John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
( image ) Recently I was in conversation with a senior executive at a major Internet company, discussing the role of the news cycle in our industry. We were both bemoaning the loss of consistent "second day" story telling - where a smart journalist steps back, does some reporting, asks a few intelligent questions of the right sources, and writes a longer form piece about what a particular piece of news really means.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
Salesforce exhibit marketing & presentation genius on a par with Apple to roll out new products across the global internet; pragmatic challenges in planning and realizing your needs are sometimes underestimated during roll out after digesting the dream
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Daradiction
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
Marshall McLuhan was a post modern day prophet. Read his prediction of the internet from 1962, “The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedil
Robert's Db2
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Over the past 15 years or so, I have written magazine articles, and presented, and blogged on the topic of DB2 for z/OS buffer pools and their impact on application performance (two of my more recent blog entries in this category were posted in September and October of last year). Often, the message boils down to this: bigger buffer pool configuration = good.
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Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
On September 27, 2011, OnStar announced it was reversing proposed changes to its Terms and Conditions that would have allowed the company to continue to receive data from former subscribers’ vehicles unless they specifically opted out. OnStar’s current Privacy Statement indicates that the GM subsidiary collects information regarding its customers’ vehicle operation, location, approximate speed, collision data and safety belt usage in connection with OnStar’s in-vehicle GPS navigation and emerge
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John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
( image ) As I posted earlier , last week I had a chance to sit down with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. We had a pretty focused chat on Twitter's news of the week , but I also got a number of questions in about Twitter's next generation of ad products. As usual, Dick was frank where he could be, and demurred when I pushed too hard. (I'll be talking to him at length at Web 2 Summit next month.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Enterprise leadership is often out of touch with innovation, collaborative processes and the levers for success: ‘Car Guys vs Bean Counters - The battle for the soul of American Business’ by Bob Lutz encapsulates much of what is wrong
Daradiction
SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
Marshall McLuhan was a post modern day prophet. Read his prediction of the internet from 1962, "The next medium, whatever it is it may be the extension of consciousness will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data
Robert's Db2
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
That looks like a pretty simple question, doesn't it? I mean, if I were asking about maximum table space size, you'd be able to answer, really quickly, with "64 GB for a non-partitioned table space, 128 TB for a non-LOB partitioned table space," right? Asking about maximum size for an index doesn't make the question that much harder, does it? Or does it?
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
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
On September 28, 2011, a federal court in Illinois held that West Publishing Company (“West”) had not violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (“DPPA”) by reselling driver’s license information obtained from state DMVs. The court held that (1) the DPPA creates a federal private right of action permitting individuals like the plaintiffs to bring their class action suit, but (2) the lower court’s dismissal for failure to state a claim was proper.
CGI
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Blurring the lines between work and play. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 09/12/2011 - 08:00. Last weekend I watched my friend’s 2-year-old son swipe through her iPhone to find his favourite video clip. I realised then just how much the future of business applications will need to change in order to keep the future generation of iBabies engaged. Game dynamics have long been used to build loyalty in brands and to encourage behavioural trends.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
This is what users who are not logged in see on the home page of Google. Clearly, folks at Google would very much like you to sign up for Google+. There's a lot more to say on this subject, but I'm on the road. Just wanted to capture this for posterity. Google+ is a major play by the company to put digital mortar between all of its offerings, and create a new sense of what the brand *means* - far more than search.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Kevin Mitnicks’ exciting ‘Ghost in the Wires’ book is fundamentally a memoir of solo social engineering capers; is the modern ’social’ web vulnerable to the few controlling the many in the style of the East German STASI?
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Daradiction
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
It’s long (over 3 hours) but covers Bucky’s story and lots of insights.
Robert's Db2
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
DB2 for z/OS query CPU parallelism (hereinafter referred to simply as "query parallelism"), introduced with DB2 Version 4 i n the mid-1990s, enables DB2 to split a query into multiple tasks that can execute concurrently on a mainframe server. The primary benefit of query parallelism is improved performance from an elapsed time perspective (query parallelism tends to increase statement execution CPU time somewhat -- this because DB2 needs to evaluate a candidate statement to determine whether or
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
Hunton & Williams announces that Rosemary Jay, formerly head of the privacy practice at Pinsent Masons and the former head of the legal team at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, will join the firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice in October. Ms. Jay will be based in the firm’s London office. As a senior lawyer, Ms. Jay will bring more than 20 years of data protection experience to Hunton & Williams, enhancing both the firm’s renowned privacy practice and its Centre for Info
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
( image ) Recently I was in conversation with a senior executive at a major Internet company, discussing the role of the news cycle in our industry. We were both bemoaning the loss of consistent "second day" story telling - where a smart journalist steps back, does some reporting, asks a few intelligent questions of the right sources, and writes a longer form piece about what a particular piece of news really means.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
Thomas J. Watson , legendary chief of IBM during its early decades and the Bill Gates of his time, has oft been quoted - and derided - for stating, in 1943, that "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Whether he actually said this quote is in dispute, but it's been used in hundreds of articles and books as proof that even the richest men in the world (which is what Watson was for a spell) can get things utterly wrong.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
It's been a while since I've said this, but I'll say it again: Google is a media company, and at some point, most media companies get pretty deep into the Making Original Content business. With the acquisition of Zagat * Google has clearly indicated it's going to play in a space it once left to the millions of partners who drove value in its search and advertising business.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Enterprises often appear to be like rocks - never changing. The pace of global change socially & technologically is increasingly catching out sedentary firms who fail to evolve, but what are their options?
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
Earlier this year I posted about an idea we've come up with to create a new "data layer" on top of last year's popular "Points of Control" map. We created this map to visualize the theme of the Web 2 Summit conference, which is coming up again in a few weeks. As you can see from the map, we've visualized eight key Internet players as cities, with each of the buildings representing storehouses of key data types.
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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
From time to time I have the honor of contributing to a content series underwritten by one of FM's marketing partners. It's been a while since I've done it, but I was pleased to be asked by HP to contribute to their Input Output site. I wrote on the impact of location - you know I've been on about this topic for nearly two years now. Here's my piece.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
T oday kicks off my annual postings on folks I'll be in interviewing for the Web 2 Summit. Every year I seek your input, every year you help me get smarter, and I thank you for that. The Web 2 Summit (to which all readers of this site are invited) kicks off Oct. 17th with Mark Pincus , a fellow I've known for over a decade, since his days at Freeloader, Support.com, and Tribe.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
I could not make Twitter's press event today, but I did get a chance to sit with CEO Dick Costolo (the Web 2 Summit dinner speaker this year) yesterday afternoon, and got a chance to do a deep dive on today's news. I'll write up more on that as soon as I can, but the recap: 100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out what’s happening in the world right now.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
On September 19, 2011, Privacy Piracy host Mari Frank interviewed Lisa J. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, on KUCI 88.9 FM radio in Irvine, California. In the interview, Ms. Sotto discussed critical current privacy and data security issues, including lessons learned from the recent data breaches, the regulatory framework in the U.S. and EU, and expected legislative changes in the privacy arena globally.
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Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
On September 22, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved three separate bills that would establish a national data breach notification standard. Because the bills were approved on a party-line vote, and several other data breach bills currently are under consideration by other Senate committees, the prospects for these three bills in the full Senate are uncertain.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
On September 21, 2011, the board of the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) elected Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin as its new Chair, following Alex Türk’s resignation which he officially tendered at the board meeting. Ms. Falque-Pierrotin is a graduate of the National School of Administration ( l’École Nationale d’Administration ) and the Paris School of Business Management ( l‘École des Hautes Études Commerciales ).
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
On June 17, 2011, the National Assembly of the Republic of Angola passed Law 22/11 on Personal Data Protection. The omnibus privacy legislation applies to the automated and non-automated processing of personal data by controllers based or operating in Angola, or subject to, or using equipment governed by, Angola’s laws. Some highlights of the law are listed below.
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