Daradiction

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Folks over estimate what they can do in a year and under estimate what they can do in ten. No doubt you’d agree how quickly this past decade has flown by. My one regret is that I wasn’t nearly as intentional about the effects I wanted to create. I didn’t find my North Star (community empowerment) until quite recently. As I reflect upon the past decade and get clear about my vision for my life by 2020 there are a few stories that I would like to share with you: Petunia Pickle

IT 93

IT Cloud Risk 93

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 9, 2009

This is a big deal. Facebook is taking the final step to become more like Twitter. Thanks to RWW for pointing it out. I've been traveling and had not had a chance to read the new privacy settings, which state: we'll be recommending that you make available to everyone a limited set of information that helps people find and connect with you, information like "About Me" and where you work or go to school.

Privacy 67

Privacy Communications IT 67

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Despite the claims from LinkedIn that an IPO isn’t imminent, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen in 2010. Facebook on the other hand would appear to have a battle on their hands to get a credible business model organized for the IPO markets. After lagging behind Facebook in the extensibility stakes LinkedIn now has [.

Marketing 53

Marketing 53

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On December 7, 2009, the Business Forum for Consumer Privacy released “A Use and Obligations Approach to Protecting Privacy: A Discussion Document” at the Federal Trade Commission’s roundtable entitled “Exploring Privacy.” The roundtable was a first step in the FTC’s effort to re-examine privacy protection in light of rapid, dynamic changes in technology, advances in data analytics and increasingly ubiquitous data collection and use.

Privacy 40

Privacy Paper Data collection Analytics 40

Advertisement

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

Analytics

Positively RIM

DECEMBER 16, 2009

MR. RECORDS: (sings while donning cardigan): It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won’t you please …won’t you please….Please won’t you be my neighbor? MR. RECORDS: Good morning, boys and girls. I’m so glad you’re in the neighborhood today! I’m Mr. Records. What’s your name? Names are important.

Mining 40

Mining Paper IT 40

Daradiction

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Written by Jolie O’Dell. By the way, our RoadTwip panel just got selected by SxSW Interactive. Ever since two friends and I staged a two-week jaunt around the Midwest to attend a great new conference earlier this year, I’ve been more and more aware of a growing trend: the social media road trip. While on the road this year, I’ve come upon long-term social media road warriors such as Mark Simonds of the Twitter Road Trip , brand ambassadors such as Sara Lopez and conference-hopp

Mining 62

Mining IT 62

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 11, 2009

You know, I just realized I suggested that Facebook do exactly what it's doing. Read this post from back in June, deconstructing an article in Wired about the emerging Facebook v. Google battle. In it I say: I think it's a major strategic mistake to not offer [as much information on Facebook as possible] to Google (and anyone else that wants to crawl it.

IT 63

IT 63

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

ZDNet All of ZDNet Reviews Whitepapers Downloads Home News & Blogs Reviews Downloads White Papers Log Out | Manage | Log In | Join | Site Assistance | Follow via Twitter Facebook Email US Edition ZDNet is available in the following editions: Australia Asia China France Germany United Kingdom Companies Hardware Software Mobile Security Research Special Coverage Amazon Apple AT&T Cisco Dell EMC Google Hewlett-Packard IBM Intel Microsoft Oracle Research in Motion SAP Verizon Data center Green T

Paper 51

Paper Marketing Cloud Financial Services 51

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 18, 2009

On December 17, 2009, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) filed a complaint with the FTC claiming that Facebook is engaging “unfair and deceptive trade practices” by changing its privacy policies. Notably, the changes allow anyone who browses the Internet to view a Facebook user’s name, profile picture, gender, geographic region and list of friends.

Privacy 40

Privacy Data collection IT 40

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.

IT

Positively RIM

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Controls, governance, That's why I smile when I see The auditors come

Government 40

Government 40

Scary Beasts Security

DECEMBER 11, 2009

I've been meaning to fiddle around with timing attacks for a while. I've had various discussions in the past about the significance of login determination attacks (including ones I found myself) and my usual response would be "it's all moot -- the attacker could just use a timing attack". Finally, here's some ammo to support that position. And -- actual cross-domain data theft using just a timing attack, as a bonus.

Paper 20

Paper IT 20

Daradiction

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Yep that’s Kurty D showing you how to keep you community clean. C’mon! Click here to view the embedded video.

69

69

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 2, 2009

From the Google Social Web Blog (I have to admit it's hard for me to see those four words together without busting out a silly grin): Today, we're bringing Twitter and Friend Connect even closer together. Now you can join one of over nine million Google Friend Connect sites using your Twitter login. Once signed in, your Twitter profile will be automatically linked and you can tweet your new site membership, share discussions from the comments gadget, and invite your friends via Twitter.

IT 60

IT 60

Advertisement

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.

Risk

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2009

A huge blocker to understanding business value and usage of modern 2.0 technologies is the Facebook fiasco. The 800 pound/350 million accounts gorilla in the ’social’ space confuses the heck out of most of the planet. The latest attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: your personal information wants to be free. By default, [.

49

49

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 15, 2009

A class action complaint filed on December 9, 2009, in Illinois federal court alleges that WideOpen West, Finance, LLC ("WOW"), an Internet service provider, violated its users’ privacy by "installing spyware devices on its broadband networks." Valentine v. WideOpen West (N.D. Ill., No. 1:09-cv-07653). This action against WOW follows the October 6, 2009, dismissal by a district court in California of similar claims against six out-of-state ISP defendants (including WOW) fil

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Privacy Communications IT 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Paul points it out as a failed dishwasher search. Mike complains about automated content as does RWW. And we all have experienced it: The Google ecosystem is failing more - failing to get us what we think we want. Failing to not frustrate us. Failing at the more complicated queries we are throwing at it. Failing to be the Google that we came to love back when the web was small and Facebook was a way for Harvard geeks to try to get laid.

IT 56

IT 56

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Reading about this study using Facebook data ( original link ) gave me some hope that we may see true insights from third party academics doing high integrity fieldwork on top of the Facebook data. My wish for Facebook is that it welcome such work, create parameters and ensure privacy, but allow researchers to really dig in. Much could be learned. The linked study is internal research, however.

Privacy 53

Privacy IT 53

Advertisement

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.

Security

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

AT&T today released an iPhone app that reports wireless issues. It's called Mark the Spot. Very cool. This is a step toward the crowdsourced, conversational, map-driven go to market strategy I outlined here.this app was not done by AT&T marketing, but rather labs, I was told, though that is not totally confirmed.

Marketing 49

Marketing IT 49

Daradiction

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Below are my top five themes of talent, ranked in the order revealed by my responses to the Clifton StrengthsFinder. How well do you think these themes describe me? I’m very interested to find out what yours are too so please comment if/when you have yours. Achiever. People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard.

49

49

Daradiction

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Integrity schmegrity. Consider the baseline of diminishing integrity phenomena. Most folks don’t play at 100% integrity, and that’s why they get less that optimal results. Consider that the difference between 100% and 99% integrity is literally vaster and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Here’s the deal, it seems to me that most folks run a ‘cost benefit analysis’ on integrity, or in other words having integrity where it “matters&# but then letting things ’

Authentication 49

Authentication IT 49

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

When you’re calling your important prospect with a free conference call number, you probably don’t realize the increasing chances of getting a number unobtainable message like this as digital telco disruption escalates. Conference calls are an vital part of collaboration, with millions participating in remote meetings by telephone. While the form factor of telephones hasn’t changed [.

47

47

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.

Customer Experience

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Everyone knows Kindle is a closed development platform (IE, there's not an app environment that lets developers make the Kindle platform better). Today I saw the news that Google has doubled the number of publishing partners who are now leveraging the company's " Fast Flip " e-reader software, and it got me to thinking. First, Fast Flip is software that runs anywhere the web runs, including mobile apps.

Paper 45

Paper Marketing IT 45

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Google today announced a new policy in its ongoing attempt to reach detente with an increasingly querulous publishing industry. (For background, read Mashable's piece ). A key piece of the new policy has to do with changes to Google's "First Click Free" program. From Google's announcement : One way we overcome this is through a program called First Click Free.

Marketing 45

Marketing IT 45

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I never did understand why everyone releases the "top Searches of 2009" with one month yet to go. It's as if nothing happens in December. Anyway, here are the sites: Bing. Yahoo. Google.

IT 45

IT 45

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Privacy concerns, as I discussed in my previous post, are plaguing both Facebook and the broader 2.0 web technology ecosphere it casts a shadow over. Now the latest attempts by Facebook to unlock the value in your information is meeting legal resistance. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), joined by nine privacy and consumer organizations, today [.

Privacy 44

Privacy IT 44

Advertisement

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.

Analytics

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

‘Social media’ seems to be becoming even more of a hindrance to the successful application of 2.0 technologies to solve specific business problems as time goes on: I finally read ‘Beware Social Media Snake Oil‘ by Stephen Baker in the December 3 issue of BusinessWeek, the ailing old media title recently bought by Bloomberg. Morten [.

42

42

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Blackbox Republic, the personal relationship oriented members only community, launches on a subscription based model today. The community aims to fill the space between online dating industry sites and the online social networking world. Think of Blackbox Republic as a fashionable online ‘members-only’ club where you might expect to meet people with similar interests to your [.

42

42

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Twitter and its clones seem to be growing like weeds wherever you look, and are starting to spam each other with location updates if you’re a user. Rewind back ten years to the start of the decade we’re just leaving and there’s a distinct similarity with instant messaging and the birth of XMPP standards. Instant messaging [.

IT 41

IT 41