John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 21, 2013

The post Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last year I predicted that Twitter would become a media company. However, I focused mainly on the new “ Discover ” functionality, and I probably should have gone a lot further. In this piece, I intend to. So I’ll start with this: 2013 will be the year Twitter starts to create, curate, and co-create media experiences on top of its platform.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2013

The cult of me continues.data from a survey of US freshmen shows increasing perceptions of being 'above average': Are they deluded or the greatest generation?

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 30, 2013

Self-service checkouts in supermarkets and other retails shop fronts are fascinating on so many levels - from their design to the ethical dilemma of replacing people with machines. Writing recently recently in Computerworld, Patrick Thibodeau reports that while some retailers in the US are installing more self-service technology, others are now removing them.

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Elie

JANUARY 13, 2013

Almost one in five US Internet users report that one of their online accounts had been comprised at some point. That is the result of the study I conducted using Google Consumer Surveys. This a much higher percentage than I imagined and it emphasizes how pervasive account compromises are.

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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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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 22, 2013

With DB2's data sharing capability having been introduced back in the mid-1990s with DB2 for z/OS Version 4, a great many people -- including lots of folks whose organizations do not run DB2 in data sharing mode -- are quite familiar with the technology (for people new to this subject area, I posted, a few years ago, a "What is DB2 Data Sharing?" entry to the blog that I maintained while working as an independent DB2 consultant).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 24, 2013

The post The 140 Character Video Is Six Seconds Long appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Twitter announced its integration of Vine today , and to put not too fine a point on it, the service is, in essence, a way to create a video tweet. If a text tweet = 140 characters, then a video tweet = 6 seconds. More details over at TNW , but this announcement is quite consistent with my post earlier this week: Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2013

Is there too much reliance on software to lead businesses into the future? Strategic thinking should arguably come from within firms, not as purchased generic techniques & enabling tools.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

I co-wrote this piece for Image & Data Magazine in 2004 (PDF), but its still relevant to the question posted by Andrew Wright on LinkedIn : How should great intranets be developed? As a project or as a series of rapid incremental improvements? Or both? (For more see his blog post ). Our recommendation back in 2004 was that we should stop searching for intranet perfection, instead work in a way that is more 'agile': Flexibility and the ability to prioritise are key to success.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 29, 2013

Without the ability to verify the Caller ID or ANI, all customer calls can look the same to call center agents. This a risky proposition for any financial institution that handles thousands of customer calls each day. In other words, if all calls appear the same there’s no way to answer some of the key questions all banks should know about customer calls, such as: Which calls are trustworthy?

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Preservica

JANUARY 29, 2013

We recently attended the CurateGear digital curation symposium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In fact, we had two of our top digital preservation experts, Mark Evans and Mike Thuman attend to participate in the lightening talks and break-out sessions. It’s great to support Helen Tibbo and Cal Lee in bringing this community together to look at technology options in various stages.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 30, 2013

Following up on the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (“ICO’s”) positive reaction to the European Commission’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”), the ICO has now published additional thoughts on the European Commission’s proposed revised data protection framework , reacting to the recent draft report prepared by the rapporteur to the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Jan Philipp Albrecht.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 14, 2013

The post We Are (About to Be) As Gods. Can We Get Used To It? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last month I finished another of my “must read” books - Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves , by George Church and Ed Regis. While the authors don’t veer into the religious, a reader can’t help but ponder the unknown and the supernatural – because the book rather calmly takes a fair amount of what we take for granted as p

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2013

'The future direction of technology needs rests more and more with clients and their ad agencies of record. A showdown is looming between the giant hi tech and and advertising industries.

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 29, 2013

At IBM Connect 2013 (previously known as Lotusphere) this week, they have presented details of the March release of IBM Connections 4.5. Michael Sampson provided some rough but detailed notes about the new features in this release. Scanning the list for the highlights, there is a good spread of user interface, mobile app and back-end improvements. End-users in particular will welcome the new @ mentions and the ability to like within the main activity stream.

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CGI

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Real Value of Bring Your Own. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 01/24/2013 - 07:00. Unsure about adopting “Bring Your Own”? You’re in good company! CIOs should use methods which reliably estimate benefits and costs, so they can make defensible judgements about value …. With CIOs thinking hard about the merits and pitfalls of allowing staff to connect their own devices to the corporate environment, the time seems right to help by providing a summary of our evaluation tools for “Bring Your Own Device

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 8, 2013

Draft Regulations recognize CASL should not apply to “regular business communications” Industry Canada has published long-awaited draft Regulations that would lessen the impact […].

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 30, 2013

On January 22, 2013, the Article 29 Working Party released Opinion 01/2013 (the “Opinion”) on the implementing acts contained in the European Commission’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”). As previously reported , the Working Party has already adopted two Opinions on the Proposed Regulation (Opinion 01/2012 and Opinion 08/2012).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 17, 2013

The post Amazon is Amazin’ Me appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m a fan of Amazon, always have been, though my relationship with the brand has, ironically, never been particularly personal. I don’t feel emotional about Amazon, I feel – transactional. This despite the fact that I have probably spent more on the site than the combined college savings accounts for my three kids (Hi Kids!).

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2013

The future direction of technology needs rests more and more with clients and their ad agencies of record. A showdown is looming between the giant hi tech and and advertising industries.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

I'm no lawyer so this is where I get confused about who is right and wrong around intellectual property, particularly with photos. The Sydney Morning Herald runs a series of articles about photographers intellectual property rights being infringed. Then they inappropriately use a picture that they discovered through Twitter, but didn't actually check the ownership.

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CGI

JANUARY 15, 2013

How can we create a level playing field for diverse talent? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 01/15/2013 - 07:00. Organisations have dominant cultures – ways of working and relating that are most comfortable for the majority of the workforce. The individuals who most represent these dominant cultures can often excel if they have true talent and the ambition.

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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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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 2, 2013

There were two important developments in the U.S. regarding children and mobile technologies. FTC Staff Report On December 10, 2012, […].

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2013

On January 28, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement agreement with CBR Systems, Inc. (“CBR”), an operator of a cord blood bank, which collects personal information about consumers and physicians through its websites and in connection with the provision of its services, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and health information.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 13, 2013

The post Phones! Now With Multitasking! Why Mobile Is About To Have Its Web Revolution. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. While at CES last week, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with four extraordinary publishers – all FM authors. The topic was “2013 Trends” and I got to hear Anand Shimpi (of AnandTech ), Brad McCarthy (of The Next Web ), Elaine Fiolet (of UberGizmo ) and Leander Kahney (from the Cult of Mac ) expound on what they’d seen in Vega

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2013

'Negative viral infection of social networks is an increasing issue: digital cliques can calcify into silos inside companies, and sophisticated communicators can be a force for good or bad.

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 23, 2013

There seems to be a lot of buzz around light-based Internet of Things projects, such as Light by Moore's Cloud. Slightly less ambitious than Moore's Cloud is the Good Night Lamp: I'm actually attracted more to this concept because it supports the idea of ambient awareness communicated through objects in the physical space than as a portal to other Internet of Things applications (which is my perception of Moore's Cloud).

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 9, 2013

I heard the other day from a DB2 for z/OS DBA who communicated to me an interesting story. His organization had recently gotten into development and deployment of native SQL procedures on the mainframe DB2 platform. The native SQL procedures were working as advertised, but the move to utilize this DB2 technology had engendered grumbling on the part of some of the organizations' application programmers.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 2, 2013

The post Predictions From Last Year: How I Did (2012 Edition) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Every year around this time I do two things: First I look back at my predictions from a year ago and grade myself, then I get around to making a new set of predictions. These are often my most popular posts of the year, proving the old magazine saw that the world loves a list.

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