John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distribution and printing presses: all very expensive, so once you employ enough capital to gain them, it's damn hard to get knocked out.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Dennis Howlett wrote an excellent post earlier on the gravity defying, ever increasing flow of maintenance revenue that Oracle continues to report ‘thanks to great sales people’ Dennis suggests in ‘How Oracle gets customers to keep paying‘ that Oracle ‘knows’ what its customers are using thanks to sophisticated application use by seat sniffing software, and can [.
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Daradiction
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
The past two months has been a blur. I wake up early, at my desk by 7am. It’s back to back meetings till really late at night. Highlights: We’ve closed significant funding for CitySourced/FreedomSpeaks. We’ve been nominated to Davos. We were selected to the Finals of the Knight Foundation grant. Lord knows I’ve been busy, but even though we’re seeing traction, I still don’t feel like I’m really getting that much done, sorta spinning my wheels.
Preservica
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We are currently reviewing how to respond to the latest EU Framework 7 call for digital archiving research. In particular we are looking forward to identifying industrial partners in the commercial world who want to explore archiving and to see how they can benefit from this EU investment.
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.
Positively RIM
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Last night, an esteemed colleague in data security used the phrase "persistent storage". This struck me as a useful description for retention that has otherwise been described as "permanent". The word "persistent" connotes an ongoing nature without definite termination. It seems more appropriate since nothing is truly permanent. The earliest writings we have are 5,000 year old cuneiforms.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distribution and printing presses: all very expensive, so once you employ enough capital to gain them, it's damn hard to get knocked out.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 14, 2010
These words from one of the main founders of modern political science Niccolò Machiavelli’s 1513 book ‘The Prince‘ show how timelessly resistant human nature is around change: “…and one should bear in mind that there is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous to administer than to introduce a new [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
Remember when I wrote about the new " Search Stories " ads for Google's core search offerings? In that post, I noted "It's truly a brand campaign: Google is not selling anything here other than its own brand - that ephemeral sensibility that resides between its customers' ears." Well I've got a pretty reliable source who is telling me Google plans to hit the branded advertising big leagues this Sunday - the source says Google's "Parisian Love" ad (below) will air during the third quarter of the
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
At the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting today, and it's packed. Follow it on the Twitter hashtag #iabalm. Will keep this Signal focused on the links again. FM Honored with IAB Sales Excellence Award (FM Blog) Well I had to crow, didn't I? I'm so proud of the work we do. Networks Wary of Apple’s Push to Cut Show Prices (NYT) Apple is increasingly acting in a manner that I believe will isolate it from the Rest of the Media World.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
( image ) A couple of days ago I riffed for bit on the convergence of conversation in our industry around mobile, local, real time, and social. Sometimes this stuff needs an easier name to identify it all, so I'm going to go with MOLRS (MObile Local Realtime Social). Why another acronym? Because honestly, it reminds us to link all these concepts together.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 11, 2010
I'm a bit reticent to jump into this, as I'm not sure you all care that much, but I've got a decent reason for writing about Buzz ( yesterday's piece ) again today. First, I've seen a piece ( Calacanis ) proclaiming Buzz the second (third? fifth?) coming of social. Facebook will "lost half its value" due to Buzz's arrival, Jason opines. I think this is silly.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Was it really as simple as that? Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the blogwaves after the Super Bowl yesterday to explain Google's surprising decision to purchase an ad thusly: We didn't set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our products and our users, and how they interact.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Today finds me in Chicago, making the rounds of a great city that I don't get to often enough. Meeting with senior folks at agency holding companies like Omnicom and Publicis, as well as clients like McDonald's, I find this four-word mantra coming up, over and over: " Local Mobile Real Time Social ". Fascination with these buzzwords is not news to you all, as readers here, but to have a moment when major brands are all looking for solutions in the same space is rare.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Today finds me in Chicago, making the rounds of a great city that I don't get to often enough. Meeting with senior folks at agency holding companies like Omnicom and Publicis, as well as clients like McDonald's, I find this four-word mantra coming up, over and over: " Local Mobile Real Time Social ". Fascination with these buzzwords is not news to you all, as readers here, but to have a moment when major brands are all looking for solutions in the same space is rare.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
So Google went and did it - it integrated a whole mess of social and local features into Gmail, wrapping the whole thing into a product burrito it calls Buzz (Yahoo has got to be fuming , if it has any more fumes left, that is). The first-day response is somewhat positive - mainly due to the huge installed base that Gmail brings to the party. However, I am not so certain this is going to work.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
I'm spending the balance of today working on a longer piece, so here's some short links from yesterday, which I spent mainly on a plane without wifi (how odd is it to be bummed that my plane did not have wifi?). Congress Adds Location-Based Mobile to List of Privacy Concerns (ClickZ) We're not even close to the end of the conversation our culture needs to have about the impact that MOLRS (MObile Local Realtime Social) technologies will have on our social contract.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
( image ) A couple of days ago I riffed for bit on the convergence of conversation in our industry around mobile, local, real time, and social. Sometimes this stuff needs an easier name to identify it all, so I'm going to go with MOLRS (MObile Local Realtime Social). Why another acronym? Because honestly, it reminds us to link all these concepts together.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
I'm spending the balance of today working on a longer piece, so here's some short links from yesterday, which I spent mainly on a plane without wifi (how odd is it to be bummed that my plane did not have wifi?). Congress Adds Location-Based Mobile to List of Privacy Concerns (ClickZ) We're not even close to the end of the conversation our culture needs to have about the impact that MOLORS (MObile LOcal Realtime Social) technologies will have on our social contract.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Whoa cowboy, yet another massive industry Google will try to reinvent? Apparently. From a blog post announcing the initiative: We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
That's the rumor (BI via WSJ). The idea is to let Gmail become your portal into status update. It won't work, period, unless it connects to Facebook and Twitter. And so far, as I've pointed out before, Google won't do that , at least, not yet, and and certainly not in the way it should be done. Google is simply not understood by consumers to be a place where they can connect with friends and colleagues.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
The folks at Aardvark have posted an ambitious paper over on the 'vark blog. Titled after Brin and Page's original “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” , the paper presents the Aardvark engine and, in its authors' words: "describes the fundamental differences between the traditional “Library” paradigm of web search — in which answers are found in existing online content — and the new “Village” paradigm of social search — in which answers arise in conversation with the people
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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.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
‘Awesome’ Who Dat Dog You’re 13 hours and 12 cups of coffee into your workday, you don’t know how many browser windows or tabs you’ve got open. You have various instant messaging and voip applications running …and something somewhere is buzzing or binging. How familiar is this scenario to you? You’re trying to keep the details of [.
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
A brief conversation with my colleague Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group about our forty five minute keynote on February 2nd’s Virtual Enterprise 2.0 Conference on driving business performance. Feel free to contact us with questions, thoughts and feedback before and during the session if you’re able to participate!
Collaboration 2.0
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
This is a guest post by Bernard Lunn of SaaS Insights Report who has produced a fascinating report analyzing public & private SaaS Ventures to reveal the metrics & trends that drive their performance and valuation. Aimed primarily at Traders, VC/Angel and Management looking for market intelligence, this post provides fascinating insight, particularly in light of [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
In past writings I've intoned that Google was following the path of Microsoft in many ways, and suggested that at some point it may face the same kind of scrutiny - and potential enervation - as Gates&Co did back in the late 1990s with the DOJ. Now comes news from the WSJ that the European Union has decided to open an investigation into the company, though the allegations seem less serious than those which ultimately forced Microsoft to permanently alter its practices.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Just got word of this deal , news of it around the blogosphere: Yahoo is announcing a partnership with Twitter on Wednesday that will bring the services of both companies closer together. Under the partnership, Yahoo users will be able to read their personal Twitter feeds on several Yahoo sites, including the company’s home page, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Sports.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Over the past few days I've been at the IAB conference, and if the mood in the hallways (and bars) is any indication, the online media industry is in a much better place - better than anytime in the past two years, most certainly. The IAB is an industry association which represents, broadly, "companies that sell advertising." The Board (on which I serve) includes senior leaders from firms as diverse as traditional publishers (NYT, IDG, NBC) to ad networks (24/7) to portal/platforms (Google, MSFT
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Over the past few days I've been at the IAB conference, and if the mood in the hallways (and bars) is any indication, the online media industry is in a much better place - better than anytime in the past two years, most certainly. The IAB is an industry association which represents, broadly, "companies that sell advertising." The Board (on which I serve) includes senior leaders from firms as diverse as traditional publishers (NYT, IDG, NBC) to ad networks (24/7) to portal/platforms (Google, MSFT
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