December, 2012

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Solar storms to peak in 2013

Collaboration 2.0

The biggest solar storm on record in 1859 brought down US and European telegraph systems and lit up the world sky with Aurorae; a similar storm today would wreak havoc with power grids and fry delicate electronics. Your cloud infrastructure platforms are particularly vulnerable.

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As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) There’s a hubbub in the press this week about Google employing a “ Double Irish – Dutch Sandwich ” tactic to funnel profits from Europe over to Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax. Reuters reports that the company saved around $2 billion in taxes by employing the structure, which, as far as I can tell, is perfectly legal.

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DB2 for z/OS: Clearing Up a Native SQL Procedure Misconception

Robert's Db2

A few days ago I received a question that I believe reflects a rather widely held misconception about DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures. In the interest of clearing the air, I'll provide in this entry the information that I communicated to my question-asking friend. Native SQL procedures were introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS in new-function mode (or with DB2 10 in new-function mode, for those organizations that migrated or are migrating to DB2 10 from DB2 V8).

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Senubo - heavy industry software influenced by social software

ChiefTech

While you may already be familiar with some of the leading enterprise microblogging platforms (e.g. Yammer), none of these have a particular industry or process focus. Senubo on the other hand is "an online, mobile communications platform for heavy industry.". Senubo have created some storyboards to help illustrate a couple of industrial use cases: To see what Senubo looks like, watch this video from about the 1m 12s mark.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Online Digital Reputation Management is a Requirement for Marketing Strategy & PR in DC

Interactive Information Management

Nearly every business conducting business in the DC or Northern Virginia area (and elsewhere) is finding that more and more effort is required to manage their online reviews and feedback. Particularly for local or regional businesses, the very first thing online consumers do in considering to visit or buy, is to seek out online reviews, search for online reputation or trust signals, and canvass their social media networks for trusted advice and opinion.

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Mobile is eating the world

Collaboration 2.0

Mary Meeker's slide vividly depicts the relentless march of mobile OS into the heart of desktop QWERTY keyboard land.

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For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) Wow. That’s about the sum of my initial reaction to this story from ATD: Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS. The wow isn’t that Microsoft is trying to reduce the 30% cut Apple takes on every dollar that flows through the iOS ecosystem.

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DB2 for z/OS: Clone Tables and "Active Versioning"

Robert's Db2

A DB2 for z/OS DBA contacted me a few days ago and posed a seemingly simple question, the answer to which ended up being a little more involved than might be expected. The DBA's query: how can one alter a table that has a clone? The specific need in this case was to add a column to a table for which a clone had been created. As is true of other ALTER TABLE operations, addition of a table column cannot be accomplished while the clone relationship exists.

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Two new Australian case studies from Microsoft

ChiefTech

Some new Australian case studies from across the Microsoft family: Woods Bagot - Microsoft SharePoint 2013 pilot. NSC Group - Using a free Yammer network. (if the article is paywalled, try this link (PDF) provided by NSC Group). A quote from Woods Bagot: “With the addition of the new social features, we can use SharePoint to help us quickly achieve a more engaging intranet.”.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Employers Must Update Notice Form Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

Hunton Privacy

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : Beginning January 1, 2013, employers must issue an updated notice form to applicants and employees when using criminal background information under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. For years, employers intending to obtain and use a criminal background check have issued to the applicant or employee a document titled “ A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act ” at three points in the process: when obtain

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Stronger customer authentication only way to mitigate risk of bank fraud

Dark Reading

Sitting at the core of every financial transaction is trust. Without it, or worse, relying on unvalidated resources like personal identifiable information (PII) to identify customers, puts every banking transaction at risk. The recent article, “$850 Million Scheme Exploited Facebook: Authentication, Secure Browsing Would Have Reduced Losses,” illustrates just how important customer authentication is.

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US school shootings digital witch hunt

Collaboration 2.0

The glare of the public spotlight can bring out the worst in our digital connections: the same can be true n the dark side of the workforce rat race.

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Retargeting Is Just Phase One

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Retargeting Is Just Phase One appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Toward the end of the year, annual predictions come out (I’ve been guilty of this for nearly ten years now). I was perusing these from Triggit founder Zach Coelius, and his ninth one hit me right between the eyes: Retargeting will be taken out of the tactic box marketers have been myopically placing it into, and instead they will recognize that retargeting is simply the first step to a sophisticated

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Business Practice Exchange 2012: Mike Thuman's feedback

Preservica

Another great Business Practice Exchange session was held early this month, this time in Annapolis hosted by the Maryland State Archives. Efforts related to the SERI initiative wove themselves throughout the meeting as talks of self assessments turned toward education and program planning. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives talked about their ISO/TRAC test -audit and then shared the platform with us on discussing ways to lower the barrier in preserving electronic records.

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Apple OS X Server Upgrade Update

JKevinParker

In my last post, I ranted about Apple canceling my order for Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server without telling me, and how they said it could be another 6 weeks before I got my upgrade if it came at all. It did come almost immediately. It must have shipped shortly after my call to Apple. Now, I have installed Snow Leopard Server only to find out that my Xserve model cannot be upgraded to Mountain Lion.

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Article 29 Working Party Announces Launch of Binding Corporate Rules for Processors

Hunton Privacy

On December 21, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party issued a press release announcing the launch of Binding Corporate Rules (“BCRs”) for processors effective January 1, 2013. This announcement follows the Article 29 Working Party’s adoption of a Working Document ( WP 195 ) on June 6, 2012, which set forth requirements for BCRs for processors, and an application form for submitting BCRs for processors issued on September 17, 2012.

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Can we afford the risk to our businesses of not leveraging diverse talent?

CGI

Can we afford the risk to our businesses of not leveraging diverse talent? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Wed, 12/12/2012 - 07:00. Do you think that diversity should be at the heart of the talent agenda? Significant research has demonstrates how a diverse workforce can add value by achieving improved financial results, developing new customer relationships and developing new products and services.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Too many talking shops, not enough action

Collaboration 2.0

Google+ communities is good technology, but adds to the problem of too many digital locations and fragmentation of information.

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With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why?

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Guess what? This guy was big this year. Really! I think readers know that on balance, I’m a fan of Google. I recently switched to the Nexus 4 (more coming on that front as I settle into really using it). I believe the company has a stronger core philosophy than many of its rivals.

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Cloud workshop

Preservica

This was a great session. The major theme was that the cloud is easy, it works and even when Amazon went down, it was not horrific. Through the course of developing and working with cloud-based solutions for the purpose of digital object preservation, we have learned some very practical lessons. There are many advantages to be gained from leveraging cloud services, but along with the benefits come additional considerations.

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Leveson: Proposals for New Data Privacy rules in the UK

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The Leveson Inquiry recently published its findings into UK press regulation. However Leveson also commented on the UK data privacy […].

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Congress Approves VPPA Consent Requirement Changes

Hunton Privacy

On December 18, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 6671 , a bill that would amend the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) consent requirements for disclosing consumers’ viewing information. The Senate approved the bill without changes on December 20, 2012. The bill would make it easier for companies to develop innovative technologies for the sharing of consumers’ video viewing habits.

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The Campaign for Real Analytics

CGI

The Campaign for Real Analytics. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Wed, 12/12/2012 - 07:00. The surge of interest in “big data” has swung our telescopes towards analytics … but we’ve yet to adjust the focus to see what really matters. I’m going to try something a little unprecedented in this article. I’d like to persuade you that we should divert our collective enthusiasm for “Big Data”, and focus instead on the enormous value of carefully considered analytics.

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Integrate cloud app activity streams to improve productivity: Hojoki, Busy Flow

ChiefTech

While the cloud has simplified some aspects of managing IT, it has also increased complexity through the number of choices available. The needs (and budgets) of big enterprise, departments and teams within large companies, small-to-medium size business and freelancers are also all very different, which means there is room for lots of different solutions.

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Locked and Bloated

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Locked and Bloated appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image Vator News ) Companies get big. Companies gain market dominance. Companies slowly pivot from their original values. Companies justify those shifts with nods to shareholder value, or consistent user experience, or inconsistent implementations of their platforms by (former) partners.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Interactive Information Management

Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture A taxonomy of subject areas, from which to develop a prioritized marketing and communications plan to evangelize EA activities within and among US Federal Government organizations and constituents. Any and all feedback is appreciated, particularly in developing and extending this discussion as a tool for use – more information and details are also available.

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One Less iPhone Purchased: Day One With The Nexus

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post One Less iPhone Purchased: Day One With The Nexus appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I finally did it – I slipped the sim from my failing iPhone 4 into a shiny new Google Nexus last night. And damn, the thing just worked. And it’s So. Much. Better. But… there are things I wish it had. I figure I’ll take notes here, so folks can both learn from my experience, as well as tell me what an idiot I am help me out.

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Another Thoughtful Personal Essay: Fragile

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Another Thoughtful Personal Essay: Fragile appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. You know that phenomenon that happens – right after you first notice a pattern, you then start seeing it everywhere? Well, here’s another wonderful personal essay, again by a young(er) author (Nathan Kontny) involved in the tech world, this time about losing a friend with whom he worked.

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