January, 2010

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Cisco 2009 3rd Party External Social Media Research Findings

Collaboration 2.0

Cisco release the results of a third-party global study today, designed to assess how organizations use consumer social networking tools to collaborate externally. Based on extensive interviews with 105 participants representing 97 organizations in 20 countries around the globe and conducted between April and September 2009, it’s the first of a two-part series that Cisco [.

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Predictions 2010

John Battelle's Searchblog

Related: 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did 2006 Predictions 2006 How I Did 2005 Predictions 2005 How I Did 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. A new decade. I like the sound of that. I'm a bit late on these, but for some reason these predictions refused to be rushed. I haven't had the contemplative time I usually get over the holidays, and I need a fair amount of that before I can really get my head around attempting something as p

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FTC’s Second Exploring Privacy Roundtable

Hunton Privacy

The Federal Trade Commission’s second “Exploring Privacy” roundtable concluded Thursday, January 28, 2010. The roundtable did not provide many firm conclusions, but it did help further refine some hard issues facing privacy protection. Although Thursday’s hearing was intended to be devoted to technology issues, the role of regulation appeared to dominate the discussions.

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On the Sunny Side of the Street

Positively RIM

In the January 19, 2010 issue of Infonomics Weekly, Editory Bryant Duhon asks: "Are We Too Negative?Avoid litigation. Stay out of jail. Avoid costs. OK, these are good goals, but do we focus too much on the negative benefits that the tools in the ECM industry provide at the expense of pointing out how valuable and effective those tools can be at providing real ROI and positive value?

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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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It was a Blue Moon, now it’s a Brand New Decade

Daradiction

Another @KurtyD Production. Click here to view the embedded video.

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Understanding the Business Value of Unstructured Environments

Collaboration 2.0

Following on from the core issues I discussed in ‘Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale‘ last November, this is a post about another recurring theme during consulting conversations: the different values, needs and understanding of structured and unstructured information and data. We are at a point where Web 2.0 is broadly understood by the mainstream web [.

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Why The Apple iPad Will Disappoint (The Obama Effect)

John Battelle's Searchblog

( image ) While the world watches the next coming of Jobs , I reflected on my gut feeling as to the iPad, and why that feeling is inherently one of disappointment (see my predictions 2010 (#5) and my post earlier this week ). And I'll admit, this one is not entirely logical. But then again, I don't always base my predictions (or my business decisions) on pure logic.

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FINRA Issues Guidance on the Use of Blogs and Social Networking

Hunton Privacy

On January 25, 2010, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) issued Regulatory Notice 10-06, Guidance on Blogs and Social Networking Web Sites (the “Guidance”) for securities firms, investment advisors and brokers. FINRA, which is the largest non-governmental financial regulator, previously had issued guidance on other issues pertaining to interactive web sites, such as participation by securities firms and their employees in Internet chat rooms discussing stocks or investments.

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Google Rolling Out Social Search: But Does It Leverage Facebook?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Forget the iPad, today Google is taking another step toward its stated goal of " making search more social." There's a lot of goodness in here, in terms of features and approach, but it's just silly to pretend you can do any of this without directly addressing the 400 million-person elephant in the room called Facebook. Put simply: I can't figure out if this new service uses my Facebook social graph.

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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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Search On: Google Does Pure Branded Advertising.

John Battelle's Searchblog

for its core property, search. And it's pretty good (it's a series of well produced ads, on YouTube, natch). I've predicted for some time that Google would have to start brand marketing itself, but so far I've only seen product marketing for Adwords or Android. This is the first time I've seen a real ad for Google.com search. See it below. (I noticed this because the teaser banner, above, was running tonight on my own site through Adsense.).

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An Apple Search Engine?

John Battelle's Searchblog

driven by the need to kick Google off the iPhone? An interesting idea. Worth thinking about. From a Businessweek article : Some analysts believe the Apple-Google battle is likely to get much rougher in the months ahead. Ovum's Yarmis thinks Apple may soon decide to dump Google as the default search engine on its devices, primarily to cut Google off from mobile data that could be used to improve its advertising and Android technology.

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The China Story

John Battelle's Searchblog

It's my sincere hope that this blows up, not over. With reports coming in that the Chinese government was most certainly behind the attack on Google and 20 other companies (and has done this before), and that the White House is now supporting Google's position , it's about time that we call a spade a spade here. What China is doing is wrong, regardless of how much debt of ours they hold.

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The Evolving Search Interface: Mobile Drives Search As App

John Battelle's Searchblog

I've said before that search interfaces, stuck in the command line interface of DOS, will at some point evolve into applications on top of a commodity search index. I further opined that Bing, in particular Bing's limited but compelling visual search , was just such an example: search as an interactive, rich application, as opposed to search as a list of results.

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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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That's TWO Ads On Google's Homepage

John Battelle's Searchblog

I remember the time when Sergey and Larry swore they'd never have ads on the homepage of Google. Last month I noted a big one for Chrome. Today there's an additional one. Now that's TWO ads! Google has its own products to market now, and it's using it's biggest firehose of attention to tell folks about them. Both are major new fronts in very large wars: Mobile and OS/Browser.

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The Thursday Signal

John Battelle's Searchblog

The iPad announcement took two months to build up, so it's not going away in one day. Today's news is dominated by Monday morning quarterbacking around the device, and so far, the fanboys and tech blogosphere are, by and large, not pleased. The image at left represent a few of the stories I've been reading across the web. I've filed them away in a folder I call "Predictions Support", as they all seem to support my thesis that the iPad would disappoint.

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Google, The Software Brand

John Battelle's Searchblog

One of my predictions this year (#2) focused on Google becoming a software brand. To my mind, every interaction with a brand strengthens a consumers understanding of what the brand means. And with that in mind, this dialog box, which has been popping up every so often on my desktop, certainly screams "Google is a software brand" to me. In the past, just two other companies have had this kind of a relationship with me: Apple and Microsoft.

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Privacy: Is Zuckerberg Misreading? Or Is This a Story at All?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Reading coverage of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's recent commentary on his company's newly changed privacy policies, I was struck with the urge to ask all of you a question: Do you think this is a big deal? Or is this simply the evolution of our society's ongoing contract with the individual, an evolution that Facebook is reflecting? In short, as Marshall submits in his article on RWW, is Facebook trailing public sentiment on privacy, or is he forging it?

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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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Search Getting Worse? What Did I Mean?!

John Battelle's Searchblog

(Excerpted from a longer post on BingTweets , part of a series I've been writing, underwritten by Bing). In my predictions this week I seemed unusually glum about the state of search, writing: Traditional search results will deteriorate to the point that folks begin to question search's validity as a service. This statement did not go unnoticed by folks in the industry, and I received quite a few emails, Tweets, and comments asking what on earth I meant.

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Ubiquitous Intelligent Internet Agents

Collaboration 2.0

A very succinct 4 minute video from Dutch think tank ECP-EPN which provides a clear layman’s view of how the internet is evolving to become ubiquitous as intelligent agents interact with everything from washing machines to intelligent devices. I have a slight issue with the term ‘Web 3.0′ given that the web is essentially browser based [.

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Tax on What? Taxonomy on the Intranet

Collaboration 2.0

This is a guest post from one of the world’s leading taxonomy and folksonomy experts Thomas Vanderwal, who can be found at Infocloud Solutions. Thomas has very kindly taken some time to share some fundamentals around the organization of information, which are fundamental to the ‘walk before you run’ aspects of organizing stuff so it’s findable [.

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Twitter Four Years On: Investing Time wisely

Collaboration 2.0

I’ve been taking a hard look at Twitter this January: it’s a service at the heart of the ’social computing’ and ‘real time web’ movement’s concepts and ideas, and I’ve found it enormously useful on a number of levels since my first ‘Tweet‘ in 2007. I recently significantly cut back on my use of Twitter since [.

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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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Twitter: Tragedy of the Commons

Collaboration 2.0

International holidays are a chance to get away from the online digital cacophony, work deadlines and stress. If you’re able to spend long enough away from the user interfaces you typically interact with it can be an odd feeling to resume interaction after a break from them. While I didn’t have that complete luxury as the [.

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The Friday Signal: Will Apple Flash Us, or Not?

John Battelle's Searchblog

The news today was still iPad driven, for the most part, with the question of whether Flash will be supported at its core. So far, the answer is no, and Adobe semi-officially chastised Apple in this post: Apple's iPad -- a broken link? However, a site called 9to5Mac studied the iPad introduction video, and found that Flash must be working on the device, because it's used on the nyt.com, which was featured in the demo: The iPad has Adobe's Flash on Apple's video.

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Weds. Signal

John Battelle's Searchblog

A brief Signal today till I can write later in the day, running to an early meeting: 20 Metrics To Effectively Track Social Media Campaigns (SEL). Supreme Court's Devastating Decision | Ronald Dworkin | NYRB | 26 January 2010 (Off topic, but I found this take interesting). Social Is the Top Priority for Marketers in 2010 [STATS] (Mashable). Yahoo CEO Eyes TV Ads, Acquisitions (GigaOm, Yahoo earnings spin: We compete with TV, not search!).

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British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner Resigns

Hunton Privacy

On January 19, 2010, Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis resigned to accept the post of Deputy Attorney General of British Columbia. Mr. Paul Fraser, the Conflict of Interest Commissioner, has been named interim Commissioner. The appointment of a permanent successor is expected in the spring when the British Columbia legislature reconvenes.

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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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Free Virtual Enterprise 2.0 Conference February 2

Collaboration 2.0

Next Tuesday 12est/9pst US time I will be keynoting with Sameer Patel during the latest iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which will be an online virtual event. Registration is free, and there is an excellent lineup of speakers for you to tune into. Morten Hansen, author of the excellent book ‘Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the [.

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The Monday Signal

John Battelle's Searchblog

Quite a weekend in marketing land, with a blast from Jason C. directed at Comscore. Sunday's feeds were alive with responses (I think this summary from TheNextWeb is a good place to start), but it boils down to this: Jason fired off an angry shot at a easy target, but with a bit more nuance, one can see that this is not a simple issue. If it were as black and white as he lays it out, Comscore would have been out of business a long time ago.

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Your Privacy, Information Transparency & Short Attention Spans

Collaboration 2.0

What looks to be a terrific US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) ‘Frontline’ program ‘Digital Nation‘ airs February 2nd in North America and will be available online internationally: the trailer is above and continues an ongoing examination by PBS of the remaking of modern culture by digital media in ways that we’re only beginning to understand.

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