April, 2013

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Harley Earl's influence on Steve Jobs

Collaboration 2.0

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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OpenCo Is Coming To NYC, But Only If You Support It: Please Help Us!

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post OpenCo Is Coming To NYC, But Only If You Support It: Please Help Us! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A year or so ago a friend and colleague approached me with a crazy idea – what if we tried to re-invent the tech conference, expanding it to become a celebration of all innovative companies that are inspired by the values of the open Internet?

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Where is the next generation Google Reader?

ChiefTech

The reaction to Google's decision to kill off Google Reader has been interesting to watch. Those that use it (including myself) all expressed their disappointment, with some clearly prepared to protest to the bitter end. Then there are the others who can't understand what the fuss is all about, since in their opinion RSS is clearly dead. I also saw an ironic comment from someone who - thanks to all the coverage - had just discovered Google Reader for the first time and realised how effective it

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DB2 for z/OS: Goodbye "Security" Views, Hello Row Permissions and Column Masks

Robert's Db2

It's an age-old requirement -- one that's been around as long as DB2 itself: ensure that a particular group of users can see only certain rows in a given table, and/or ensure that values in a certain column of the table are transformed before being returned to users in the group. For example, employees who work in a branch office of an organization might be permitted to see information in a CUSTOMER table for customers assigned to that branch, but prohibited from seeing information for customers

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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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Business Archives Council spring newsletter: digital archiving and preservation for business – getting started is easier than you think

Preservica

There is always something that stops me getting started, by Colin Smith. Speaking with a number of corporate archivists and record managers I often hear that it’s easy to become stuck formulating the perfect archiving solution, and not really get started on implementing it. read more on page 2.

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Harley Earl's influence on Steve Jobs

Collaboration 2.0

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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We’ve Seen This Movie Before…On Traffic of Good Intent

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post We’ve Seen This Movie Before…On Traffic of Good Intent appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) Back in 2005 I whipped off a post with a title that has recently become relevant again – “ Traffic of Good Intent.” That post keyed off a major issue in the burgeoning search industry – click fraud.

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Picking the right tool for the job: SharePoint vs Wordpress

ChiefTech

'SharePoint is a sophisticated platform that supports a whole range of functionality, although it is perhaps best thought of as a Web content management system or document collaboration platform. This doesn''t mean it is always the best platform out of the box for specific contexts or use cases. One SharePoint consultant, Joel Oleson , has been bravely blogging with SharePoint, but has decided to migrate to Wordpress: "Microsoft has never invested a lot in their blogs.

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Belgian Privacy Commission Refers Data Breach Case to Public Prosecutor

Hunton Privacy

On April 29, 2013, the Belgian Privacy Commission announced that it referred a data breach case involving The National Belgian Railway Company to the Brussels Public Prosecutor. The data breach, which occurred in December 2012, resulted in the 1.46 million sets of customer data being made publicly available online. The Privacy Commission investigated the case and concluded that there had been a violation of the Belgian Data Protection Act, but since the Privacy Commission does not have the autho

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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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Why cloud storage and digital preservation

Preservica

I have been saying for quite some time now that while cloud storage provides some necessary features for digital preservation it is not a digital preservation system in and of itself. See the digital preservation maturity model for my thoughts on this. So it was great to see the Instrumental report on Digital Preservation and Cloud Services (Public) arriving at the same conclusion.

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Clearing up for SIaM

CGI

Clearing up for SIaM. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Fri, 04/26/2013 - 08:00. Listening to others talk about Service Integration and Management (SIaM) last week strangely made me think about more domestic matters – trying to find a cleaner for my house. I will explain…. SIaM has appeared as the IT industry has matured beyond outsourcing on the basis of ‘your mess for less’ towards maximising the benefits of a multi-supplier environment through strong integration and management expertise from a Service Int

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Harley Earl's influence on Steve Jobs

Collaboration 2.0

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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The First 60 OpenCos in NYC, Visualized

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post The First 60 OpenCos in NYC, Visualized appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Just got this up on our site, which is close to opening general admission (free to the public). So proud. Many more to come, but the deadline to sign up is soon, so if you want to be part of the movement, head here. More on OpenCo NY here. The post The First 60 OpenCos in NYC, Visualized appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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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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Infor launches Ming.le - focusing on a social user experience for enterprise systems

ChiefTech

'A late entrant to the enterprise social software market, last year enterprise software company Infor launched Infor10 SocialSpaces. This week they announced an upgrade to this concept , called Ming.le: Listening to the media messages and watching the recording of their user conference keynote , this update is all about creating a user experience led design.

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FTC Issues Updated FAQs Addressing COPPA Compliance Requirements

Hunton Privacy

On April 25, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission released an updated version of its frequently asked questions regarding the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). The revised FAQs, entitled Complying with COPPA: Frequently Asked Questions (A Guide for Business and Parents and Small Entity Compliance Guide), provide general information on COPPA’s requirements and also include new guidance on the recent amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA Rule”)

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Application Performance: When Reducing Concurrency can Improve Throughput

Robert's Db2

There's an interesting application performance situation that I've encountered several times over the past twenty years or so, most recently a couple of weeks ago. I was talking with a DBA over lunch at a regional DB2 users group meeting. He mentioned that he and some of his colleagues had been working to address a performance problem involving a purchased application that accessed a DB2 for z/OS-managed database.

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Elevate II electrically adjustable height standing desk is a revelation

Collaboration 2.0

'Great quality desk that effortlessly adjusts up and down makes your working day go more smoothly and comfortably'

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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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Elevate II electrically adjustable height standing desk is a revelation

Collaboration 2.0

'Great quality desk that effortlessly adjusts up and down makes your working day go more smoothly and comfortably.

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From quill to mobile

Collaboration 2.0

'Unless we focus on where the central core of working together is, organizations are doomed to choke on outmoded ways of working.

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From quill to mobile

Collaboration 2.0

Unless we focus on where the central core of working together is, organizations are doomed to choke on outmoded ways of working.

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Events I'm attending in April & May

ChiefTech

'I have a collection of different events, mostly in Sydney, that I''m planning on attending this month and in early May: This week, you will find me at: ShareThePoint (Sydney) conference, 10th & 11th April - This is Australasia’s biggest SharePoint event that tours Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. If you can''t make Sydney, they will be in Melbourne in June.

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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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Does IT matter… in Australian supermarkets?

ChiefTech

'Writing in ITNews, technology journalist Liz Tay compares the IT strategies of Australia''s major banks and supermarkets - she see parallels with a University of Melbourne paper that categorised CIOs as either "trusted senior executive leader" (Commonwealth Bank, Woolworths) or "chief technology mechanic” (Westpac, Coles). She quotes Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy, who comments: "IT isn''t the be all and end all," Sheedy said.

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Harley Earl's influence on Steve Jobs

Collaboration 2.0

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Enacts Draft Rules on Personal Information

Hunton Privacy

On April 10, 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (the “MIIT”) enacted two draft rules (“Provisions on the Protection of Personal Information of Telecommunications and Internet Users” and “Provisions on the Registration of Real Identity Information of Telephone Users”) to solicit public comments.

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German Court Rejects DPA’s Appeal, Finds Irish Law Applicable to Facebook in Germany

Hunton Privacy

On April 22, 2013, the higher administrative court of Schleswig issued two decisions rejecting an appeal by the data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein (“Schleswig DPA”) that sought to challenge a lower court’s earlier rulings in Facebook’s favor. These decisions provide useful clarification regarding how national data protection law applies when an international business maintains several legal entities in different EU member states.

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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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FTC Seeks Input on The Internet of Things

Hunton Privacy

On April 17, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release seeking public input on “The Internet of Things” – the ability of numerous “everyday devices to communicate with each other and with people.” The FTC will accept comments through June 1, 2013, in advance of a public workshop to be held in Washington, D.C. on November 21, 2013. The FTC acknowledges that the rapidly accelerating capability of consumer goods to interact with other consumer goods, customers and businesses offers

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Obama Administration Threatens to Veto CISPA

Hunton Privacy

On April 16, 2013, the Office of the President issued a Statement of Administration Policy that includes a threat to veto the U.S. House of Representatives’ Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (“CISPA” or H.R. 624) if further changes are not made to the bill’s privacy protections. Specifically, the Obama Administration recommends that the bill require private entities to remove personal information when sharing cybersecurity information with the government or other private entities.

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Department of Commerce Provides Clarification Regarding the Safe Harbor Framework and Cloud Computing

Hunton Privacy

On April 12, 2013, the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (“ITA”) issued a guidance document to clarify how the U.S.-European Union Safe Harbor Framework facilitates the transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States in the cloud computing context. The document underscores that the U.S.- European Union Safe Harbor Framework is an officially recognized means of complying with the adequacy requirement of EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

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