John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

( image ) Today I landed from a trip to the world of the non-tech obsessed (PA and OH) to find my newsfeed was full of speculation that Google MUST buy Twitter , or be damned to obscurity in a race its already losing to Facebook. Not so fast. Here's my simple reasoning for why Google won't buy Twitter: Twitter won't sell. Those who decide whether Twitter goes to Google pretty much come down to a handful of folks: Founders Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone, with COO Dick Costolo and Twitt

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

nGenera relaunched their company and software packages this week, renaming themselves ‘Moxie Software‘ (with ‘nGenera Insights‘, their research and consulting arm, continuing as a sub brand). We’re in the thick of the fall conference season now, and this announcement was probably timed to coincide with Jive Software’s ‘Jive World‘ social business customer conference.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) has indicated that UK law firm ACS:Law could face a maximum penalty of £500,000 following a major data breach. Personal information, including names and addresses, of over 8,000 Sky broadband subscribers and 400 PlusNet users was made publicly available following an apparent attack on ACS:Law’s website.

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Scary Beasts Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

A few weeks back, I published a demo that uses a serious Internet Explorer cross-origin violation to permit a malicious web page to force the visitor to make unwarranted tweets: [link] The post was light on technical details of how the attack works, so they will be filled in below. In addition, I'll quickly take care of the FAQ: Q) Does this attack affect earlier versions of Internet Explorer, such as IE6?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It's another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box. It's not that Apple hates the web, it's just that Apple is better than the web. Apple doesn't need it. It seems Apple has it all figured out. I am sure Ping will get traction because it'll be fun, and if it truly helps folks discover more music, so much the better for all (especially iTunes sales).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Earlier this week I mused out loud about retargeting, suggesting that perhaps it's time for marketers to not just chase folks around the web in hopes they might irritate us into submission , but rather offer us the chance to politely say "Not right now, thanks.". One of Searchblog's readers turned out to be Josh McFarland, CEO of remarketing startup TellApart.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Google today introduced what many are calling a major evolution in search interface today, sparking a landslide of commentary about the impact on SEO, mobile, competitors, search share, revenue, you name it. It's a lot to digest, and as much as I'd like to have a definitive statement on Google's move to "instant search," I don't. Yet. I prefer to use it for a while, and think on it a bit more.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Google is 12 today , as Sept. 27 marks the anniversary of the company's actual incorporation. Of course the company has roots prior to the date, but ya gotta pick a date. Happy birthday Google, as they say in China, may you live in interesting times.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

It’s ten years since the dot com bubble began to seriously deflate; the financial climax had its high water mark on March 10, 2000 when the NASDAQ peaked at 5132.52. By September of that year people were starting to feel a lot less financially irrationally exuberant and started heading for the [.

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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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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

A recording of a Skype conversation with Bill Kutik, the eminent independent Human Resources technology analyst who co-chairs the upcoming September 29 annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago. As chair of the HR track for the upcoming November Enterprise 2.0 conference I wanted to tap Bills’ expertise, and to discuss the state of the market.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I'm very proud to announce the initial 2010 Web 2.0 Summit program. You can see the lineup on the Summit site here. Our 2010 theme Points of Control , helped us create a lineup that is truly remarkable, full of industry titans and insurgents alike. Alongside policy leaders such as Julius Genachowski , Chairman of the FCC, we'll hear from the Internet's most powerful CEOs: Google's Eric Schmidt , perhaps the most active player in our points of control map -- defending the company's home turf of s

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Way back in January, I predicted (see #8) that Microsoft's Bing would overtake Yahoo in share to become #2 in search. Today, at least one measurement service seems to have validated that claim, which at the time was a bit far-fetched, given the nearly seven point gap in share between the two companies. These figures do not consider the Yahoo/Bing's search deal.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Struggling to find a consistent voice online, or not sure about how to achieve appropriate language usage? Here’s Chris Barr discussing his Yahoo Style Guide, a book and online resource which helps demystify how to communicate effectively and consistently in this digital age. The Twitter era of ever faster and more fragmented real time information nuggets, [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Fred points out apps and services that are " Mobile First Web Second." I don't like the distinction. To me, it's all the web. It's this kind of thinking that leads to Wired's ill-considered proclamation that "the Web is dead." (I debate that in the second half of this thread here ). What, after all, is the web, really? To me, it's a set of standards that allow for interconnection, sharing of experience and data, navigation between experiences, and a level playing field for anyone to create value

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Comscore's search results are out for August , and unlike Nielsen , they do not show Bing as beating Yahoo. On the contrary, Yahoo gained the most ground, Google lost share (by not growing as quickly), and Microsoft grew only slightly.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

One of the best cards in AOL's difficult hand has been its search deal with Google, which was up for renewal this year. This morning the two companies announced (ahead of a December deadline) that they were staying together, though I can only imagine the folks at Bing didn't make it easy. At the moment, only three parties know what Google paid - Google, AOL, and Microsoft, which knows at least what Google must have topped to win the deal.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

For those of you in RSS land who often ask, here are last week's Signal roundups - a daily dose of what I'm reading and thinking about each day, posted on the FM site, usually late at night. You can get the RSS feed here , or get it via email here. Monday Signal: This Is Only An Eye Test. Friday Signal: All Is True, And Quite Fictional. Thurs. Signal: Bubble, No Bubble, Toil and Trouble.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Back in the day, it was news when Google used its massive home page distribution to push its new Chrome browser. Google putting ads on its home page?! A big deal, even if they were for Google's own products. It spoke to an ongoing creep inside the company of leveraging its position in search to help it win in other markets, and to some, it felt like a violation of Google's own principles in the process.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

David Vladeck, the head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, shared his vision for consumer privacy protection with an audience at the IAPP’s Privacy Academy on September 30, 2010. Mr. Vladeck began by reminding the audience that the FTC is aggressively enforcing on privacy and data security matters, having brought 29 cases to date.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The United States Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently joined forces with privacy authorities from eleven other countries to launch the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (“GPEN”), which aims to promote cross-border information sharing and enforcement of privacy laws. On September 21, 2010, GPEN unveiled its new website, www.privacyenforcement.net , designed to educate the public about the network.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (generally referred to as “Convention 108”), enacted in 1981, is the only legally-binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. The Convention is also of fundamental importance in providing the underlying legal framework for instruments such as the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46.

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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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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

On September 15, 2010, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a $100,000 settlement with EchoMetrix, a developer of parental control software that monitors children’s online activity. The settlement comes one year after the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) alleged in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission that EcoMetrix was deceptively collecting and marketing children’s information.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has rejected a defendant’s argument that the Wiretap Act’s prohibition on interception of communications applies only to an acquisition that is contemporaneous with the communication. In United States v. Szymuszkiewicz , No. 07-CR-171 (7th Cir. Sept. 9, 2010) , the defendant faced criminal charges under the Wiretap Act for having implemented an automatic forwarding rule in his supervisor’s Outlook email program that caused the workplace

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The United States Congress is currently considering several bills addressing cybersecurity issues. Below are brief summaries of four such bills. The Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense (“GRID”) Act. The GRID Act was passed by the House of Representatives on June 9, 2010. This bill would amend the Federal Power Act to grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) authority to issue emergency orders requiring critical infrastructure facility operators to take actions necessary t

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

On August 18, 2010, the Connecticut Insurance Department (the “Department”) issued Bulletin IC-25 , which requires entities subject to its jurisdiction to notify the Department in writing of any “information security incident” within five calendar days after an incident is identified. In addition to providing detailed procedures and information to be included in the notification, the Bulletin states that the Department “will want to review, in draft form, any communications proposed to be made”

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

It's been nearly a month since Demand filed its S1 , and I promised you all a longer look after my initial posting. Here are some thoughts now that I've had a chance to digest the document. A caveat: I know Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt well, and consider him a friend. And one of his investors, Oak, is an investor in my company, Federated Media. However, neither Oak nor Richard participated in the preparation of this post.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

For those of you who haven't signed up for the Signal newsletter (shame on you, really), it's my daily roundup of what's happening in the world of media, marketing, and platforms. You can get it via RSS or email here (sign up for the newsletter in upper right hand corner). As I do from time to time, here's the last week or so for all you RSS readers.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

On September 2, 2010, police in New Zealand issued a statement to confirm that there was no evidence Google committed a criminal offense in relation to the data it collected from unsecured WiFi networks during the Street View photography capture exercise. The case has now been referred back to the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner. A spokesperson from the New Zealand police force took the opportunity to underline the need for Internet users to make sure that security measures are properly imple

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