John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Eighteen months ago I was tracking its inflection point in usage (holy shit, look how it's growing! Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!), then its inflection in business model (hey, it doesn't have one ! Wait, yes it does, but can it scale ?!
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
I’ve just been reading reactions to last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference, which includes the endless sector name parlor game, and discussions around whether the market space is on Bambi legs, maturing …or as dead as John Cleese’s parrot. It’s all of those things and more depending on where you’re sitting, what you’ve experienced and what [.
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Robert's Db2
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
In a couple of entries that I posted to the blog I maintained while working as an independent DB2 consultant ( one written this past summer , and the other in the spring of 2009), I mentioned the LASTUSED column of the DB2 for z/OS catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS. This column was introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS (indeed, the SYSINDEXSPACESTATS table itself was introduced with DB2 9 -- it's the moved-to-the-catalog version of the formerly user-defined INDEXSPACESTATS table, which holds inde
Daradiction
NOVEMBER 6, 2010
Just finished watching Ken Burn’s documentary on Lewis & Clark. So inspiring. Lewis’ birthday meditation both inspires and resonates with me: “This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding gen
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Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (the “Centre”) this week issued “ Data Protection Law and the Ethical Use of Analytics ,” authored for the Centre by Paul Schwartz, Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School, University of California. Marty Abrams shared this paper on November 30, 2010, at the European Data Protection and Privacy Conference in Brussels and plans to present the paper on December 1, 2010, at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
This third conversation with Mark Zuckerberg was, to my mind, the best so far, and YouTube seems to agree, as it's got more plays than nearly any other save Eric Schmidt (who was featured by YouTube on the homepage). See if you agree.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
I expect more than a few CIO’s have reached for the Pepto Bismol after hearing the news about WikiLeaks releasing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables on the public internet, given how similar the situation is to their responsibilities for protecting data and information. Diplomatic embassy ‘cables’Â containing confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries [.
Preservica
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
A paper entitled "Data Conservancy: Digital Curation of the Magmatic System of McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica" is being given by Keith Kaneda of Johns Hopkins University at the Geological Society of America Annual conference on Wednesday 3rd November 2010. I am delighted to be a joint author on this paper together with several colleagues from both Johns Hopkins and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Daradiction
NOVEMBER 6, 2010
Just finished watching Ken Burn's documentary on Lewis & Clark. So inspiring. Lewis' birthday meditation both inspires and resonates with me: "This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation.
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.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
On November 25, 2010, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted a recommendation (the “Recommendation”) on the protection of individuals with regard to the automatic processing of personal data in the context of profiling. View the press release. The Recommendation is designed to set up safeguards for profiling activities by applying the principles established in Convention 108 to the challenges raised by profiling and by defining new principles.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
ATD is reporting that Google is offering well more than twice what had been previously offered - $6 billion, instead of $2.5 billion. That sounds more like it. As I wrote yesterday, $2.5 billion sounded very low for this particular asset. (And this from the guy who thought YouTube was overpriced.). Clearly, that leak to Vator.tv last weekend was timed to push a deal point, I'm guessing.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Today's big rumor, so far at least, is that Google may be buying Groupon for a reported $2.5 billion. This sale has been rumored for some time, but the figure - and story - is based on a rather thin piece by VatorNews which broke early this morning. The headline is honest in its lack of, er, definitiveness - Google buys Groupon for $2.5 billion? - but it does claim one "reliable source.".
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Mary has been giving an overview of the capital markets at Web 2 for seven years running, and this one, framed as lessons for CEOs of Internet companies, is a gem.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Postings have been and, through this week, will continue to be pretty light. The reason: I'm hosting, with my partner Tim O'Reilly, the seventh annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. There should be a lot of news here, starting with some of our own - for the first time ever the Web 2 Summit will be livestreamed, for free, to anyone. The stream can be embedded anywhere, so I'm adding it to this site below.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Given how silent this site has been over the past few weeks, it only seems right to share with you all the result of all my work. So I'll be posting videos of some of the highlights of the Web 2 Summit this past week, starting with our kick off conversation with Eric Schmidt. Enjoy.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
Ev recently turned over CEO duties to Dick Costolo, but it's clear he's still very, very engaged. Highlights for me included when Ev spoke of his mission to lower barriers to publishing, avoided talking about financing, and needled me a few times, in a humorous way, of course.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
Despite the amazing advances in hi def video devices there are still huge issues with the competence of the person behind the camera. Lighting and camera stability are two fundamentals of watchable video, and if you own Flip cameras I’m sure you’ve been disappointed by your herky jerky footage of important [.
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Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
Centuries of study of the way humans interact have given us a deep body of psychological knowledge on our mental or emotional traits. The world of organizational psychology applies to the way we interact and collaborate (or not) in organizations and workplaces. The video above is a conversation with Michelle Johnston, an Industrial and Organizational Consultant [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
According the the NYT's coverage of today's WikiLeaks trove (only a small percentage have been released publicly, the rest have been reviewed by the Times): China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruite
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to publish a real live playlist, one that links to real music, but for whatever reason, I never seem to be able to. If you guys have an easy way to do it, please let me know. I've tried a few services and they fail me, or, perhaps more aptly, I fail at them. Anyway, here's a screengrab of the playlist I used at the Web 2 Summit this year.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
The US West Coast Enterprise 2.0 Conference commences November 8, and has quickly reached the same number of attendees as the summer east coast Boston event within only two years. I’ve previously discussed on this blog Richard Boly of the US state department, who will be presenting their iDiplomacy environment, and there [.
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
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
I met with Ev at Twitter headquarters yesterday, a prelude to our conversation in less than two weeks time at Web 2 (I also spoke with him last year ). As usual he was in a thoughtful mood, though an unexpected visit from Biz added some levity to the proceedings. Williams will be the final speaker at Web 2 this year, a program that begins with Eric Schmidt, continues with Robin Li, Ari Emmanuel, Shantanu Narayen, Jim Balsille, Mark Zuckerberg, Carol Bartz, and so many more.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 12, 2010
Web 2.0 is now very mature and encompasses the vast topography of the entire networked economy. Next week’s very pricey and exclusive San Francisco Web 2.0 Summit is subtitled ‘Points of Control - the Battle for the Networked Economy’ …incumbents in the network economy are [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
A highlight for me at Web 2 was watching John Heilemann interview Fred and John, two giants of the VC world. This was a pretty historic pairing, and I'm very pleased we made it happen.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
Carol Bartz has been under fire for nearly two years, and it shows in her responses to my questions - she's ready to look forward and not defend what Yahoo has been in the past. My sense is that it will take another year or so before the real changes at Yahoo - in key areas of infrastructure, management, and products - will really take hold.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
I found myself really engaged with Robin (CEO, Baidu) in this conversation, and I found his answers to some difficult questions - like doing business under the Chinese government's rule - to be refreshingly honest.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
My conversation with recently emerged super investor Yuri Milner was fascinating, and it got a bit tense when I brought up the recent trial of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and its implications for doing business out of Russia. I felt it was a pertinent question, but I'm not certain Milner agreed. What do you think?
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
A very fun evening discussion with Ari, who gets riled up by Tim during the Q&A. Check it out.
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