Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England was fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited after she wrote that her job was dull on her Facebook profile. “all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!‘&# … “im so totally bord!!!&# 16-year-old Swann said she never mentioned by name the company [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
Trust me on this one, this one will kick up some dust. Am on an airplane, will write more soon. Here's the Google post announcing the move.nothing at all mentioned about sharing revenues with the news orgs who provide Google News its content. I cannot believe that this issue was not proactively dealt with. It must have been. Right? Readers in the news industry, speak up - any insight?
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ChiefTech
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
In the last couple of months I've been working on number of different projects - with one major piece of contract work keeping me busy in Canberra right now - and while each has a different start and finish point, there has been a common theme in each related to the overlap of intranets (as we traditionally think of them) and collaboration. Now, don't get too excited.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
CVS Pharmacy (“CVS”), reportedly the largest retail pharmacy chain, has agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) $2.25 million and submit a Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”) to HHS after an extensive nationwide investigation by the HHS Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) which revealed that CVS employees disposed of protected health information (“PHI”) in violation of
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Information Matters
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Just a quick post to say how impressed I am with the developer(s) behind Blogrollr. Thanks to Fred Wilson for pointing Blogrollr out as a useful new tool. It is a Firefox extension that tracks the blogs you are reading and gives a real-time update to anyone that is interested. You can see the result on the right of my blog. I installed it yesterday but noticed a problem with installing the extension on more than one computer.
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Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
If you’re familiar with the relationship book ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ and work with technology, you may have noticed the fundamental differences in the way people think about software. In companies of all sizes, the challenges of working to keep existing infrastructure running and new technologies effectively integrated and secure takes up [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
I've been gone a week and most likely there is a lot of chatter on this, but this article is worth keeping in mind as the new administration gets non economic emergency work started (which could be years, I suppose.). Antitrust Pick Varney Saw Google as Next Microsoft (Update2). By James Rowley. Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Christine A. Varney, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S.’s next antitrust chief, has described Google Inc. as a monopolist that will dominate online computing servic
ChiefTech
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
I'm here at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum today and I think this makes a very appropriate moment to let you know that as of next week I will working with Anne Barlett-Bragg at Headshift here in Australia. :-) So who are Headshift ? "Headshift is Europe's leading enterprise social computing consultancy. We have over 5 years' experience in designing, implementing and growing next generation social software solutions.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
This week, the Federal Communications Commission announced a broad consumer privacy enforcement action against over 600 telecommunications carriers. The Commission issued notices of liability against carriers that failed to certify compliance with regulations governing the protection of Consumer Proprietary Network Information (“CPNI”) and carriers that filed inadequate certifications.
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Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
So it seems it is broadly true, young people really are more open and older ones more set in their ways, according to a fascinating article in the Scientific American. • Studies of personality development often focus on traits such as extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to new experiences. In most people, these traits change [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
Over and over, I've written about new interfaces to search. Google's recent introduction of Latitude gets us closer. A few snippets and thoughts: First, the big type on Google's site says this: "See where your friends are on a map." I don't know about you, but it sure sounds like something Facebook should have done first. Maybe they have and I missed it?
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
Speaking at a business school, former AOL honcho Bob Pittman said : "Television is still America's hobby. I don't think there's a chance that the Internet is going to replace television," he said. "It's not going away, it's still the most persuasive of all media. "Internet video is usually about three minutes long and is either wildly entertaining or wildly informative, but it's not doing the same thing as television.".
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Superbowl start time on Yahoo: on Google : I clicked on a few places with Google, and one site did not resolve. The others were frustrating. Yahoo had the answer right at the top.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 8, 2009
Retweeting via blog Mary Hodder: I asked if the person was full time or a contractor (Google has already acknowledged it is significantly shrinking its contract labor force) and she replied : full time eng on a critical path project. so were others. 4-5 yr employees. Yow.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Recently I interviewed Jason Kilar, CEO of the very hot (and very unusual) video start up Hulu. (If you want more on what Hulu is, check out his introduction of it at our CM Summit last June). Hulu is funded by NBC and Fox, and Jason comes from Amazon, and he's very clearly a product guy - and Hulu is a very good product. In any case, when I was moderating the panel (it was at a private event), I asked Jason if the SuperBowl ad his company ran (it was part of a deal with NBC, paid for with credi
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
This is a fascinating post from Google on how we track data on search results. I think we as an industry (social media, new forms of digital media) need to do a better job of proving the engagement we all know exists online. It's presumed in television (and there's tons of research to back it up). We need to do more, and a better job, of showing the impressive engagement of online.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
While I was out, much news has broken in our world. Yahoo, for example, launched an experiment called "Search Pad." From their corporate post: (Search Pad is) a new feature we’re testing on Yahoo! Search that helps you keep track of websites and take notes whenever you do research online. It intelligently understands when you’re in research mode and, if you choose, collects information about the sites you visit.
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Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
I heard a horrifying story this week while in the UK about a girl who lost control of her online identity. This is not a story which has been picked over by pundits and bloggers, discussed in the advertising driven media or even with any legal authorities. This was a very personal story with a [.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
It seems everywhere you turn these days there’s an excitable story about Twitter, the microblogging tool that is a mystery to some people, a miracle to others, and a service some are noisily evangelizing in hope of self publicity. As Twitter scales up in user numbers, the level of hysteria seems to be going through the [.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
There are various shades, strengths and weaknesses to competing software packages, with vendors catering to different user segments and market success often defining the direction of their products. Knowledge Plaza is a relatively new offering in the enterprise collaboration space and offers a very sophisticated set of tools aimed primarily at knowledge workers, and whose development [.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 7, 2009
&#. The New York Fox News video report above by John Seutzman describes a well coordinated attack on 130 automatic teller machines (ATM’s) in 49 cities worldwide within 30 mins, which jeopardized sensitive information and netted over $9 million. Shortly after midnight Eastern Time on November 8 2008, the FBI believes that dozens of people used hacked [.
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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.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
It’s been a stormy week in Northern California with torrential rain and power cables downed. People used to flicking a switch and getting electric power have been deprived of that utility. Coghead, a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform ‘utility computing’ company, announced it was going [.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Reuters is reporting a big shake up at Salesforce tonight pst, with President and chief strategy officer Steve Cakebread resigning along with two other senior executives. (Cakebread is still listed as chief financial officer on the Salesforce website executive leadership page). Gary Hanna, executive vice president for enterprise sales plus one other unnamed executive are the [.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Box.net, the online file hosting and sharing service that allows users to store, access and share files remotely, is moving further into the collaboration space. Founded in 2005 as a Software as a Service offering, Box was originally the antidote to the ftp and file sharing problem, with an attractively presented simple content management system. Sporting their [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 28, 2009
One more piece falling into place in my five year old example of how search is changing via mobile. Snaptell. Found via the IPG Lab in LA earlier this week, though the company has been around for a few years. TC covers it back in November here.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Carol Bartz seems like a pretty plain spoken woman, from what I can tell. I am looking forward to interviewing her at Web 2 this year , she's one of the first folks to agree to come, and given my conversation with Jerry last year, I think it should prove to be quite a dialog. I'm enjoying her blog posts on Yahoo Anecdotal. Check this one out , in which she talks about "cleaning house" and restructuring Yahoo (yet again, honestly, it's like the tenth time in as many quarters, feels like): Finally
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
I noted earlier that Yahoo had joined Twitter, and thought out loud about a combination of those two. I've also thought out loud about Google, and this week the company also joined Twitter. It's interesting to note the differences between the two. First, Yahoo joined earlier, but has 5200 followers, compared to Google's nearly 30K - all in the past two days.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
I just noticed, thanks to my crack net admin Ken, that [link] (I'm not going to link to it and give it juice) is being parked, skinned, and used to make money. Yuck. Help - what do you all suggest I do about it? I must have forgotten to renew it, or perhaps I never bought it. Ick.
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