John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
I had a good call today with Dennis Woodside, who runs North American Sales for Google, and Susan Wojcicki, who runs products. Both are long timers at Google, Susan is pretty much a llfer - she joined in 1999. Both are joining me on stage at the CM Summit next month , a first for Google to have ad products and sales represented in one onstage interview.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 31, 2010
Most people outside the tech bubble go to work in order to make money in order to put a roof over their head and fund their personal social life - they work to live, not live to work…leave their cube on Friday, and flip their brain into social mode until Monday morning. These social lives [.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 28, 2010
On May 28, 2010, the FTC announced that it would again delay enforcement of the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule. This is the fifth time the Commission has announced an extension of the enforcement deadline, after most recently extending the deadline to June 1, 2010. The Red Flags Rule requires “creditors” and “financial institutions” that have “covered accounts” to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs to help identify, detect and resp
Positively RIM
MAY 20, 2010
Because of GARP's call for Protection We gave CD-ROMs a rejection Their quick degradation Before regulations Expire, brought film's resurrection
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.
Shoreline Records Management
MAY 24, 2010
Network Document Scanners are a popular choice for companies getting started with document scanning, and with good reason. They're reasonably priced, don't require a dedicated computer, and help companies quickly convert Paper to Digital Images. When looking for a scanner though, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all of the choices - are you sure you know what DPI is best for your application?
Information Management Today brings together the best content for information management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
This campaign - focused on "Choice" - just went live across the country in major print newspapers. Intersting that Adobe chose print for the impact - Adobe recently launched CS5 entirely on digital platforms so you can't faul tthe company for zigging and zagging. There's an online component as well.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 24, 2010
Google today announced that it gives publishers 68% of its take for AdSense advertisements, eliminating one of the longest guessing games in our industry. Everyone knew that AOL, Ask, and other large partners pre-negotiated their deals, but no one knew what "typical" AdSense players made. Now we do, apparently. This 68% split is relatively new. How do I know that?
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 19, 2010
Google has fired a broadside across Apple's bow by announcing the Google Chrome Web Store , a great idea which, to my mind, has a mediocre name - one consistent with Google's ongoing struggles with branding in general. If I'm a typical consumer, I might be a bit confused by a name that 1. has "chrome" in it 2. has the word "store" but sells only apps and 3. has the word web in it - does that mean I can buy things on the web through it?
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 25, 2010
Five years and about two months ago, I wrote a blog post announcing the creation of Federated Media Publishing. I will admit I was scratching an itch, not certain that it would work out. In that post I hedged a my bet - mainly because I was still smarting from the loss of my previous business - The Industry Standard - and I was not certain that I (or the world) was really ready for me to run a company again.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 21, 2010
Early last week I wrote a long-ish piece on the iAd – in which I both criticized and praised Apple for “re-gifting” a mobile ad format that already existed. Since then I’ve spoke with Apple’s head of corporate communications, as well as several other potential clients and agencies. I didn’t learn a lot from Apple, but I did get some context for this next installment.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 5, 2010
When Bing launched, I framed the new service from Microsoft as an important step in the evolution of search: I actually don't think Microsoft is trying to out-Google Google with Bing. I think it's trying to build a different kind of search application, one that sits on top of commodity search and helps people make decisions in a new way. Done right, this totally breaks the AdWords model that has driven search so far.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2010
Via KK and Cuban , I found this deck from NetFlix CEO Reed Hastings, who will be speaking at Web 2 Summit this year. It's a very transparent take on his company's market position, competitors, and prospects. Worth clicking through. Business Opportunity View more presentations from reed2002.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 1, 2010
From the real time search service's blog post: Until today, we’ve been indexing the links shared on Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Delicious and by our own OneRiot panel to help determine our search results. Now, with the addition of Facebook data, OneRiot delivers search results that reflect the pulse of a much, much wider social web. Also, the service seems a bit wary of what might come of all this: Now, of course, we’re only showing (indeed, only have access to) data that has been shared publicly by
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.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 26, 2010
Amongst the books I’ve been digesting recently, I’ve been ruminating on three which intersect in interesting ways.“Pull&# is suddenly a hot word with real time web enthusiasts: John Hagel, John Seeley Brown and Lang Davidson of the Deloitte Center for the Edge just published ‘The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2010
The CM Summit is three weeks away , and already I've asked for your input on four major voices in digital media and marketing: Arianna Huffington , Tony Hsieh , Tim Armstrong , and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Next on the hit list is Omar Hamoui, CEO of AdMob , the mobile marketing company Google recently acquired for $750 million. That acquisition hasn't gone as smoothly as Google would like - it's still under FTC review, though a decision is expected any day now.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2010
We trigger happy blogging geeks often get in our own way. Witness this Mashable article about an important patent granted to Apple. First, thank you Mashable, for pointing out this patent. But you miss the point! First, the patent: Apple has essentially patented the ability to sync actions between two or more devices. This could be something as simple as adding a to-do to my calendar on my Mac and having it automatically sent to my phone.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
From the IAB release on first quarter 2010: Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. hit $5.9 billion for the first quarter of 2010, representing a 7.5 percent increase over the same period in 2009, according to the numbers released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This marks the highest first-quarter revenue level ever for the industry.
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.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 16, 2010
Most modern companies are choking to death on documents, and my consulting work can sometimes feel like a hoarding intervention TV show. Employees at all levels know they are trapped in a reactive work world that is burning them out, but are trapped by circumstance into collaborating and therefore perpetuating the document and postal paradigms [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 21, 2010
Early last week I wrote a long-ish piece on the iAd – in which I both criticized and praised Apple for “re-gifting” a mobile ad format that already existed. Since then I’ve spoke with Apple’s head of corporate communications, as well as several other potential clients and agencies. I didn’t learn a lot from Apple, but I did get some context for this next installment.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 12, 2010
For all you RSS consumers out there wondering what I do late at night: Thursday Signal: Still About Facebook. Weds. Signal: Facebook Losing Face? Tuesday Signal: A Walk in the Park. Thanks for reading.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 24, 2010
The CM Summit is now just two weeks away , and already I've asked for your input on five major voices in digital media and marketing: Arianna Huffington , Tony Hsieh , Tim Armstrong , Omar Hamoui , and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Next up is Hilary Schneider , EVP Americas, Yahoo! Hilary is a crucial member of CEO Carol Bartz's team, running Yahoo's largest and most public business in the US, among others.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 7, 2010
Longtime readers know that as each conference I host draws near, I invite you all to help me interview the luminaries who grace our stages. We're one month out from this year's CM Summit , and the lineup is incredible. I'm working backwards through the keynote conversations, and the conference will end with Arianna Huffington , the founder and EIC of The Huffington Post.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2010
As I do every three Signals or so, here are the links for you RSS readers out there. And for all you readers trying to decipher what I'm on about, there are hints all over these roundups. Not that you're paying attention that closely, but still, the threads are there. Tuesday Signal: Consider This. Monday Signal: The Open Book. Friday Signal: Thank God It’s Not Monday.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 11, 2010
Third on our hit list of CM Summit interviews is Tim Armstrong , CEO of AOL. Tim has now held that title for just about a year. Lately he's taken to rallying the AOL troops with this decidedly controversial slogan: " Beat the Internet !". If you want to find out what that's all about, how Tim's first year on the job has gone, and more, please come to the conference.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 2, 2010
Devoted readers may notice I don't post here every day, and you may wonder - well what's John up to then? Well, I've created a newsletter of sorts, a daily reading list with short commentary, called Signal. It's an FM product and it lives here, at the Signal home page. Every day, I sort through hundreds of stories, most related to the Internet, media, and marketing world, and find ten or so that I find particularly noteworthy.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 14, 2010
The CM Summit is now just three weeks away , I hope you can join us. We've got more than 450 folks signed up, and we'll hit our limit pretty soon, so register now. With that in mind, fourth on our hit list of CM Summit interviews is Arthur Sulzberger Jr. , Chairman, The New York Times Co. Arthur has led the Times for the past 13 years, and during his tenure the company has constantly innovated in digital publishing.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 10, 2010
Readers have asked for links to the FM Signal here, and I've missed a few. So that you might stay in touch (in particular, all you 175K or so RSS readers), herewith are them links: Tuesday Signal: A Walk in the Park You have to see the last item. Facebook is on its heels. Maybe it needs a HeelTastic(TM). See Friday. Monday Signal: Sue Me! As Kara said, let's try to keep it civil as we sue the sh*t out of each other, and if not that, then kill each other in the markets.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 7, 2010
Next up on the hit list of amazing conversations at CM Summit is Tony Hsieh , Founder of Zappos, now a division of Amazon. Tony is also an author, and everyone who comes to the conference will get a copy of his new book " Delivering Happiness ," which will be published the first day of the event (June 7th). Who wants to take odds that the book will do well at Amazon?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
100 
Let's personalize your content