ChiefTech
AUGUST 7, 2012
workspace design historically mirrored the organizational chart, with people jockeying to be as close as possible to the seat of all power – the CEO. But now that information revolution has made information the new seat of power, there is much more flexibility in workspace design. Historically, all sorts of technologies have impacted phyiscal workplace design.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 7, 2012
So, casually reading through thi s Fast Company story about sexy femle Twitter bots , I come across this astounding, unsubstantiated claim: My goal was to draw a straight line from a Twitter bot to the real, live person whose face the bot had stolen. In the daily bot wars–the one Twitter fights every day, causing constant fluctuations in follower counts even as brands’ followers remain up to 48% bot –these women are the most visible and yet least acknowledged victims There is w
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Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 7, 2012
With Facebook's first earnings call post IPO the digitally connected business world came of age, with hype to be replaced by alignment with the financial world's demand for demonstrated effectiveness.
Robert's Db2
AUGUST 20, 2012
About a week ago, in part 1 of this two-part blog entry, I described a situation I've encountered several times at mainframe DB2 sites over the past 20 years: CICS users complain of elongated response times for DB2-accessing transactions, and these users' complaints are backed up by CICS monitor data that indicate elevated "wait for DB2" times as being the cause of the performance degradation.
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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 24, 2012
On August 15, 2012, Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III signed the Data Privacy Act of 2012 passed earlier this year by the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives. Concerns about the creation of the National Privacy Commission and the criminal penalties associated with the Act delayed final enactment. The Data Privacy Act of 2012 is a traditional data protection law that establishes privacy as a fundamental human right.
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 6, 2012
1) Human interactions and engagement revolve around Social Objects 2) Social Objects also exist in the workplace (“Work Objects”), such as customers, projects, and products 3) The current dominant collaboration app in the enterprise, Email, does a poor job of organizing content and engagement around work objects. 4) Structure on the input side allows for superior data organization and analytics 5) This disconnect between email and work objects is a problem (for companies), and an opportunity (fo
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 9, 2012
Earlier in the week I was interviewed by a sharp producer from an Internet-based media company. That company, a relatively well-known startup in industry circles, will be launching a new site soon, and is making a documentary about the process. Our conversation put a fine point on scores of similar meetings and calls I’ve head with major media company execs, content startup CEOs, and product and business leaders at well known online content destinations.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 15, 2012
My annual recorded chat with leading HR analyst Kutik, where we cover the upcoming HR Tech conference, the mood and concerns of the HR executive, the rapid shift of focus to SaaS and associated strategic & tactical shifts.
CGI
AUGUST 16, 2012
Great ideas are found in unexpected places. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 08/16/2012 - 08:00. A key part of my role is bringing our clients ideas to life and help answer the question “is there a better way?” Essentially I do this by working with Logica’s great people, our innovation ecosystem or a combination of both. When I say our innovation ecosystem, I mean our phenomenal collection of over 300 partners that ranges from universities who are looking at some whacky research to our global alliance
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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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 31, 2012
On August 30, 2012, Taiwan’s Executive Yuan announced that the Personal Data Protection Act will become effective on October 1, 2012. In connection with the announcement, the Executive Yuan also proposed several amendments to certain controversial provisions to be discussed by the Legislative Yuan in September. Reportedly, the amendments would include the following changes: adding “medical records” as a type of sensitive personal data, and inserting exceptions to restrictions on the use of sensi
Preservica
AUGUST 8, 2012
I am pleased to announce that we will be working with the National Archives of Latvia who have become the thirteenth organisation to deploy Preservica SDB which is proving to be the long term preservation solution of choice in this demanding sector. read more.
ChiefTech
AUGUST 12, 2012
Grid is a startup app for the iPad and iPhone designed around how people use these devices and spreadsheets themselves. This is the complete opposite to a solution that makes Excel available on a tablet or smartphone. At this stage the ability to actually perform calculations is a future feature. This isn't as odd as it sounds, since the beauty of the spreadsheet on a PC is that people use them in many different way - I know someone who even uses them for basic wireframing!
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 28, 2012
…from those of you in the marketing business out there. How many of you would love to promote your product on the home page of Google, in this fashion? It’s arguably the web’s most valuable ad placement, it’s not for sale, and no one knows how much traffic or conversion it drives save Google itself. Just one more sign that the Internet Big Five are girding for a massive fight to be the platform for your life.
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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.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 30, 2012
Faxed documents and telephone voice prompts are at the heart of the thorniest bureaucracies, despite plenty of better alternatives.
Interactive Information Management
AUGUST 7, 2012
The next 5 months portend a spectacle of US Congressional battles to be waged ahead of the pending, mandatory “sequester” - automatic, mandatory federal government spending reductions of about $1 Trillion over 9 years, in non-exempt, discretionary appropriations, set to take effect 1/2/2013. Forward-thinking planners in government IT organizations, in large Programs that depend upon IT, and among the Systems Integration (SI) community are likely to dust off Enterprise Architecture skills for ana
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 24, 2012
On July 31, 2012, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced a $2.5 million settlement with Accretive Health, Inc. (“Accretive”) for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations, and various Minnesota debt collection and consumer protection laws. As we previously reported in January 2012, Accretive, which acted as a business associate to two Minnesota hospital systems, experienced a breach in July 2011 that involv
JKevinParker
AUGUST 28, 2012
Check out the SharePoint 2010 CSS Reference Chart from Heather Solomon. It is a great tool for anyone doing branding and user interface design for SharePoint 2010.
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 17, 2012
Twitter’s new rules for third-party developers have spurred an online uproar. After the company imposed stricter rules for its application programming interface, or A.P.I., on Thursday, engineers and developers picked up their virtual pitchforks and took to Twitter and blogs to decry what some described as a “bait and switch.”. Via the NYT's Bits blog.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 29, 2012
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about data recently. It’s not just reading books like The Information or Mirror Worlds (or Super Sad True Love Story , a science fiction novel that is both compelling and scary), it’s my day to day work, both at FM (where we deal with literally 25 billion ad calls and associated data a month), and in reporting the book (I’ve been to MIT, Yale, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and many other places, and the one big theme everyone is ta
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 21, 2012
Sensible voices are starting to be heard again above the noise as the new social enterprise realities mature.
Preservica
AUGUST 23, 2012
An interesting article and feedback on our talk at ICA 2012 in Brisbane, Australia from the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD), visit [link].
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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 23, 2012
On August 8, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission settled with HireRight Solutions, Inc. (“HireRight”) for failure to comply with certain Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) requirements. At first blush, the case may appear to be a simple FCRA matter – the FTC alleged that HireRight functioned as a consumer reporting agency when providing employment screening services to companies, but then failed to take steps to assure the accuracy of those reports and prevented consumers from dispute inaccurate
JKevinParker
AUGUST 4, 2012
I created an Information Architecture Taxonomy word cloud at www.wordle.net , built from the Information Architecture Taxonomy available at www.iainstitute.
ChiefTech
AUGUST 14, 2012
The word “collaboration” is so heavily over-used and over-hyped it’s becoming meaningless. People refer to all social software within a company as “collaboration,” and this causes confusion. Vendors get away with saying whatever they want because they’re not saying anything at all and companies end up failing in their “collaboration” initiatives. Via ThoughtFarmer's Social Intranet Blog.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 31, 2012
(image shutterstock ) Today I answered a question in email for a reporter who works for Wired UK. He asked smart questions, as I would expect from a Wired writer. (Some day I’ll tell you all my personal story of Wired UK – I lived over there for the better part of a year back in 1997, trying to make that magazine work. I mostly failed – but it’s up and running strong now.
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
AUGUST 7, 2012
The Data Protection Regulation is potentially back on track after a major roadblock was resolved. Germany is reported to have agreed […].
Robert's Db2
AUGUST 8, 2012
Today I'm writing about a situation that I first encountered almost 20 years ago, and which I most recently saw about three months ago: an organization with a CICS transaction workload accessing a DB2 for z/OS database reports a performance problem. The company's CICS people point to monitor data that indicate higher "wait for DB2" times when CICS transactions run long.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 20, 2012
On August 10, 2012, a federal district court in California denied Hulu’s motion to dismiss the remaining claim in a putative class action suit alleging that the online streaming video provider transmitted users’ personal information to third parties in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”). The VPPA prohibits a “video tape service provider” from transmitting personally identifiable information of “consumers,” except in certain, limited circumstances.
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