John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 4, 2015

'The post Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech… appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. 2015. My eleventh year of making predictions. Seems everyone’s gotten onto this particular bus, and I’m now late to the party – I never get around to writing till the weekend – when I have open hours in front of me, and plenty of time to contemplate That Which May Come.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2015

'Finally some innovation and progress in network security after years of siege mentality - map IT topography, label and write security policy for the modern digital world.

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Elie

JANUARY 31, 2015

19.5% of HTTPS-enabled sites in Alexa's Top 1 Million trigger or will soon trigger a Chrome security warning because they are using the now deprecated SHA-1 signature algorithm to sign their HTTPS certificate. Soon those sites will be flagged by all major browsers as insecure.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 31, 2015

A couple of days ago, I received from a DB2 for z/OS professional a question about stored procedures. This individual asked specifically about the STAY RESIDENT option of CREATE PROCEDURE (and ALTER PROCEDURE), and its effect on a native SQL procedure (i.e., a stored procedure that is written in SQL procedure language -- aka SQL PL -- and which runs in the DB2 database services address space).

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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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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 12, 2015

Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) entered 2015 with a (slightly) new look. Amendments set out in Bill 3, the […].

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 20, 2015

'The post Apple and Google: Middle School Mean Girls Having At It appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) I’m the father of three children, and two of them are girls. And while my first was a boy, and therefore “broke me in” with extraordinary acts of Running Headlong Into Fence Posts and Drinking Beer Stolen From Dad’s Fridge Yet Forgetting To Hide The Bottles, nothing, NOTHING, prepared me for Girls Behaving Badly To Each Other Whilst In Middle Sch

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2015

'"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" HP Lovecraft.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 29, 2015

On January 28, 2015, in connection with Data Protection Day, newly appointed European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) Giovanni Buttarelli spoke about future challenges for data protection. Buttareli encouraged the EU “to lead by example as a beacon of respect for digital rights,” and “to be at the forefront in shaping a global, digital standard for privacy and data protection which centers on the rights of the individual.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 26, 2015

Not long ago, an IBM colleague of mine who is a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS specialist sent to me and to a few other IBMers (including some of our CICS and DB2 for z/OS developers) some information about an application scenario, and asked for our ideas and feedback. The scenario involved a Java program that accessed a local DB2 for z/OS subsystem (i.e., a subsystem in the same z/OS LPAR as the WAS instance) and selected a row to be updated, and then invoked a COBOL program (also

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 21, 2015

In a previous post on online behavioural advertising (OBA), we wrote about the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s “call to action” to stakeholders in […].

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CGI

JANUARY 30, 2015

Determining best-fit workload environment key to effective cloud brokerage. kathy.jacquay@…. Fri, 01/30/2015 - 07:01. In today’s immature cloud brokerage marketplace, there is a big misconception that cloud brokerage is primarily about finding the least expensive virtual machine when it really should be about figuring out the best-fit environment for your workload.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 26, 2015

'The post Metromile: A FitBit for Your Car appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The Metromile staff in front of their SF HQ (Preston is in the red shirt in the back right). Ever since writing Living Systems and The Information First Company last Fall, I’ve been citing Earnest , the financial services startup, as a poster child for what I mean by an “information-first” company.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2015

'The challenge for giant swathes of the tech industry is that bad smell from past plumbing failures -- and fear of the unknown.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2015

On January 27, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced the release of a report on the Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World (the “Report”). The Report describes the current state of the Internet of Things, analyzes the benefits and risks of its development, applies privacy principles to the Internet of Things and discusses whether legislation is needed to address this burgeoning area.

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Barclay T Blair

JANUARY 27, 2015

Transcript. An edited and condensed transcript of this speech is available here. . Tagged: AHIMA , big data , E-Discovery , InfoGovCon , Information Governance , Keynote , Presentation.

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JKevinParker

JANUARY 21, 2015

It's hard to fathom why people don't get that 12345, 123456, and other similarly stupid passwords make their own information and their organization's info much less secure. But many people don't get it. Dark Helmet from SPACEBALLS warned you a long time ago: "12345? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!".

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CGI

JANUARY 22, 2015

What’s in a name? CGI’s guide to the language of the Internet of Things (IoT). p.butler@cgi.com. Thu, 01/22/2015 - 03:28. Many of you will be familiar with the term IoT – well it’s hard to miss if you scan the press, social media and business pages. CGI have a long track record working in this area, so in this blog, I thought I’d provide a potted history to the term, its origins and what it means to us at CGI.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2015

'The post The Three Golden Rules of Naming Something appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) I love being part of naming something. It’s probably the flat out most fun you can have legally with your clothes on – but for many folks, including entrepreneurs, it’s the source of endless consternation. It doesn’t have to be.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2015

'Finally some innovation and progress in network security after years of siege mentality - map IT topography, label and write security policy for the modern digital world.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2015

On January 28, 2015, the German conference of data protection commissioners hosted a European Data Protection Day event called Europe: Safer Harbor for Data Protection? – The Future Use of the Different Level of Data Protection between the EU and the US. At the conference, the speakers discussed the validity of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. Previously, in 2013, the German data protection commissioners stated that they would review whether to suspend data transfers made from Germany to the U

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Barclay T Blair

JANUARY 15, 2015

Over the holiday season while were visiting family in Alberta, Canada, my 92-year-old grandfather – who had been healthy and active his whole life – passed away. He went quickly and surrounded by his family, and I was honored to be there with my family and to participate in his funeral. I was asked to make a “slide show,” and spent a couple of days with hundreds of photos going back to the 1920s, which was a beautiful way to meditate on this man’s life.

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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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Managing Your Information

JANUARY 5, 2015

With the recent publicity surrounding Virgin Trains, empty seats and Jeremy Corbyn , it would seem that organisations remain unaware of the data protection implications when using CCTV images. There was an interesting story that was reported in the press on 31 December 2015 about a restaurant who posted an image from their CCTV on Facebook of a group of 4 people that had allegedly left the restaurant without paying their bill.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 11, 2015

'The post App Stores Must Go appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. 2014 was the year the industry woke up to the power of mobile app installs, and the advertising platforms that drive them. Facebook’s impressive mobile revenue numbers – 66% of its Q3 2014 revenue and growing – are a proxy for the mobile economy at large, and while the company doesn’t divulge what percentage of that revenue is app install advertising, estimates range from a third to a half

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 27, 2015

On February 11, 2015, the International Association of Privacy Professionals Australian New Zealand (“iappANZ”) will host a discussion on the risk-based approach to privacy in Sydney, Australia. Richard Thomas , Global Strategy Advisor for the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (the “Centre”), will present the Centre’s contributions to this topic including the outcomes from the workshops held in Paris and Brussels.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2015

On January 21, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois granted partial summary judgment on December 12, 2014, to the federal government in its action against Dish Network LLC (“Dish”), alleging that Dish violated certain aspects of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”) that restrict placing calls to numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry and an entity’s internal Do-Not-Call list.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2015

On January 12, 2015, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (“ENISA”) published a report on Privacy and Data Protection by Design – from policy to engineering (the “Report”). The “privacy by design” principle emphasizes the development of privacy protections at the early stages of the product or service development process, rather than at later stages.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2015

On January 14, 2015, the data protection authority of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (“Schleswig DPA”) issued an appeal challenging a September 4, 2014 decision by the Administrative Court of Appeals, which held that companies using Facebook’s fan pages cannot be held responsible for data protection law violations committed by Facebook because the companies do not have any control over the use of the data.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 20, 2015

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has prepared a new bill that, although styled a “security breach” bill, would impose substantial new privacy obligations on companies holding the personal data of Indiana residents. Introduced by Indiana Senator James Merritt (R-Indianapolis) on January 12, 2015, SB413 would make a number of changes to existing Indiana law.

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