John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 15, 2011

I posted earlier about my conversation with Matt , from that post: When WordPress.com was split off into the for-profit company, many were concerned it would quickly become clogged with ads, but Mullenweg and his partners have been extremely careful in how they've introduced marketing into the community. Experiments include FoodPress , EcoPressed , and others in partnership with my company, Federated Media , as well as one-off sponsorships with Microsoft around IE9, and some clever use of Google

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 15, 2011

MarkLogic are an interesting and rapidly growing company in the enterprise space right now:Â essentially they replace the relational database model in ways that make their next generation purpose built tools fit your unstructured data. Their servers coral all the heterogeneous information companies create to index everything they see, pulling together information in context.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 13, 2011

First of all, if your organization uses DB2 for z/OS, I hope that you have a DB2 monitor on the system. While several of the DB2 DISPLAY commands provide information that's useful for monitoring activity on a DB2 subsystem (a favorite of mine is -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(ACTIVE) DETAIL), for an in-depth view into what's going on you really want the capabilities of a monitor tool at your disposal.

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Elie

MARCH 8, 2011

Since I started doing research on CAPTCHA security two years ago, I have relentlessly collected samples of all the different schemes I have encountered. In this blog post, I want to share with you five of the most crazy, funny, and interesting schemes I collected.

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Daradiction

MARCH 13, 2011

Presenting to the 2500+ partners at the Esri Partner Conference was another milestone for me. I was able to speak from the heart about our vision to transform civic engagement.The positive feedback was humbling and encouraging. What seems to be capturing folks imagination is our BIG vision and our strategy of building products for the mobile and web that take the friction out of the of the process.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 30, 2011

Google today did something smart in social - they offered a human way to do something they had already offered - the ability to indicate your approval of a search result. Previously, you could push a result up or down, but that action was not social in nature. Now you can "+1" a search result, so as to indicate the result was good and/or valuable to you.

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 6, 2011

Working with international company workforces I’m often struck by the sheer diversity of individuals across cultures, age groups and skill sets who are confident in their ability to communicate and collaborate well. There seems to be a personality type that has a huge appetite for learning and using ever more frequent waves of new technology [.

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JKevinParker

MARCH 4, 2011

Yay, my new box of books from Amazon have arrived! I bought several Wrox Press "Professional" books on SharePoint 2010 and ASP.NET so I can continue my skill development in those technologies. After my work with a large oil and gas services company as their Enterprise Content Manager, I am continuing down the SharePoint road rather than building CMS solutions from scratch (for this season at least).

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Scary Beasts Security

MARCH 5, 2011

This is fixed in the recently released Foxit PDF Reader v4.3.1.0218. That release is marked as an important security update , although this file bug is not mentioned. Recently, I've been playing around with the various JavaScript APIs available in various different PDF readers. In case you wanted to do the same, I made some little tools, including a simple one to execute PDF-based JS via an URL: [link] The serious bug I found in Foxit PDF Reader permits arbitrary files to be written with arbitra

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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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Daradiction

MARCH 13, 2011

Presenting to the 2500+ partners at the Esri Partner Conference was another milestone for me. I was able to speak from the heart about our vision to transform civic engagement.The positive feedback was humbling and encouraging. What seems to be capturing folks imagination is our BIG vision and our strategy of building products for the mobile and web that take the friction out of the of the process.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 31, 2011

A new French law containing several key amendments to the French Data Protection Act and creating a new public authority referred to as the “ Defender of Rights ” ( Loi n°2011-334 du 29 mars 2011 relative au Défenseur des droits , or the “Law”) came into effect on March 30, 2011. The Defender of Rights, whose role is to defend civil rights and liberties, to promote children’s rights and to fight against discrimination, also will serve as a member of the CNIL’s plenary committee.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 16, 2011

( image ) I flew to Detroit today, and thankfully Delta had wifi. Since I'll be speaking at a GM conference later in the week, and the fine folks from Pandora will be there, among others, I went and checked in on the site, which I'll admit I haven't visited in some time (I still consume music the old fashioned way - I buy CDs and rip them to iTunes).

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Kaizen (æ¹å) is a Japanese term meaning “change for the better&# , referring to a philosophy and practices that focus on ‘continuous improvement’ of processes in manufacturing, engineering, supporting business processes and people management. In its purest form it’s a daily process, the purpose of which goes beyond simple productivity improvement with its ability to cross [.

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 31, 2011

Sharepoint 2010 is now a credible platform player for collaboration and business social networking. The larger challenge: Changing user perceptions of what the tools are for, and what you can do with them.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 23, 2011

I love that Facebook is testing real time conversational advertising. In short, the idea is that the right ad shows up on someone's Facebook page when they declare some intention. As the Ad Age coverage puts it: Users who update their status with "Mmm, I could go for some pizza tonight," could get an ad or a coupon from Domino's, Papa John's or Pizza Hut.With real-time delivery, the mere mention of having a baby, running a marathon, buying a power drill or wearing high-heeled shoes is transforme

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 18, 2011

This one has bugged me for some time, but I've not had the time to write it. Now that I'm on a plane for the next four hours, and it has Wifi, I can finally get around to bitching out loud about the photo below: '. Now this photo was widely discussed when it was released by the White House, a few weeks ago. Folks speculated on who the people were that we couldn't see (the woman with her back to us?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 16, 2011

It was fun to open last week's event with Robert Stephens, who has grown Geek Squad from 2 people to more than 20,000 in the past 15 years. Highlights include his view of advertising ("a tax for poor products") and his confirmation that yes, every Best Buy employee will, in fact, get a tablet sometime soon.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 20, 2011

I've agreed to be a judge in Intel's Visual Life contest, the details of which can be found here. Intel has been a partner and supporter of both my work as well as Federated's for as long as I can remember, and I was honored to join my former partner Chas Edwards, among many others, as a judge of the content. The contest invites folks to upload visuals of their life - either photos or videos - and will have HP prizes in multiple countries for four different categories.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 30, 2011

Today I spoke at Sony HQ in front of some Pretty Important Folks, so I wanted to be smart about Sony's offerings lest anything obviously uninformed slip out of my mouth. To prepare I did a bunch of Google searches around Sony and its various products. Many of these searches are what I call "head end" searches - a lot of folks are searching for the terms I put in, and they are doubly important to Google (and its advertising partners) because they are also very commercial in nature (not in my case

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

If you were to write a brief history of Twitter, its zenith might prove to be surprisingly similar to San Francisco’s summer of love, 3 months in 1967 when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. I live a few blocks away from that area, which is still a tourist attraction - I [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 7, 2011

(cross posted from the FM Blog ) In just a few days I'll be welcoming 200 or so digital marketers to Signal Austin , the second edition of FM's Signal conference series - regional, "mini" versions of our highly-acclaimed annual New York event. Our first Signal - based in LA - focused on content marketing. I'm proud to say it was both oversold and very well received.

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 14, 2011

Google announced deals and checkin incentives last week in Austin, I was the first to speak to Marissa live on stage.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 28, 2011

I've fallen down in my promise to RSS readers out there (all 250K+ of you). I told you I'd post summaries of my Signal work each week, and it's been more like each month. Well, here's an attempt to rectify my failure, below, the past seven Signals. I'll try to do this more often. Monday Signal: The Moral Corporation? Friday Signal: TGIF, no? Thursday Signal: Yahoo's Not Done Searching; Why Color Matters.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 8, 2011

On Thursday at Signal Austin , and then again on Friday at SXSWi , I'll be having an onstage conversation with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg , who continues to be the driver of the Wordpress community. WordPress is a unique platform - Matt works for Automattic , a for profit company that owns the rights to the hosted version of WordPress, at wordpress.com.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 22, 2011

Look at these two headlines coming off my IWantMedia feed this morning. Sheesh. Talk about Points of Control. we forgot to put the lawyers' offices on the map.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 10, 2011

I'm a bit late posting this, but the rest of the day is great, so here you go! Video clips at Ustream. Enjoy!

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 30, 2011

On March 30, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Google agreed to settle charges that it used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy promises to consumers when it launched its social network, Google Buzz, in 2010. According to the FTC’s complaint (main document, exhibits), Google led Gmail users to believe that they could choose whether or not they wanted to join Google Buzz.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 28, 2011

On March 28, 2011, the Briar Group, LLC, owner and operator of several Boston-area bars and restaurants, reached a settlement with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley regarding the breach of “tens of thousands” of consumers’ payment card information. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts Superior Court alleging that in April 2009 hackers gained access to the Briar Group’s computer systems and misappropriated customer data by installing malcode which was not removed

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