April, 2010

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An Open Letter to Apple Regarding The Company’s Approach to Conversation with Its Peers and Its Community

John Battelle's Searchblog

Dear Apple: We miss you. Once upon a time, back before you got real popular , you used to take part in the public square. You may have been less forthcoming than most, but at least your employees would speak at industry events, have unscripted conversations with journalists, and engage in the world a bit here and there. But over the past few years, things seem to have changed.

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Apple Mobile: Jobs vs Ad Industry, Adobe, Microsoft & Developers?

Collaboration 2.0

Ipad and iPhone developers look set to be trapped in a sea of Cocoa by Apple for the foreseeable future if the language of the latest iPhone OS 4 SDK proves to be enforceable by Apple. The only drink on the menu for developers are the Cocoa frameworks that consist of libraries, APIs, and [.

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Gov Fresh – 10 Entrepreneurs Changing the Way Government Works!

Daradiction

Honored to be included in this list! 10-entrepreneurs-changing-the-way-government-works. Tags: Capitalism Ethics and Social Justice Technology.

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Transparency

Positively RIM

The state of a program's transparency Can measure the ease those who care can see A RIM program's ways That emerge through the haze And that challenge all skeptics to dare and see.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Mexican Senate Approves Data Protection Bill

Hunton Privacy

The Mexican Senate has unanimously approved a landmark data protection law governing information use in the private sector, la Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en posesión de los particulares. We provided information on the bill last week when the Chamber of Deputies voted to approve it. The legislation has been forwarded to the president for signature.

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Apple Makes Its Move to Become the Google of App World

John Battelle's Searchblog

This is very interesting news, but not unexpected if you've been paying attention. Note in the past I've predicted that Apple will not do web search, but will do "app search," because app search is essentially broken, if you can even call it search to begin with. It's more like directory navigation at this point. Today Apple announced acquisition of Siri , a personal assistant app that includes voice recognition and search capabilities.

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Adobe Creative Suite 5: the Battle for your Eyeballs

Collaboration 2.0

Creative Suite 5, the latest compendium of creative and rich internet software from global creative workflow giant Adobe launches today. The various flavors and editions are comprised of various point products (with 250 new features) familiar to creative professionals, and Adobe as a highly creative company have done their usual stellar job of laying out all [.

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On Google's Brand

John Battelle's Searchblog

Yesterday a reporter from Cnet called and asked me a few provocative questions. He was writing a piece on Google as a marketer, and wanted my point of view. I'm not sure when his piece is coming out (or if my thoughts will be included), but our conversation helped me crystalize my thinking around Google and its brand, so I figured I best get it written down.

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The Gap Scenario

John Battelle's Searchblog

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. In time, I think this expectation will leak into realspace as well.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Twitter's "Public Interest Graph"

John Battelle's Searchblog

It's been a few days since Chirp, and I've had some time to digest all the news that broke last week. Certainly we'll have another meal this Weds. with Facebook's F8 , where it's already rumored that Facebook will both reveal its new "firehose" of public data (a la Twitter) as well as new approaches to monetization (see this piece from The Next Web , for example).

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Foursquare - I Wish It Was Better For Me.

John Battelle's Searchblog

I've been using Foursquare for a few months now, and I'm impressed with the service on many levels. But I have to be frank - the most impressive thing about it - at least in this test group of one - is what it *could* be, not what it is. First, the caveats. I use Foursquare, for the most part, on a Blackberry, which means the app is limited by RIM's hardware and software.

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A Note to Twitter Developers: Alas, It Was Ever So: Now, Add Value, Post Haste

John Battelle's Searchblog

Several moves by Twitter in the past week have Twitter developers understandably nervous about their future. Many of them have labored for months, if not years, to create applications on top of the open Twitter ecosystem, and they've created a lot of value in doing so. They have "filled holes" in Twitter's often bare bone service, creating Twitter- reading clients , Twitter application stores , Twitter filtering tools of all stripes, even Twitter analytics tools.

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Twitter To Roll Out "Promoted Tweets": Initial Thoughts (Developing)

John Battelle's Searchblog

(image from Ad Age ) The NYT has broken news of Twitter's initial version of its native ad platform , which it is calling "Promoted Tweets." I will acknowledge being briefed on this news prior to its breaking, and I did promise to withhold any comment until the news had been publicly broken. Now that the Times has provided me with a reason to sound off, here are my initial thoughts on the program.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Tynt Gets Funding, Searchblog Gets Tynt

John Battelle's Searchblog

TC broke the news today that Tynt , a search interception and user behavior data company, got a big round of funding from Panorama Capital, which is also an investor in FM. I've installed the Tynt service on Searchblog and I'd like to get your response. I think what the service does is quite clever and useful both to publishers and users. However, it does create new user experience for those of us who cut and paste on sites, and I'm interested if folks find the new approach worthy.

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Is TweetUp Bill Gross' Second Overture?

John Battelle's Searchblog

It sure sounds that way, from this NYT story.: Bill Gross, the serial entrepreneur who pioneered search advertising, is unveiling a venture on Monday that aims to make money by allowing people using Twitter to bid on key words to give their posts top ranking. I'd say this was brilliant if it weren't for the fact (OK, not fact yet, but my strong sense) that Twitter is going to do something quite similar, soon.

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IAB: Internet Ad Revenues Reach Record Quarterly High

John Battelle's Searchblog

This from the IAB's annual revenue report. I'm a board member of the IAB, FWIW. From the release: Though U.S. Internet advertising revenues, at $22.7 billion for the year, showed a 3.4% decline from 2008, there are signs of an emergent recovery in the industry. The fourth quarter of 2009 hit a record quarterly high of $6.3 billion, a 2.6% increase year-over-year and a 14% increase over the third quarter of 2009.

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Funny: From Chirp, "I Don't Get."

John Battelle's Searchblog

Ev Williams, CEO of Twitter, from stage today, notes this funny Google search suggest image.Twitter clearly has work to do.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Thumbs down for Google, Facebook Personal Privacy Concerns

Collaboration 2.0

In a week when Facebook are expanding their ‘like’ button to cover the entire internet, the heads of the data protection authorities of several countries wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt to deliver a thumbs down about the privacy rights of the world’s citizens. Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the heads of the data [.

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Help BigThink Interview.Me!

John Battelle's Searchblog

Next week, as part of HP's sponsored Input/Output series , I'll be interviewed by the folks at BigThink. Here's the link to the webcast. I hope you'll join. I'm proud to be part of this program, as past guests have included best selling thinkers/authors like Chris Anderson and James Surowiecki. I've got big shoes to fill, and I need your help to fill em.

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Brands As Publishers - Part 2

John Battelle's Searchblog

The second installment of Toward A New Understanding of Publishing is up over at the FM Blog. From it: what does it mean to have a good voice? And how does that relate to publishing? Marketers have always aligned themselves with great voices: publishers whose communities reflect the Brand’s core values and promise. Some have even taken the next step – they’ve created those communities, extending beyond making a “traditional” media buy.

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CM Summit NYC in June: Agenda Is Live

John Battelle's Searchblog

I'm pleased to announce the agenda of our 5th CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time. I'm excited about of the mix of one-on-one interviews, hand-picked case studies, and focused discussions with leaders from major brand advertisers, agencies, and digital media companies. We've also added new networking opportunities so that conversation is at the center of the conference.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Thumbs down for Google, Facebook Personal Privacy Concerns

Collaboration 2.0

In a week when Facebook are expanding their ‘like’ button to cover the entire internet, the heads of the data protection authorities of several countries wrote to Google CEO Eric.

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Hooey

John Battelle's Searchblog

My Signal post is up over at FM. In it I ranted a bit about all the iPad hype , which is particularly dense here in the Valley: The iPad is not going to change the world this week. The world takes a long time to change. It doesn’t happen in one machine, or one year, or even one decade. Now, what the iPad represents – new approaches to user interfaces, sophisticated, third-generation software applications that are connected to and feed the Internet – yes, this is a very big deal.

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Privacy, Consent and Collaboration

Collaboration 2.0

In an era when the web appears to be getting ever more invasive, and where there are undercurrents of our unwittingly collaborating in some giant marketing graph of connections and preferences.

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Privacy, Consent and Collaboration

Collaboration 2.0

In an era when the web appears to be getting ever more invasive, and where there are undercurrents of our unwittingly collaborating in some giant marketing graph of connections and preferences (today’s latest installment: Google maps cars recording MAC addresses), there’s a huge difference between being unknowingly mapped and recorded and granting consent.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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It's MY Ecosystem. MINE MINE MINE

John Battelle's Searchblog

This is simply not going to scale , Apple. It's not. OPEN UP.

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GoPro Hero HD: Wearable Digital Video Cameras

Collaboration 2.0

To see more amazing video like the base jump above, a quick search on youtube or other video sharing website under the tag gopro will yield all sorts of sporting footage. GoPro make wearable video.

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GoPro Hero HD: Wearable Digital Video Cameras

Collaboration 2.0

To see more amazing video like the base jump above, a quick search on youtube or other video sharing website under the tag gopro will yield all sorts of sporting footage. GoPro make wearable video cameras designed to capture sports footage which are also designed to be attached to the outside of high velocity racing [.

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