John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
Back when I was reporting the book, I remember a meeting I had with Gary Flake , then the lead technologist at Overture, now a Fellow at Microsoft running Live Labs, responsible for stuff like Seadragon, Photosynth, and now, Pivot, an experimental approach to large datasets that attempts to rethink some fundamental approaches to what we understand search to be today.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker’s birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. (The paper version is a keeper). Drucker’s tremendous body of work has been distilled into the usual bumper sticker phrases [.
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Daradiction
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Darrell Smith is one of my favorite people on the planet, plus he’s playing one of my all time favorite tones (something he says he made for me, but I hardly believe him). What I love about Darrell is he brings out the best version of me. Truly a hero of mine, and so I’m honored to call him a friend. So take a listen and dive in to some deep tone and check out what the M13 box can do.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
On November 12, 2009, the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V., “vzbv”), a non-governmental organization acting as an umbrella for 41 German consumer associations announced that the social networks Xing, MySpace, Facebook, Lokalisten, Wer-kennt-Wen and StudiVZ signed undertakings that they would discontinue use of certain terms and conditions and data protection provisions.
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Positively RIM
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
My whirlwind visit to the Greater Anchorage Chapter of ARMA last week opened my eyes to the widespread thirst and need for understanding our discipline, Records and Information Management. As the Chapter convened under the able leadership of President Toby Allen, I saw that the attending practitioners sense that thirst in their organizations, and they came for tools to quench it.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
I had a birthday a few weeks ago and to mark the occasion, my wife bought me a Kindle. OK, yes, I'm a pretty digital guy, and despite writing my 1992 Berkeley Master's thesis on "The Future of Print in the Age of Interactivity" - a thesis that celebrated the rise of a digital tablet fed by a world wide network - I didn't run out and buy a Kindle as soon as they came on the market.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
We all think we know the internet - the service that has magically transmitted these words from my keyboard to your eyeballs - but how much do you know of the fundamentals? As I wrote about last year, the plumbing of the internet is surprisingly basic. “ although we tend to think of it as a “network of [.
Daradiction
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
If you don’t yet know about Charity Water, it’s an amazing story. In just three years it’s blossomed to an international movement to provide clean water to folks that need it. This year they raised $12M so far is the word on the street. Truly and inspiring story from Charity Water founder Scott Harrison, also video below: ——————-.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
On November 24, 2009, the European Parliament formally approved the European Union’s telecoms reform package. This reform proposed by the European Commission in November 2007 consists of various different EU Directives that set-up the legal framework applicable to the electronic communications sector (telecoms) and includes a new e-Privacy Directive.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Today I had quite an experience with United Airlines. It has very little to do with much of anything I usually write about here, save one key element: I have posited that to succeed in what I've been calling the Conversation Economy , companies must learn to have conversations with their customers at scale. Well, here's a tale of one company failing miserably at doing just that, even while, in the end, due to my own insistence (and most likely, the rising level of anger in my voice), it kind of,
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Look. Sure, it's a mobile ad platform, and sure, Google wants to play there, more than they already are. OK. Fine. But really. What's the play? Droid. Data. Droid. Iphone App Data. Droid. K? Data. Just to be clear. Data. About what works, on iPhone apps, so they can leverage it.for Droid. K.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
From Biz' post on Twitter's shift : Twitter helps you share and discover what's happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. "What are you doing?" isn't the right question anymore—starting today, we've shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, "What's happening?". Well, regardless of spin, this is a major shift, to my mind.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
You imagine something out loud in a book, and then it starts to happen. I am sure many of you have heard of RedLaser, but I hadn't until today. I love it! Here's the text from my blog post , written in 2004 (pre iPhone, so I used a Treo.) which I rewrote into the book: What to do? Not to worry, you’ve got Google Mobile Shop installed on your phone. You whip out your Treo 950, the one with the infrared UPC reader installed, and you wand it over that bottle of 2001 Clos Du Val now lovingly cradled
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
Sheesh. Just give Google summary text and headlines to index (like the WSJ does now). Then do your best to convert would be readers to your paid model. That's it. What's the big deal? The rest is bluster.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Saw this greeting me whilst on Twitter.com today (gotta love WiFi on a plane): Nice to see Twitter rolling out so many new things, like Lists, which seems to be taking off (though I find the lack of a discovery interface vexing, for now). Retweeting is integrated in an elegant way, tweets that have been retweeted have a little cycled arrow icon, which identifies tweets that folks you've followed have retweeted.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
It’s not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis’s Google ‘reverse engineering’ book ‘What Would Google Do?’ hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis’s publisher Harper Collins claims this book is ‘all about you‘ in their promo blurb - how you can apply Google thinking to your business [.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Time is Money: Where’s the Beef? The now biannual US ‘Enterprise 2.0‘ conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology enthusiasts but in the world of the enterprise - [.
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Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 27, 2009
Twitter Japan (Digital Garage), which is already advertising supported, are experimenting with a pay per tweet model. Media.asia are reporting According to local reports, the plan will allow audiences to view some text on all tweets but will charge a fee to unlock access to certain images, external URLs and text. Users willing to pay to view [.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary ‘rainman’ platform, which enabled partners to build out their anchor stores in the massive [.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
We’re at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it’s hard to know what sort of scale is being described. Small and medium business needs are typically very different to ‘enterprise’, which [.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 8, 2009
In the aftermath of last week’s San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there’s been some lively debate about what constitutes ‘2.0′, including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set of new tools for instant messaging, e-mail, social networking, videoconferencing, document and video [.
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.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above (a still from a Flip video) is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video camera. If you aren’t aware of Flip cameras yet they are essentially high quality [.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
On October 29, 2009, the European Commission (the “Commission”) proceeded to the second phase of infringement proceedings against the UK relating to the UK’s implementation of EU e-privacy and personal data protection laws. EU Member States must ensure the confidentiality of communications by prohibiting interception and surveillance without user’s consent.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
On November 6, 2009, the French Senate proposed a new draft law to reinforce the right to privacy in the digital age (“Proposition de loi visant à garantir le droit à la vie privée à l’heure du numérique”) (the “Draft Law”). Following a Report on the same topic issued last spring, the Senate made concrete proposals with this Draft Law to amend the Data Protection Act.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Today, eight federal financial regulatory agencies issued a final Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) model privacy notice. The final model notice incorporates financial institutions’ required disclosures pursuant to Section 503 of the GLBA. The GLBA requires, in relevant part, that financial institutions provide consumers with information regarding their collection and sharing of nonpublic personal information.
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Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
In a closed session on November 5, 2009, the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners adopted the International Standards on the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy (the “Standards”). Although the document is advisory in nature and is not legally binding, it offers guidance to States that have not yet adopted comprehensive data protection laws.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
On November 9, 2009, Connecticut’s Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, announced an investigation of whether Blue Cross and Blue Shield (“BCBS”) violated Connecticut’s data breach notification law by waiting until two months after a data breach had occurred to notify affected Connecticut residents. The data breach, which Attorney General Blumenthal called “one of the most sizable and significant in Connecticut’s history,” involved the theft of a laptop containing confidential unencrypted data
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Every year since 2005, the United States, the European Commission and the Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection meet to review the latest developments in the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, as well as changes in privacy compliance, information security and data protection. This year’s International Conference on Cross Border Data Flows, Data Protection and Privacy occurs November 16 – 18 and features leading experts who will examine these issues and others, as well as changes made t
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