John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

'The post Ubiquitous Video: Why We Need a Robots.txt For the Real World appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last night I had an interesting conversation at a small industry dinner. Talk turned to Google Glass, in the context of Snapchat and other social photo sharing apps. Everyone at the table agreed: it was inevitable – whether it be Glass, GoPro, a button in your clothing or some other form factor – personalized, “always on” streaming of images will be ubiquitous.

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Robert's Db2

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

To understand how DB2 work is handled in a z/OS system, you need to have some understanding of the tasks used to manage that work. Here, "tasks" doesn't refer to things done or to be done. It refers instead to the control blocks used to represent, for dispatching purposes, application and system processes in a z/OS LPAR. I have found that several misconceptions related to DB2 for z/OS workload processing are rooted in misunderstandings of the tasks behind the workload.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'We need a clear out of dotcom era style hype and froth in order to better focus on building next generation digital enterprises.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements. The following features of the law are of particular significance: The law applies only to the processing of personal data in commercial transactions (in effect, private sector transactions, though not including credit reporting a

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

CMOs and CTOs should play nice. Anonymous. Fri, 11/22/2013 - 00:48. Chief Marketing Officers and Chief Technology Officers need to play nice to maximise the benefits that the Digital world offers. In the Digital world in which we now live where we are constantly in touch with everyone and everything in our lives, Marketers have found they are in a position to, and are also expected to do more than they could previously.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

'The post Nearly 30 Years In Less Than an Hour appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Pinch me: Last week I gave a “distinguished” lecture in Engineering at Berkeley. It was an honor to do so – I don’t really see myself as distinguished in any academic sense – and certainly not when it comes to engineering.

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Robert's Db2

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

A few months ago, I posted an entry to this blog on the subject of "moving queries to data," the idea being that when data to be analyzed for decision support purposes originates in a DB2 for z/OS database (as a great deal of the world's corporate and governmental data does), a very good case can be made for analyzing that data on its platform of origin -- System z -- as opposed to copying and moving the data to a different platform for querying and reporting.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'We need a clear out of dotcom era style hype and froth in order to better focus on building next generation digital enterprises.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

On November 15, 2013, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report (the “Report”) finding that the current federal statutory privacy scheme contains “gaps” and “does not fully reflect” the Fair Information Practice Principles (“FIPPs”). The Report focused primarily on companies that gather and resell consumer personal information, and on the use of consumer personal information for marketing purposes.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Where to start with Business Benefits Realisation Management. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 11/12/2013 - 23:10. Try searching the Internet for information on business benefits management and there’s no end to what useful information you can find. Yet, with so much information freely available and with management frameworks requiring it as best practice, why then do businesses still fail to adopt it?

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The hotly anticipated Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) was finally enforced on 15 November 2013. Along with other related […].

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

'The post Twitter Ads Are Getting, Um, More Noticeable appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Two of my favorite companies in the world are Twitter and American Express. I have literally dozens of good pals at both. So this is said with love (and a bit more pointedly at Twitter than Amex, which is just one of many advertisers I’ve encountered in the situation described below.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

'The post else 11/25: The Collective Hallucination of Currency appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, bitcoin seems to have gotten the thumbs up for innovation despite some shady origins, lots of background details came out about the circumstances that approved NSA dragnet, and privacy is declared an anomaly. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an email news

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

'The post It’s…A Marketing Barge?! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image CBS KPIX ) The #googlebarge meme has taken a very strange turn. A rather welcome diversion from our industry’s endless NSA revelations, the enigmatic barge floating off Treasure Island had been widely assumed to be a floating data center of some kind.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'The post A Metal Gun, Made from Digital Bits appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. One of the artifacts we’re considering for our book is the 3D printer – not only the MakerBot version, but all types of “bits to atoms” kinds of conversions. The advances in the field are staggering – it is now possible to print human tissue , for example.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

'The post More than 200,000 Minutes of Engagement, and Counting appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Some of you may recall “ Behind the Banner ,” a visualization of the programmatic adtech ecosystem that I created with The Office for Creative Research and Adobe back in May. It was my attempt at explaining the complexities of a world I’ve spent several years engaged in, but often find confounding.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

'The post else 11.11: “You can’t let the algorithms take over” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last week there was a lot to say about Twitter and bitcoin, and the Guardian offered some reflections on what the NSA revelations mean to the average Joe. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an email newsletter or through RSS.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'The post else 11.18: “We can see it, we can feel it, because we’re already almost there.” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, we talk about rights to data, nuance in the tech debate, and some interesting developments in the wearable sensor world. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed, either as an email newsletter or through RSS.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

On November 27, 2013, the European Commission published an analysis of the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework, as well as other EU-U.S. data transfer agreements. The analysis includes the following documents: A communication on rebuilding trust in EU-U.S. data flows ; An analysis of the functioning of Safe Harbor , including FAQs ; A mid-term report on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (“TFTP”) prepared jointly with the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) invalid because the legislation interfered with the right to freedom of expression in the labor context under Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the “Canadian Charter”). The case arose in the context of a labor union representing employees of a casino in Alberta.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

As reported by Bloomberg BNA , Mexico’s Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (“IFAI”) recently issued data security guidelines that implement the security provisions of the Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties ( Reglamento de la Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares ).

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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.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Brazilian lawmakers, including José Eduardo Cardozo, the Minister of Justice of Brazil, and Ideli Salvatti, the Secretariat of Institutional Relations, held several consensus-building meetings with party leaders over the past two weeks to reach a voting agreement on the Marco Civil da Internet (“Marco Civil”), a draft bill introduced in the Brazilian Congress in 2011.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

On November 4, 2013, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, which is the Chinese regulatory and administrative authority for the insurance sector, issued the Interim Measures for the Management of the Authenticity of Information of Life Insurance Customers (the “Measures”). The Measures require life insurance companies and their agents to ensure the authenticity of personal data of life insurance policy holders.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

On November 19, 2013, Hunton & Williams’ Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group hosted the second webcast in its Hunton Global Privacy Update series. The program focused on the latest updates regarding the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“Proposed Regulation”), including a discussion of the European Parliament’s recent approval of its Compromise Text for the Proposed Regulation.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The Luxembourg data protection authority ( Commission nationale pour la protection des donées , “CNPD”) has stated that it will not investigate complaints relating to the alleged involvement of Microsoft Luxembourg (“Microsoft”) and Skype Software S.a.r.l. and Skype Communications S.a.r.l. (collectively, “Skype”) in the PRISM surveillance program. The PRISM surveillance program involves the transfer of EU citizens’ data to the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

On November 12, 2013, two companies (the “Defendants”) that provide consumer background reports to third parties, including criminal record checks agreed to an $18.6 million settlement stemming from allegations that they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) when providing these reports to prospective employers. The plaintiffs alleged that the Defendants, in violation of the FCRA, failed to (1) provide consumers with copies of their consumer reports prior to providing the reports to pr

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

On November 13, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it denied a proposal submitted by AssertID, Inc. for a mechanism to obtain verifiable parental consent in accordance with the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”) that came into effect July 1, 2013. The COPPA Rule requires operators of certain websites and online services to obtain a parent’s consent before collecting personal information online from a child under the age of 13.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

On November 13, 2013, Google entered into a $17 million settlement agreement with the attorneys general from 37 states and the District of Columbia related to allegations that the company bypassed users’ cookie-blocking settings on Apple’s Safari browser in 2011 and 2012. The settlement requires Google to refrain from bypassing cookie controls in the future and requires Google to maintain a page on its site informing users about cookies and how to manage them.

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