Trending bring you are “People Are Awesome&# segment, which focuses on innovative ideas that will change your digital and real life (CBS/What’s Trending) – In this week’s What’s Trending and Good Magazine’s “People are Awesome&# segment Kurt Daradics, co- founder of the CitySourced smart phone app, explains the app and all that it can do to raise civic awareness.
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Hunton Privacy
MAY 31, 2011
The German Data Protection Authorities of Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia have issued a paper containing Frequently Asked Questions about the German statutory data breach notification requirement that went into effect on September 1, 2009. The paper provides detailed information on key questions concerning the procedure for notification as required by Section 42a of the German Federal Data Protection Act.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 4, 2011
Many of you probably remember the "Points of Control" Web 2 Summit Map from last year, it was very well received. Hundreds of thousands of folks came to check it out, and the average engagement time was north of six minutes per visitor. It was a really fun way to make the conference theme come to life, and given the work that went into its creation, we thought it'd be a shame to retire it simply because Web 2 has moved on to a new theme.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 14, 2011
There’s a world of difference between empty containers and spaces and full ones, and software is no exception. The materials we create as we work together accumulates rapidly and can quickly become clutter, filling up containers and clogging up the communication pipes. This thought popped up in my mind at San Francisco airport’s recently opened new [.
Positively RIM
MAY 12, 2011
My next article, "Records and Information Management in the Cloud" will appear in Baseline Magazine, a Ziff Davis Publication. The full text is scheduled to post on Baseline's Website in June. The "Nine Issues" section is scheduled for the print edition next in September. The links will appear here when the become available. Thanks for your interest!
Daradiction
MAY 6, 2011
Meeting Geography Pioneer Roger Tomlinson at Esri HQ was a memory. We had some fun telling jokes, talking about koala bears, and hearing the story about how Roger and Jack Dangermond met in Santa Barbara in the late 60’s. Now I just need to pick up a copy of Thinking About GIS.
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
MAY 31, 2011
On May 27, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule provision that requires covered entities to provide an accounting of disclosures of protected health information (“PHI”) to individuals upon request. The proposed rule revises existing HIPAA Privacy Rule provisions regarding an accounting of disclosures and also gives individuals a new right to obtain an “access report” about which specific individuals hav
JKevinParker
MAY 31, 2011
I was editing my Amazon.com profile and adding to my "interests" section. When I went to save my profile, Amazon.com barked at me and said that I could not have profanity in my interests section. Excuse me? Notice this screen shot of the interests I had typed: I wondered if they didn't like "politics" or "religion." As it turns out, the offending term was "ASP.NET.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 11, 2011
Today we announced the first tranche of speakers for this year's Web 2 Summit conference, Oct. 17-19 at the Palace Hotel. It's a great group, but we're really only getting started. I'm mixing up the programming approach quite a bit this year, with no panels and a lot more short, impactful High Order Bits and data visualizations. Right now we have 26 or so speakers confirmed, but I expect we'll be at nearly three times that by the time we're done.
Preservica
MAY 6, 2011
Following discussions at various conferences I am very pleased to have been invited to join the PREMIS editorial board. This is a great opportunity to push some of the advanced approaches and real experience encapsulated in SDB's XIP schema into international standards.
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
MAY 19, 2011
On 26 May 2011, new rules on the use of website cookies will come into force and threatens to drastically […].
Daradiction
MAY 25, 2011
Good Magazine and What's Trending bring you are "People Are Awesome" segment, which focuses on innovative ideas that will change your digital and real life (CBS/What's Trending) - In this week's What's Trending and Good Magazine's "People are Awesome" segment Kurt Daradics, co- founder of the CitySourced smart phone app, explains the app and all that it can do to raise civic awareness.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 27, 2011
On June 6, 2011, join Hunton & Williams for a panel discussion on the implementation of the new EU Cookie Law in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands. EU law on the use of cookies is changing. Opt-in consent will be required, but specific requirements may differ across the EU. What are organizations doing to ensure compliance with the new cookie law?
JKevinParker
MAY 28, 2011
I am a Professional Member of AIIM. About AIIM: For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 10, 2011
Today a big story broke across my news feeds: " Facebook set for display ad lead " says one typical headline in the Financial Times. It continues: Facebook’s large user base will make it the world’s largest online display advertising company by revenue this year, overtaking the comparable businesses of Google and Yahoo, according to analysis published on Tuesday.
Scary Beasts Security
MAY 27, 2011
A while ago, I was playing with grammar-based XPath fuzzing and I found and fixed an interesting libxml bug. The commit, for the curious, is here: [link] The trigger for this bug was the XPath expression: //@*/preceding::node()/ancestor::node()/ancestor::foo['foo'] which for some reason I haven't yet analyzed leads to a pathologically large collection of nodes within libxml.
Robert's Db2
MAY 24, 2011
Following up on the entry I posted last week , here are some more items of information picked up in sessions I attended during the IDUG 2011 North American DB2 Tech Conference, put on by the International DB2 Users Group earlier this month in Anaheim, California (in Orange County, aka "the OC"): IBM Distinguished Engineer John Campbell delivered a presentation on DB2 10 for z/OS migration and early user experiences that was (as usual where John's concerned) full of useful, actionable content.
Daradiction
MAY 6, 2011
Meeting Geography Pioneer Roger Tomlinson at Esri HQ was a memory. We had some fun telling jokes, talking about koala bears, and hearing the story about how Roger and Jack Dangermond met in Santa Barbara in the late 60's.
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.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 26, 2011
On May 11, 2011, in Thomas Robins v. Spokeo, Inc. , the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted in part and denied in part defendant Spokeo, Inc.’s motion to dismiss claims that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The ruling allows the plaintiff to continue his action against Spokeo, a website that aggregates data about individuals from both online and offline sources.
JKevinParker
MAY 26, 2011
In an earlier post , I mentioned two uses I saw for "Reusable Content" in SharePoint 2010, but that I needed to research these further. After doing this research, and given the particular client's need, I elected to use Page Layouts instead. This allowed me to put common display elements used for home pages of subsites in one place. In order to make Page Layouts work, we had to enable the SharePoint Server Publishing site feature on each site.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 27, 2011
After a 22-year career helming communications and later all of central marketing for Microsoft - she count's her budgets with a "b", folks - Mich Matthews, who I admit I've grown fond of, is leaving Microsoft later this summer. For years I've asked Mich to sit down with me and endure one of my trademark grillings, and for years she's demurred, in the main because she believes that the CMO should not be a front person.
Scary Beasts Security
MAY 25, 2011
I'm just back from the fun that was HiTB Amsterdam 2011. (Plug: you should check out one of the HiTB series if you haven't yet; Dhillon and crew invariably put a good, intimate conf together). I sat on the day 2 keynote panel on "The economics of vulnerabilities". As usual, talking about this topic was great fun and the audience asked some great questions.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 9, 2011
Greg Linden, a friend to the site back when I was writing the first book, is writing more lately, and he's got a great post about Google Maps data that highlights why we've decided to focus on " The Data Frame " for the Web 2 Summit this year. Greg notes that Google has a new signal to which it can pay attention, thanks to Google Maps. And while I'm sure Greg could have figured this out on his own, he didn't have to, because some Googlers have already published their findings in a paper titled "
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2011
One of the curveball sessions I'm most looking forward to at next week's CM Summit is with filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, whose recent documentary features " Connected " was selected for inclusion at Sundance (and many other prestigious festivals.) Today I jumped on the phone with Shlain, who has been a fellow traveler since the days when I started The Industry Standard and she founded The Webbys.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2011
As I've told folks on Twitter, I'm a judge in American Express OPEN's " Big Break " program, a Facebook promotion that is offering five worthy small businesses a chance to fly to Facebook HQ and get a complete "business makeover," as well as $20,000 in cash. As someone who has started five or so small businesses, I know the power of a helping hand at the right time, heck, I know the power of just organizing oneself to enter a contest like this.
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