ChiefTech

JANUARY 12, 2009

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. He founded the company “ Content Crew ” in 2006, and is its CEO since this time. This company specializes on the production of podcast, with the focus on audio.

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JANUARY 17, 2009

You may have seen the drama this week around a social media ad agency representative whose negative Twitter message about Memphis, Tennessee was read and responded to by one of his client FedEx’s employees. James Andrews, ‘@keyinfluencer‘ on Twitter, was flying into Fedex global headquarters in Memphis to present on digital media to the worldwide communications [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 4, 2009

Related: 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did. 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. In each of the past five years I've written a predictions post - usually at year's end or by the first of January. This one is late, and I'll admit it's because I found it hard to write.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2009

The Centre for Information Policy Leadership provides the following thoughts on the Obama Administration’s views on privacy: . The themes of President Obama’s inaugural address not only conveyed a strong message to the nation, but reflected current concerns about data governance shared by privacy professionals and policymakers as well. His speech captured the importance of individual responsibility in public and personal life as America faces challenging economic times.

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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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Information Matters

JANUARY 7, 2009

There has been a lot of high profile discussion and commentary recently on the future for print newspapers. Figures from the US and UK seem to show a sector in possibly terminal decline. I have just been looking through the latest ABC figures for UK dailies and it is not a pretty picture. Comparing November 2008 figures with November 2006 shows a drop in circulation across the board.

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 9, 2009

As we all know, the pace of technology change is unstoppable and this weekend marks a historic moment for the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it goes completely cashless this weekend. The Sydney Morning Herald has recorded the stories of the human toll collectors in words , pictures and audio - one of the last operators has spent the last 24 years collecting bridge tolls.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2009

Image: E.M. Ward, The South Sea Bubble&# (1846) Tate Gallery UK David Freeman, who has positive views about disordered individual work practices in his book ‘A Perfect Mess‘, wrote an interesting piece I refer back to a lot in Inc magazine September ‘06 ‘What’s Next: The Idiocy of Crowds‘ …The effectiveness of groups, teamwork, collaboration, and consensus [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 30, 2009

So I write a longish post , thinking out loud, and tweet it. Then as an afterthought, I tweet that my cat was bad today , and I had to punish it. Do I spank the cat, I asked? Well, the response was pretty funny. Twitter is connected to my Facebook account, and most likley the longest comment thread ever on my "status" ensued. Within a minute, I had two status updates: One of my tweets is about the future of publishing, business, culture, the economy.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009, marks the second annual international Data Privacy Day, which brings together a broad coalition of privacy professionals from both the private and public sectors, as well as corporations, academics and policymakers, with the goal of promoting awareness and collaboration on a variety of data privacy issues. A wide variety of events celebrating Data Privacy Day has been scheduled throughout the week across the United States, Canada and the European Union.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 12, 2009

For the past few years, but in particular in the past year, spammers, or one very focused spammer, have been posting bogus comments on Searchblog, hoping to leverage the authority of this community to promote a commerce site called oyuncambazi dot com. Well, here's my response: oyuncambazi are spammers, spam, spam, spaaaaammmmmmers. Oyuncambazi = Spam.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 8, 2009

(This post will be part of a series I'll be writing on print, publishing and journalism. I'm not sure where it's going, but I really do want to Think Out Loud about this stuff.). If you care about journalism, and I certainly fall into that category, then don't feel bad if you're confused. There's been no shortage of contradictory reporting about the state of reporting.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 14, 2009

Google of late has been contracting its contract work force, but today the company announced real layoffs , in its HR group, no less - the folks responsible for hiring. 100 people will be laid off or redeployed, and as SAI notes , it's a very clear sign that the company is feeling what all of us are feeling - a very significant recession. When Google catches a cold, it's a sure bet a lot of other companies have pneumonia, or worse.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 30, 2009

( Second in an ongoing series, part one here ). I've been thinking a lot about the world of "print" lately. I'm not alone. Everywhere I look, another story declares newspapers and magazines dead or dying. I disagree that the essence of what print has stood for will die (in short, storytelling), but I do agree that the structures around that storytelling are ending a lifecycle.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2009

I'm just back from a few days at CES in Las Vegas. The annual Consumer Electronics Show has become a white hot core of the marketing world, certainly for technology, but also now for nearly every major brand. Consumer electronics, after all, is the medium through which brands communicate and converse with consumers. If you care about your brand, you're at the show.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2009

I've been saying this for quite sometime, that you cannot be half pregnant when it comes to marketing - if you do search, you must do branding, and vice versa. Here's yet more proof : Display and search are directly correlated, judging by a Specific Media study of comScore data. Brand- and segment-related searches (for cars, automakers and vehicle classes) jumped by more than 100% in several categories after consumers were exposed to display ads for those brands.Search clickers exposed to displa

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 20, 2009

Image: Shorpy.com At the close of a momentous day in American - and international - politics, it is not hard to actually feel the strong sense that one epoch has ended and another one has begun. The Obama election campaign’s shining jewel has been the brilliantly realized use of online technologies, and like a startup that [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 31, 2009

This morning reports came streaming in that "Google was freaking out." From a Slashdot thread : "It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves. Users trying to visit pages at search results will only be able to proceed via manual manipulation of the search result link to remove the Google click-through (which is also broken).

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2009

There’s a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website’s Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like ZDNet can forget how far ahead of the curve they are: generations who [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 30, 2009

Today is the last day for early registration discounts on this year's Web 2 Summit. The event is slated for Oct. 20-22 in SF , at a new venue. If you went last year, or are an alumus and are on our list, you got an email with a code you can use for the discount, which is significant. If you want to go but don't have that email or code, ping me: jbat at battellemedia dot com, and I'll get you hooked up.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 29, 2009

Yesterday at the NAPTE show TiVo CEO issued a call to action to the television business: get a new business model, or suffer the same fate as the newspaper. I think he's right, and I've got some ideas about what that model should be. I'll be posting more on this, but the short overview is this: Television should respond to the exhaustive knowledge it has of our viewing habits, and create a model that trades value for engagement.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 27, 2009

I wonder if Carol Bartz made this rabbit a condition of her joining - Yahoo beat estimates, despite showing a $300mm+ loss in the fourth quarter. Reports of her first earnings call were generally positive.

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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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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2009

Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary explains why your email may not have got through… …The Obama administration is making the White House feel more like a modern corporation every day: the email servers were down for a couple of hours Monday. Annoying though this must be, one senses a commonality with a typical business problem encountered [.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Best Buy, the retail box store and internet source for electronics, televisions, DVD players, home & car audio, computers, cameras, music, movies, software, games etc is at the cutting edge of modern online technologies and facilitating their use by as many purchase prospects as possible. The embedded video above has various internal talking heads extolling the [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 26, 2009

I wonder what Kevin might say about this random tweet that came out of me: "Is Twitter the logical next step to a Borg hivemind? First books. Then blogs. Then Twitter. Then. Borg ? ". What I was on about was a habit I've notice I'm getting into - I've timeshifted my reading into another (more accelrated) phase. I read Twitter a few times a day, blogs every other day, and print a few times a week.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2009

Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and other insightful books, is also a prolific blogger who is well worth reading. He has posted the fascinating graphic above, attributed to Jessica Hagy - no accompanying text except the title ‘Lonely, scared & Bitter’ and the chart. It’s a great piece of communication suggesting that the path [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 23, 2009

Ad Age does a good job reviewing and comparing Google and Microsoft's earnings. Google posted a 17% increase in revenue in the fourth quarter compared with the year-ago period and, in what appeared to be an attempt to temper expectations for a more difficult first quarter, called that the "easy part.".

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 23, 2009

Google yesterday announced it would offer a repricing program for its options holding employees , a move that acknowledges and addresses the reality that Google's stock has sunk, like most others, well below strike prices. Google plans to take a $460 million charge for the move. The WSJ picks up on the news and offers a perspective (the post is behind a pay wall): options are also meant to align interests with shareholders -- so if the price soars, both benefit.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2009

There are fascinating parallels with the vision and pragmatic realities of rolling out effective corporate collaboration initiatives and the new US leadership’s arrival at the White House this week. The White House has a substantial culture and bureaucracy peculiar to it regardless of its current inhabitants, much as leadership in the corporate C suite changes but [.

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