Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
Mana from the heavens for cloud sceptics - on a day a lot of professional photographers lost all their images due to the failure of photo hosting site Digital Railroad went under - as Twitter users fanned their egos en masse to parade their ‘twitterank‘ to their followers. Twitterrank has no apparent purpose beyond a sketchy [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
I do this too much - post something short, as a note to myself and all of you that there is way more to say, then end with "I'll say more in the next post." Then I get busy and forget about that "next post" thing, and start posting on other stuff. What I really meant was, "in my next post on this topic.". Hope that clarifies things. OK. So what was I talking about when I wrote: "Facebook had a "malfunction" today that reset all my email notifications.
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ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
Blogging is great fun, but you might know that I also enjoy writing more substantive articles. This is probably a bad habit I've picked up from the book chapter I've written in the past and all the writing I had to do while studying for my masters (an MBT from UNSW ). I have in my head a idea for a book on Intranet 2.0. Actually, its more than an idea – I already have a proposal drafted for a book I'm tentatively calling, the Next Generation Intranet Handbook ( I'm not emotionally attached to
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Massachusetts recently announced that it is extending the deadline for compliance with new state data security regulations. In consideration of the current economic climate, Massachusetts has extended its original compliance deadline of January 1, 2009. The new compliance deadline will be phased in. By May 1, 2009, companies that are subject to the regulations must generally comply with the new standards and must contractually ensure the compliance of their third-party service providers.
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Scary Beasts Security
NOVEMBER 24, 2008
It's time to write some coherent details about "cookie forcing", which is the name I've given for a new way to attempt to break into secure https sessions. This is surfjacking to the max - attacks an active MITM (man-in-the-middle) can attempt against an https application that follows best practices like marking its cookies secure; avoiding XSS and XSRF; etc.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
Facebook with loads o ads : The author Andrew Chen notes that with "experimental" ad budgets (ie stuff like Facebook's nascent "engagement ads" and the like) getting slashed, this might be what Facebook looks like soon.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 23, 2008
Given the economic collapse, 2009 is widely seen as a lost year, it seems. But Google CEO Eric Schmidt's an optimist, here's his take on the year. Google Blog write up here.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic (which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world) have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing [.
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
As a healthy but slight change from recent topics , I was going through some old notes and thought it might be worthwhile sharing some tips with you about collecting data for Social Network Analysis (SNA). You might also like to check out my article about social networks, titled Small World! Just as brief overview, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a tool that provides a technique for analysing informal networks.
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Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
After my post yesterday afternoon about Twitterank, its creator Ryo Chijiiwa contacted me by email to ask if I’d like to hear his side of the story: I offered him a guest post. Over to Ryo: I blame the Family Guy. There I was in my hotel room, where I’m staying while in NY for [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
That's the last line of a Times piece over the weekend on the increasing size of our digital footprints. Hmmm. But it is the basis of the American constitution. Read the Times piece, which, if you've read The Search and watched the " Web Meets World " meme (that was the theme for Web 2 this year), will not be new ground, but is a good overview of the issue right now.
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
I missed the morning of day two at Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration (I was attending a seminar on MySource Matrix ) but ended up sharing lunch with two Government 2.0 innovators from the speakers line up, Phillip Bower from Centrelink and Dheeraj Chowdhury from the NSW Department of Education (see below). Here is a summary of two sessions from the afternoon: Paul Salvati, Smart Service Queensland Due to the demographic profile of Queensland's population, they need to engage wi
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 20, 2008
And the rumor is he's going to Microsoft. Should that prove true, another reason to make that Yahoo/MSFT search deal happen. Details at All Things D : Yahoo-which has stuck to its guns by staying in the search business, even though many think it is a losing game and should be sold off to Microsoft-has lost a key engineer in that arena to, uh-oh, Microsoft.
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ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
In an interesting whitepaper, Flattening The Information Landscape [PDF], RSSBus explain how their products can help to provide “ Really Simply Services â€: “ …in case you are thinking that RSSBus is nothing more than RSS feed generation, that's definitely not the case. RSSBus allows for input parameters and it can pipe the output of one connector as the input to the next, so it can be used to build advanced information processing systems.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 19, 2008
I’ve just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL’s partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I’ve written before about HCL’s ‘Employee First’ management innovations: I previously met HCL CEO Vineet Nayar at [.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 28, 2008
There is a huge difference between verified information, speculation, incorrect information and disinformation. The net is buzzing about the communication enabled by Twitter, Flickr, youtube, wikipedia and bloggers from Mumbai, with CNN stating "It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 14, 2008
The Twitterank experience this week is a sobering example of how equilibrium around an online application can quickly change. Twitter is a powerful tool used by a huge number of people worldwide (Japan enjoys the greatest usage and the most sophisticated usage model - only the Japanese currently enjoy user groups using ‘Twicco‘, as this video [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Just a placeholder for a piece I'm trying to bang out tonight, ideally. I've been ranting about it to various folks all weekend long, has to do with the inflection point of being able to ask this question: What are people saying about ( my query ) right now? Yep, it has to do with Twitter, but also a lot more than that. Stay tuned.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Another Yahoo search rumor, as Om puts it - this one following the general outline of my suggestion way back when that search be spun off and run as an independent company with backing from Yahoo and Microsoft. This comes from the Times of London , it seems that in UK, reporters are making a habit of, well, not doing any reporting. The use of passive voice makes my head spin.
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Over on the SocialText blog, Michael Idinopulos talks about the difference between deploying individual social computing tools to teams and departments with rolling out social computing suites to an entire enterprise: " Company-wide deployments are very different from departmental ones. It's like campaigning for the U.S. presidency: you're not really running one national campaign, you're running 50 state campaigns.or 5,000 regional campaigns.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
There’s an interesting dynamic I’ve been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it was entirely possible that the Mumbai attackers were monitoring communications and the media [.
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ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Some of you who follow me closely might have noticed that a few weeks ago I went freelance again. Blame the doom and gloom of current financial crisis. Enough said? Anyway, I haven't mentioned it until now as for the moment I've dusted off the covers of Chief Technology Solutions and have been working on a couple of small consulting projects. But right now I'm open to offers of both long term roles (either contract or permanent would be given serious consideration) and also any immediate short-t
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Facebook had a "malfunction" today that reset all my email notifications. All of a sudden, I am getting Facebook notifications in my email inbox about all manner of things. A conspiracist will claim this was on purpose. I'll explain why in the next post.
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 28, 2008
David Weinberger writes that with a few exceptions, control doesn’t scale and social media makes social control even harder – a point Clay Shirky also makes , although he highlights that its as much about the medium as it is the message. In my mind the development and relationship of information and communication technology (ICT) to control is also a story about the span and speed of that control.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
I reported skeptically on this issue earlier , but let's call a spade a spade. Google used its contractor workforce to quickly scale without having to spend on permanent employees, and now, it's using that same workforce to cut back costs. I've heard from a fair number of "laid off" contractors, in particular in Europe, and the reality is simply that: Google's use of contractors outstripped the company's ability to leverage them to the bottom line, and something had to be done.
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ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
As promised, here are some notes on some selected sessions from day 1 of Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration : Richard Kimber from Friendster and Rebekah Horne from MySpace Deep within these two key note presentations (once you got past the promotion of the particular social networking sites that Richard Kimber and Rebekah Horne represented) I picked up a few ideas in respect to the role and application of social networking tools inside organisations: On the Web, social networkin
ChiefTech
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
Phew! Well, the last couple of days have been a process of absorbing a lot of information and ideas from attending the Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration conference, a half-day seminar about the MySource Matrix commercial open source Web CMS and also the last formal NSW KM Forum meeting of the year. I have some notes from the conference to share and also a write up about MySource Matrix in separate posts to come later.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 24, 2008
My latest rant, up on the Amex Open Forum Blog. From it: The debate is as old as the web itself - what is the role of marketing in a medium that is so clearly driven by interaction and communication? I have a lot of thoughts about this topic, but a recent Ad Age article roused me to address one of the most irritating myths out there: That somehow social media and marketing don't mix.
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