John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. I’ve got a working hypothesis that we are in the process of transitioning very important portions of our “public lives” to private corporations, and that this transfer is related to our adoption of digital technologies and platforms.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The distraction of increasing volumes of digital noise is arguably creating ‘information deflation’, which is causing quality information to be harder to find, have a shorter lifecycle and quickly become devalued

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada, site of the 2011 IBM Information on Demand conference (aka IOD). This is the first of several entries I'll post this week to my blog, with highlights from some of the DB2 sessions I've attended. Today I want to share with you good stuff that I picked up from two excellent presentations: one, delivered yesterday to a group of IBMers, on the new IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, and one about DRDA best practices in a DB2 for z/OS environment.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Members of Parliament on the House of Commons Justice Select Committee have called for courts in the United Kingdom to be given greater powers to imprison and fine individuals who breach the Data Protection Act (“DPA”). The Committee stated in its October 18, 2011 report that the current penalties for unlawfully obtaining personal data (under Section 55 of the DPA) are an inadequate deterrent, and urged the government to exercise its power to introduce prison sentences without delay.

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Followers of this Blog may have noticed that, while there are eight Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP), there were only seven Limericks of GARP. The limerick on Compliance was lost to the sands of time (or at least to 2010). However, inspired by this week's ARMA International conference, I humbly submit a middling effort to complete the series: The two principles of compliance Are easier than rocket science Regs are observed And policies served Without compromise or defiance Note

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Our dinner conversant at Web 2 Summit is Dick Costolo , the CEO of Twitter. Why pick Costolo for dinner? Because he's pretty damn funny, besides being the CEO of Twitter, that's why. And when it comes to dinner, you need some levity. Not that Twitter doesn't have some serious issues to talk about. I've outlined them in full throat on this site; if you want the latest, read The Future of Twitter Ads , for a start.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I’m late getting this up on my site, but in case you have not seen it yet, you can watch the livestream right here: web20tv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Readers will recall my multiple calls for “ metaservices ” that begin to unify our disparate online worlds of data. Today’s announcement of Slice , which does just that for online purchases, albeit through an email hack, is a step in that direction. Readers will also recall that “Purchases” are one of the key fields in my “ Database of Intentions ” graph.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

…on the Web 2 Summit “Data Frame” map. It’s kind of fun to think about your company (or any company) as a compendium of various data assets. We’ve added a “build your own city” feature to the map, and while there are a couple bugs to fix (I’d like to be able to add my own icon, for example), it’s pretty fun to do.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

on the Web 2 Summit "Data Frame" map. It's kind of fun to think about your company (or any company) as a compendium of various data assets. We've added a "build your own city" feature to the map, and while there are a couple bugs to fix (I'd like to be able to add my own icon, for example), it's pretty fun to do. I built a city for Federated Media , naturally.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Today Federated Media Publishing announced it has acquired Lijit Networks , a world-class business partner to online publishers based in Boulder, Colorado. This combination is the result of literally months of work, including a ton of strategic thinking that dates back to Federated's acquisitions of Foodbuzz , Big Tent , and TextDigger last year. With reach into nearly 200 million uniques, Lijit is a major player in what we at Federated call " the Independent Web.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

( image ) Early this year I wrote File Under: Metaservices, The Rise Of , in which I described a problem that has burdened the web forever, but to my mind is getting worse and worse. The crux: “…heavy users of the web depend on scores – sometimes hundreds – of services, all of which work wonderfully for their particular purpose (eBay for auctions, Google for search, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, etc).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

( image ) Early this year I wrote File Under: Metaservices, The Rise Of , in which I described a problem that has burdened the web forever, but to my mind is getting worse and worse. The crux: ".heavy users of the web depend on scores - sometimes hundreds - of services, all of which work wonderfully for their particular purpose (eBay for auctions, Google for search, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, etc).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

( image ) Early this year I wrote File Under: Metaservices, The Rise Of , in which I described a problem that has burdened the web forever, but to my mind is getting worse and worse. The crux: ".heavy users of the web depend on scores - sometimes hundreds - of services, all of which work wonderfully for their particular purpose (eBay for auctions, Google for search, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, etc).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Thanks to Brian Solis for taking the time to sit down with me and talk both specifically about my upcoming book, as well as many general topics.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I appreciate all you Searchblog readers out there who are getting tired of my relentless Web 2 Summit postings. And I know I said my post about Reid Hoffman was the last of its kind. And it was, sort of. Truth is, there are a number of other interviews happening as well, ones that I am not personally doing. And I wanted to post a last chance for any of you to ask any of these folks questions as well.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I appreciate all you Searchblog readers out there who are getting tired of my relentless Web 2 Summit postings. And I know I said my post about Reid Hoffman was the last of its kind. And it was, sort of. Truth is, there are a number of other interviews happening as well, ones that I am not personally doing. And I wanted to post a last chance for any of you to ask any of these folks questions as well.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Tons of folks have asked me for the “official” playlist this year. Each year I choose music to sample while folks are coming on or off stage, or as the audience comes in or out of the main room. This year I was hit with a wave of nostalgia – for reasons that I’ll explain later – and I made a list that spanned nearly all eight years I’ve been programming the event.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Day Three kicks off with James Gleick , the man who has written the book of the year, at least if you are a fan of our conference theme. As I wrote in my review of “The Information,” Gleick’s book tells the story of how, over the past five thousand or so years, mankind has managed to create symbols which abstract meaning and intent into forms that are communicable beyond time and space… The work really picks up speed as it describes the rise of early telecommunications, t

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Day Three kicks off with James Gleick , the man who has written the book of the year, at least if you are a fan of our conference theme. As I wrote in my review of "The Information,". Gleick's book tells the story of how, over the past five thousand or so years, mankind has managed to create symbols which abstract meaning and intent into forms that are communicable beyond time and space.The work really picks up speed as it describes the rise of early telecommunications, the role of information i

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Yesterday I went over the the Bloomberg West studios to talk with my old pal Cory Johnson. In six short minutes we covered a lot of ground. Video is below.

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

For the first time in eight years, Mary Meeker will let me ask her a few questions after she does her famous market overview. Each year, Mary pushes the boundaries of how many slides she can cram into one High Order Bit, topping out at 70+ slides in ten or so minutes last year. But given her move this year from star Internet analyst at Morgan Stanley to high-profile VC, I asked if Mary might spend another ten or so minutes with us to answer a few questions.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Next up on Day 3 of Web 2 is Vic Gundotra , the man responsible for what Google CEO Larry Page calls the most exciting and important project at this company: Google+. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve heard as varied a set of responses to any Google project as I have for Google+. Traffic is up in a huge way , state many reports, then, no, it’s down as much as 60%.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Next up on Day 3 of Web 2 is Vic Gundotra , the man responsible for what Google CEO Larry Page calls the most exciting and important project at this company: Google+. It's been a long, long time since I've heard as varied a set of responses to any Google project as I have for Google+. Traffic is up in a huge way , state many reports, then, no, it's down as much as 60%.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Not unlike Steve Jobs back in the 1990s, Michael Dell returned to the helm of his company at a crucial moment, when his namesake was seemingly rudderless. Back in 2007, Dell was losing marketshare to HP, Apple had not yet proven the monster it has since become in mobile, and tablets were something used on factory floors. Since then, Dell has redoubled its efforts in tablets and mobile, reworked its product line to compete with Apple's resurgent MacBooks, but seen his stock price only slightly re

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Next up on the Web 2 Summit interview docket is John Donahoe , President and CEO of eBay. This marks a return of sorts for eBay to the Summit stage, it's been four years since former CEO Meg Whitman joined us. Much has changed - eBay faces significant competition in its PayPal business, and unwound its Skype acquisition, for example. It also purchased GSI Commerce, a company that might best be called a "white label Amazon.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley will give his first 1-1 interview on the Web 2 stage on the conference's second day, following a morning of High Order Bits and a conversation on privacy policy with leaders from government in both the US and Canada. After Crowley will be a conversation with noted investor Ben Horowitz, then a discussion with leaders from both Visa and American Express.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Next up on the list of interesting folks I’m speaking with at Web 2 are Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo , the founders of Quora. Cheever and D’Angelo enjoy (or suffer from) Facebook alumni pixie dust – they left the social giant to create Quora in 2009. It grew quickly after its public launch in 2010, inspiring some to claim it was the best structured Q&A site ever.

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