John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 21, 2011

One of my first "big books" out of college was James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science and it still resonates with me, though it's been so long I think I'm due for a re-read. In any case, the next book up in my ongoing self-education is Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. It's long. It's dense. It's good, so far. In fact, there's already a passage, a quote from Plato, that has struck me as germane to the ongoing threads I attempt to weave here on this site (even if all I'm

Education 110

Education Communications IT 110

Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

I met with Bobby Yazdani, CEO & President of Saba Software earlier this week at their Redwood Shores California headquarters. A substantial global company with 1400 customers and more than 19 million users across 150 countries, Saba is the piece of the enterprise stack jigsaw puzzle that first brought training and learning into the internet [.

80

80

Robert's Db2

APRIL 1, 2011

DB2 10 for z/OS, which became generally available this past October, is loaded with features and functions that can reduce the CPU cost of applications. One of my favorites is high-performance DBATs (DBATs, or database access threads, are associated with SQL statements that are issued by remote requesters using the DRDA protocol and processed via DB2's Distributed Data Facility).

Systems administration 54

Systems administration IT Access Security 54

Daradiction

APRIL 6, 2011

In the video, Kurt Daradics, President & Co-Founder of CitySourced, shares the CitySourced vision to transform civic engagement by building mobile 311 applications on a SaaS platform.

49

49

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.

IT

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 26, 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment America (“Sony”) disclosed an information security breach that may affect up to 77 million consumers. On Sony’s PlayStation blog , Patrick Seybold, Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Social Media, wrote that an unauthorized person intruded into Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music and video service between April 17 and April 19, 2011, and may have obtained users’ names, addresses, email address, birthdates, passwords

Security 40

Security Insurance Information Security Encryption 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 7, 2011

Lately in talks and private conversations, I've been thinking out loud about the role of Facebook in our lives. It's an extraordinary service (and company), and deserves its extraordinary valuation. But its approach to our "social graph" is limiting, as I and others have pointed out quite a bit. While in Mexico I had the chance to sit with a couple of entrepreneurs who have an idea I feel is deeply *right* about social networking, and it couldn't be further from how Facebook works today.

Communications 108

Communications IT 108

Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 26, 2011

It’s been a difficult Easter for online computing services: The Amazon EC2 service failed and Sony’s Playstation network was out of service over the important holiday break and continues to be down as I write this. Much has been written about these failures already, with plenty of debate particularly from those who doubt cloud computing’s credibility. [.

Cloud 77

Cloud IT 77

Robert's Db2

APRIL 22, 2011

Some of my blog posts are about DB2 things that are very new ( my previous entry described the high-performance DBATs introduced with DB2 10 for z/OS), and some cover DB2 stuff that's been out there for a while. This entry is an example of the latter. Dynamic allocation of the sort work data sets used in the execution of mainframe DB2 utilities is something that goes back at least to DB2 Version 8, and a lot if DBAs have taken advantage of this feature to improve the reliability and performance

IT 48

IT 48

Preservica

APRIL 6, 2011

We are delighted with the new users in the US, including Family Search ( see here ) and the LoC Sponsored State Archive Pilot ( see here ). We look forward to adding a lot more US users in the near future.

Archiving 40

Archiving 40

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.

Risk

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 27, 2011

On April 26, 2011, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) issued a press release unveiling its inspection goals for the coming year. In a report adopted on March 24, 2011, the CNIL indicated that it intends to conduct at least 400 inspections in France (100 more than the 2010 goal), with a special focus on the following issues: International Data Transfers.

IT 40

IT Personal data Marketing Security 40

Daradiction

APRIL 6, 2011

In the video, Kurt Daradics, President & Co-Founder of CitySourced, shares the CitySourced vision to transform civic engagement by building mobile 311 applications on a SaaS platform.

40

40

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 15, 2011

I took a ride today, and it was gorgeous as usual. That's not my story, but it's certainly a part of it. As I rode I used the AllSports GPS app on my iphone to track my progress (guys, if you're reading, your upload is busted). I knew I'd be able to see the whole ride on Google Maps later, which is cool. It also tracks stuff like distance, vertical, speed, etc.

IT 97

IT 97

Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Cisco CEO John Chambers has been bold in his experimentation with âco-ordinate and cultivateâ over âcommand and controlâ at the helm of the forty billion dollar global behemoth over the last several years, as I have previously written here. Where Chambers is taking the Cisco Network next was the subject of an internal email (now made [.

77

77

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.

Security

Scary Beasts Security

APRIL 27, 2011

Over the past few years, there have been various high-profile incidents and concerns with the Certificate Authority-based infrastructure that underpins https connections. Various different efforts are underway to tackle the problem; many are enumerated here: [link] And in terms of things baked directly into the browser, we have things like Firefox's Certificate Patrol add-on: [link] My colleague Adam Langley summarized some features and directions we've been exploring in Chromium recently, it's

Security 23

Security IT 23

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 28, 2011

(NB: Much has been written and said on this topic, and this post is in no way complete. We'll be exploring this issue and many others related to data at the Web 2 Summit this Fall). Perhaps the largest problem blocking our industry today is the retardation of consumer-driven data sharing. We're all familiar with the three-year standoff between Google and Facebook over crawling and social graph data.

Libraries 96

Libraries Data collection Data Privacy Authentication 96

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 25, 2011

If you've been reading my musings these past few months, you may have noticed an increasing fascination with data. Who owns it (the creator, the service, both? Who has access to it - ISPs? Device makers? Marketers? The government? And how are we as an industry leveraging data to create entirely new classes of services? Well, expect a lot more musing here, because (finally!

Government 94

Government Paper Marketing Privacy 94

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 17, 2011

For my next book (no really, I'm starting to work on it in my copious spare time), I've begun to read in earnest. I've got a rather long list, and I'm not sure I'll get to them all, but for those that I do read, I plan to do a quick review here, if for no other reason than to prove I read the damn thing, and had an opinion. Because the next book is a report from the future, I figured I may as well start with the NYT bestseller The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedma

IT 91

IT Access Security 91

Advertisement

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.

IT

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 11, 2011

We're very excited to announce the theme and initial speaker lineup for our 6th annual Conversational Marketing Summit. The Summit will take place June 6-7th in New York City, at the Hudson Theater and Millennium Broadway Hotel. Our theme is Finding the Signal. Speakers at our annual anchor event include Laura Desmond , CEO of Starcom MediaVest, Tim Westergren , Founder of Pandora, David Karp , Founder of Tumblr, Antonio Lucio , CMO of Visa, and Judy McGrath , Chair and CEO of MTV Networks.

Marketing 89

Marketing 89

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 11, 2011

This headline caught my eye this morning: US VCs Raised $7.7 Billion In Q1, Highest Influx In A Decade. Of course, if you 've been following the news in our industry, you know there's a raging debate on over whether we are in "another bubble." This news will of course be interpreted as evidence that, in fact, we are back to bubbly levels.after all, one decade ago was when we had our last big hurrah, right?

IT 86

IT 86

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 3, 2011

I'm a Guy Kawasaki fan, so this isn't really a "review" as much as an appreciation for his new book Enchantment. I read it over this weekend, it's the kind of book you could skim in an hour, or spend a lot of time with. I fell somewhere in the middle, stopping every so often to consider his advice and apply it to situations I find myself in all the time.

Sales 81

Sales IT 81

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 23, 2011

Herewith and below: Friday Signal: What's Yer 20? Apple and Google Know! ». Thursday Signal: War, Death, Skynet, Pot. Weds. Signal: This Is Your Brain, On Facebook. Tuesday Signal: We Were All Sophomores, Once And Again. Monday Signal: What *Is* The Future of Media?

72

72

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.

Customer Experience

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 17, 2011

Herewith, for all you RSS readers of Searchblog, is that other thing I do every day of the work week, Signal. If it suits your information consumption goals, sign up for Signal’s email newsletter or RSS feed on the FM home page (upper right box). Monday Signal: What *Is* The Future of Media? (Today's Signal). Friday Signal: What Is the Next Facebook?

IT 71

IT 71

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 20, 2011

Federated Media is proud to present the sixth annual Conversational Marketing Summit, June 6-7 at the fabulous Hudson Theater in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Times Square. The preliminary agenda is now up, more is coming, but you can get a pretty good sense of the lineup - it's amazing. This year’s CM Summit will bridge the conversations of FM's regional Signal conferences on one stage, bringing together the topics of content marketing, location services, mobile, data, and the real-time web

IT 69

IT Marketing 69

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 26, 2011

As part of an effort to increase penalties for violations of the country’s Personal Information Protection Act , officials in Japan plan to extend liability under that law to individual employees, according to recent reports in The Yomiuri Shimbun and The Japan Times. Currently, a company that violates the law may be fined or ordered to take remedial steps, and the company head may be imprisoned.

Security 40

Security 40

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 22, 2011

On April 11, 2011, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California declined to dismiss four of the nine claims in a class action lawsuit filed against RockYou, Inc. (“RockYou”), a publisher and developer of applications used on popular social media sites. The suit stems from a December 2009 security breach caused by an SQL injection flaw that resulted in the exposure of unencrypted user names and passwords of approximately 32 million RockYou users.

e-Discovery 40

e-Discovery Privacy Passwords Security 40

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.

Analytics

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 22, 2011

On April 14, 2011, the European Advertising Standards Alliance (“EASA”) and IAB Europe released complementary new self-regulatory standards for online behavioral advertising. This cross-industry initiative is aimed at enhancing European consumers’ control over their data and ensuring transparency, particularly with respect to advertisements that are delivered using third party online behavioral advertising.

Compliance 40

Compliance IT Privacy 40

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 19, 2011

On April 18, 2011, the European Commission (the “Commission”) adopted an Evaluation Report on the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (the “Data Retention Directive”). The Data Retention Directive requires that, for law enforcement purposes, telecommunications service and network providers (“Operators”) must retain certain categories of telecommunications data (excluding the content of the communication) for not less than six months and not more than two years.

Data preservation 40

Data preservation Mining Privacy Access 40

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 19, 2011

On April 5, 2011, Lisa Sotto , partner and head of the Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, discussed the Epsilon email breach in an interview with Tracy Kitten of Information Security Media Group. The interview covered issues such as data protection requirements for sensitive consumer data, steps companies should take to protect data and lessons to be learned from the breach.

Information Security 40

Information Security Security Privacy 40