John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 5, 2009
Early this year, well, January 1, to be exact, I made this prediction about our friends at Apple: Apple will see a significant reversal of recent fortunes. I sense this will happen for a number of reasons. but I think the main one will be brand related - a brand based on being cooler than the other guy simply does not scale past a certain point. I sense Apple has hit that point.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 16, 2009
Here’s another YouTube video - ‘Social Media Revolution’ - conflating a lot of stats in order to make a case for ‘Social Media‘ being the ‘biggest shift since the industrial revolution‘ Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us started this style of delivery and really amplified the potency of the Web 2.0 movement in 1997.
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Daradiction
AUGUST 11, 2009
My pal David Kralik has a vison of a world that works, and offers practical, common sense ‘trans-party’ solutions. This is part of the “Google Talks&# Series that’s interesting to follow. David is lots of fun to hang out with too. He’s a man on a mission. Worth the hour. Click here to view the embedded video.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 31, 2009
On August 19, 2009, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl €36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data. The case was triggered by a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel. A Bochum resident found papers and forms containing Lidl employees’ health data in a trash bin at a car wash and forwarded them to the magazine.
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Scary Beasts Security
AUGUST 12, 2009
Not much of interest to add beyond the interesting network isolation support previously discussed. Some minor bugs were fixed. A bunch of compile errors were addressed. There is now support for PAM modules which remap the underlying user account. There is also a new command-line option to pass config file options directly.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 12, 2009
A month ago I posted that Twitter was back to strong growth after a weak month of June. I just took at look at the numbers for August, which you can see in the screen shot here (I'm using Compete's data , but you can check out Quantcast , which is a "rough estimate" and has not posted any July data yet.). Twitter is still growing, according to this data, but not at the breakneck pace of the past.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 11, 2009
An interesting US national poll from Common Sense Media asking ‘is social networking changing childhood?‘ opens up some wider issues. Common sense media suggest their poll… …illustrates a continuing disconnect between parents and kids when it comes to kids’ digital lives. In today’s society, there is more technology and less time for parents to supervise their kids’ actions and [.
Daradiction
AUGUST 25, 2009
Hey gang- Huge BIG favor that might be really easy for you. Do you have any examples of where any sort of civic engagement outreach/campaign affected legislation? I’m looking for more granular examples than a response like “the civil rights movement&# , but more so examples of specific petitions or letter writing campaigns that might have contributed to getting some sort of legislation passed.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 28, 2009
On August 17, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a final rule (“FTC Final Rule”) addressing security breaches of personal health records (“PHRs”). The FTC Final Rule applies to all breaches discovered on or after September 24, 2009, and to “foreign and domestic vendors of personal health records, PHR related entities, and third party service providers” that “maintain information of U.S. citizens or residents.
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Scary Beasts Security
AUGUST 5, 2009
Apple just released the Mac OS X 10.5.8 update, which includes security fixes: [link] One of the fixes is for a heap-based buffer overflow in the ColorSync component (which handles the parsing of ICC profiles). Limited details are here: [link] This vulnerability could likely be used to execute arbitrary code in contexts such as Safari browsing to a malicious page.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 13, 2009
Matt Cutts points to a video interview (embedded above) on Google's Caffeine infrastructure update. "It's a pretty fundamentally big change" Matt says. What I'd like to know is why and in response to what changes on the web. Of course, the major changes in how the web works are clear: Real Time Search. In this post (and/or this one ) I said: In short, Google represents a remarkable achievement: the ability to query the static web.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 27, 2009
Three posts about ‘failure’ in the ‘Enterprise 2.0′ space in the last few days from Sameer Patel (’Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure’ guest blogging on Michael Krigmans’ ‘IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise 2.0: what a crock).
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 13, 2009
Google's new iGoogle upgrades smacks of Facebook. Read this: we're excited to introduce social gadgets for iGoogle. Social gadgets let you share, collaborate and play games with your friends on top of all the things you can already do on your homepage. The 19 social gadgets we're debuting today offer many new ways to make your homepage more useful and fun.
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Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 19, 2009
I’ve got a first gen iPhone and live in San Francisco, the heart of Apple country. The voice communication part of it has been slowly getting worse and is now virtually unusable. A first gen iphone is of course ancient history to an Apple or Mobile Tech fanboy but the reality is many people are [.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 3, 2009
For those who think collaboration technology simply breaks down rigid command and control management hierarchies, consider the origins of the term: the military. The US military have had a significant online presence with various online forums for rank and file, commanders and other lines of business - all behind user name and password of course - [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 18, 2009
Hey, I really like the soundtrack. And it's f*ing true as well. My beef with this is this simple statement, about 3:42 in. "Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in how we communicate.". True, to a point. What it really is, is the release of how we already communicate, but now at scale. It's not a shift in *how* we communicate, it's a step function in our *ability* to communicate.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 19, 2009
Regarding this story in the New York Times : With Bloggers in the Bleachers, Leagues See a Threat to Profits. (and related, my post on " Don't Be a Player Platform Hater "): I have such a rant in me on this topic but I simply cannot write it now, I'm way to Supposed to Be On Vacation. But suffice to say, you can do two things if you "own content" - like, say, football games (yep, that's content).
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John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 17, 2009
Back when I predicted this in January , I recall worrying I was calling it too early. Now it appears the timing was about right. From Mashable : while Google grew from June to July, it still lost market share to its competitors – from 66.1% in June to 64.8% in July, a 1.3 percentage point drop. From my prediction: 3. Google will see search share decline significantly for the first time ever.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 13, 2009
Last weekend’s New York Times technology section piece about Microsoft Sharepoint is still their ninth most emailed tech story nearly a week later. ‘Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession‘ is very general: Companies like Ferrari, Starbucks and Viacom have used SharePoint to create their public-facing Web sites and for various other tasks. but “We don’t claim we do everything,” [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 12, 2009
Multiple sources are reporting Facebook is testing "Facebook Lite" - what some are calling a Twitter version of Facebook. Mashable , RWW have more, TC got an official response from Facebook, which makes it sound like it's not a Twitter competitor. Interesting. Reminds me of my prediction on the two companies back in January: Facebook will build a Twitter competitor, but it will never leave beta and will ultimately be abandoned as not worth the time.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 11, 2009
Facebook's previously announced realtime engine has been released, coverage from Mashable: Fast forward to today: Facebook just announced that it is rolling out the new Facebook search. With realtime search and FriendFeed in its pocket, Facebook is gunning directly for Twitter. Also for Mashable, a story on Google's " major revision " of its engine.
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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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 17, 2009
As part of BingTweets , an FM/Microsoft promotion blending the two services, I was asked to opine on the idea of how we use the web to make decisions. My first post has been up for a while but I managed to lose track of time and forgot to let you all know about it. I wrote a piece called " Decisions are Never Easy - So Far " - and have already written a followup piece, though that one is yet to be published.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 27, 2009
(image). Very interesting news yesterday about Google Adsense and competing ad networks. From ClickZ: Google plans to open its AdSense network to other ad networks, potentially giving the already huge ad net access to display ads flowing through countless other networks. The firm yesterday said it will allow networks to bid via auction to have their ads appear on AdSense partner sites, like an exchange.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 30, 2009
An intriguing and very well written article in this week’s Economist documents Cisco CEO John Chamber’s ambitious plans to conquer 30 new areas of business: …From “virtual health care” to “cloud computing” and “safety and security” to “routers in space”, the company is tackling more than 30 “market adjacencies”, as new areas of growth are called [.
Daradiction
AUGUST 31, 2009
Seth Godin continues to inspire me with his insights, simple yet so practical. Who gets to decide what you want? When George Washington was a teenager, did he really, really, really want a car? Unlikely. In order to want something, you probably need to know it exists. But my guess is that it surely helps if you’ve been marketed to. One definition of happiness is wanting the things you’re likely to get (or, conversely, not wanting the unattainable).
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John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 9, 2009
I've been meaning to post a long-ish rant on the importance of celebrities taking control of their own platforms, but never gotten to it, in part because I'm not that enamored with the incessant selling of celebrity that occurs in our culture. Yeah, I sound like a grumpy old man, but I can't help myself. It bums me out - not because I don't like celebrities, but because the current approach strikes me as driven by short term thinking.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 7, 2009
Sorry, it's late, and I just saw this piece in the NYT. But for Bartz to say that Yahoo was never a search company is simply not true. Yahoo was the original search destination, and a place folks first learned to "search" for stuff on the Web. As the original directory of things worth paying attention on the Web, Yahoo was - and remains for many - the definitive place to start a search query.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 6, 2009
Two key members of the winning Booz Allen Hamilton ‘Hello‘ team, to whom I presented the Open Enterprise 2009 trophy at June’s Enterprise 20 conference in Boston, discuss the realities of their collaboration environment above. Megan Murray & Donna Lucas are in the trenches working with technology and change management respectively at Booz Allen.
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