John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 5, 2010
Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a one-off reference in an earlier post - but not much earlier, as the "DBoI" post, as I call it, was just the sixty-third post of my then-early blogging career.
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 19, 2010
The video above is a discussion organized by the IIT Madras Alumni Association at Google’s Silicon Valley epicenter around ‘Social Media Revolution in the Workplace’ on February 24th which I was privileged to speak at. My panelist colleagues were. Anshu Sharma - Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce Greg D’Alesandre - Product Manager [.
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Daradiction
MARCH 28, 2010
I’ve found i have more energy and creativity when the moon is bright. Sounds a little bit crazy I realize, but it makes sense when you think that 60%+ of our body is made of water. So, I’m starting to plan to let some of my creativity run loose around full moons. Things like recording with my band, playing music with my friends, live stand up comedy sets, midnight surf sessions at Leo Carrillo in Malibu…you get the picture.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 30, 2010
Justice Michael Kirby was invited by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the “OECD”) to open the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data. Justice Kirby led the group of experts who worked from 1978-1980 to develop the Guidelines, which have formed the basis of modern privacy and data protection law.
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
MARCH 24, 2010
In honor of today's ARMA Webinar on the first Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principle (GARP), I offer what may become the first of a series of related limericks: The principle, accountability Can bring a RIM program stability There's no need to carp, That according to GARP, It also brings profitability Feel free to counter with your own verse in the comment section.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 7, 2010
There are many, many signals in the Database of Intentions, as my readers have pointed out, but the one I feel compelled to add to the chart I created Friday is the Commerce signal. This signal emerged before search, really, and has remained a constant, though honestly it has yet to become a signal that others can truly leverage into an open ecosystem (unlike the signal of search, or status update, or the social graph).
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 19, 2010
The video above is a discussion organized by the IIT Madras Alumni Association at Google’s Silicon Valley epicenter around ‘Social Media Revolution in the Workplace’ on February.
Daradiction
MARCH 21, 2010
Amazing how video can tell stories in such a powerful way. The medium truly is the message. Click here to view the embedded video. Tags: Cultural Anthropology Culture Ethics and Social Justice Humanities (Music/art/dance/&film).
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 24, 2010
Provisions of the FTC’s revised rule that regulate advertisements for free credit reports become effective April 2, 2010. As required by the Credit CARD Act of 2009, the FTC promulgated the revised rule on February 22, 2010, to prevent the deceptive marketing of free credit reports by companies that required consumers to sign up for paid products and services such as credit monitoring in order to receive the reports.
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Scary Beasts Security
MARCH 18, 2010
Ok, so I was bored and I added very very basic HTTP support to vsftpd. vsftpd is now perhaps the only FTP server to have an option ftp_enable=NO. Basically none of the HTTP protocol is implemented, but it might suffice for someone who is super-paranoid and needs to serve some static files over the HTTP protocol. The selling point is the re-use of vsftpd's tried-and-tested listener, string handling and built-in sandboxing.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 5, 2010
Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a one-off reference in an earlier post - but not much earlier, as the "DBoI" post, as I call it, was just the sixty-third post of my then-early blogging career.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 7, 2010
There are many, many signals in the Database of Intentions, as my readers have pointed out, but the one I feel compelled to add to the chart I created Friday is the Commerce signal. This signal emerged before search, really, and has remained a constant, though honestly it has yet to become a signal that others can truly leverage into an open ecosystem (unlike the signal of search, or status update, or the social graph).
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 10, 2010
I'm writing this at around 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco. That's not so unusual - anymore - Wifi had been on planes for over a year now, and I've grown accustomed to the service. Why? Well, because my family also has Wifi, and my kids can now gather around any one of our home computers, fire up iChat, and BAM!
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 24, 2010
Yesterday a crew ambled into my FM offices from ABC News, setting up quite an array of lights and equipment to shoot an interview. The topic was Google and China. Now, I'm a veteran of these situations, as is my staff, and fortunately the commotion was limited to my office, and the 45 minutes or so of set up happened while many of us were in a meeting.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 21, 2010
Each year at the Web 2 Summit , Tim and I try to focus our program on an overarching theme that we believe best sums up the year ahead. This is never easy to do - the event is still eight months away. But this year I feel better than I ever have about our focus, because it's a return to our roots, as it were. If you know my work, you know I'm fascinated by the interplay between the entrepreneurial culture of our industry and the giants who have emerged from within it - Google, Facebook, Microsof
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 31, 2010
I was going to post.That Twitter had been sold, for 1.75 billion, to Google (who would pay that, I'd reckon).That MySpace had been sold, for 250 million, to Viacom (who would pay that, just to rub it into Murdoch's face).That Google had announced it was only kidding about China, and was ready to play ball again with the PRC.That Facebook had made all public actions available in its API (oh wait, that's going to be true!).
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 23, 2010
Today Google Labs posted news that it was playing around with showing hotel prices on Google Maps. From the post: Google Maps is often one of the first stops travelers make to find and compare hotels. Today we started experimenting with a new feature, visible to a small portion of users, to help make that process even easier by showing specific prices for selected hotel listings.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 29, 2010
Dale and others have made some good points on what would make the iPad a better development environment, in particular, Dale recalls HyperCard , which was Apple's version of a weblike development environment, before the Web existed. I covered HyperCard for MacWeek back in the late 80s and early 90s, and I also covered the CDROM market (remember that?).
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 30, 2010
but it will build the equivalent of an app search engine. It's crazy not to. In fact, it has to. It already has app discovery via the iTunes store, but it's terrible, with no signal that gives reliable results based on accrued intent. What Apple needs is a search engine that "crawls" apps, app content, and app usage data, then surfaces recommendations as well as content.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 24, 2010
Google today introduced a " Search Funnels " feature for its AdWords clients, a feature that will help serious advertisers tune their AdWords campaigns for increased conversion and profitability. For a very good overview of the service, head to SEL. It's clear Google put a lot of thought into how this new feature would be exposed, both in terms of a searcher's privacy, and how an advertiser might use the new data.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 23, 2010
My latest Signal is up over at the FM blog. I had a fun day. From it: As readers know, I’ve declared the “check-in” as the latest field in the Database of Intentions. “Where I am” is a powerful signal, in particular if where you are is a local business that might answer that signal with an offer that engenders loyalty, purchase, or both. But I’m starting to think that we need to expand the concept of location to more than physical spaces.
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 22, 2010
From my rant over at the FM Blog : Now Microsoft is pushing to become a third major player. And to my mind, the company has a choice to make. No one – not even folks at Microsoft – will dispute the fact that Windows Phone 7 , due out in the Fall, is a reboot of sorts, and a clear attempt at creating the kind of platform that Android and iPhone already enjoy.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 15, 2010
I've posted Monday's Signal over at the FM blog. From it: What I find interesting is the media's response to the iPad (and I include tech blogs in the category of "media"). Overwhelmingly, the media wanted to believe that a hip magazine like Wired (caveat, I was a co-founder) would, natch, have the hippest iPad demo, a demo that, natch, would prove the viability of. the media's own threatened business model!
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 4, 2010
Today in Signal we take a walk down memory lane, of sorts, because sometimes such a journey helps us prepare for what lies in the path ahead. Early last week I ran into Susan Wojcicki , VP of Product Management for Google. Now, Susan is more than just another Google VP, she's also on Google's operating committee. Oh, and the person in whose garage Google was founded , not to mention Sergey's sister in law.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 31, 2010
Cross posted from the FM Blog : For today’s Signal topic, I’d like to talk about marketing as a portal to understanding your business. Now, before you roll your eyes and click away, stick with me for a minute. If you’re reading this post, chances are you are in business. And chances are also pretty good that business is media or marketing, because that’s the focus of Signal, after all.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 10, 2010
( cross posted from FM blog ). I’m very excited to announce the theme and line-up for our fifth CM Summit , to be held in New York June 7-8 (it's the kickoff conference to New York's annual Internet Week). We’ve got a lot to talk about this year - our theme is “Marketing in Real Time.”. 2009 was the year the web went real time. Twitter grew five fold and became a major online player, tens of millions of us learned how to live out loud in public.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 28, 2010
This weekend I finished a the first draft of a new series on publishing, not unlike the three part series I wrote more than three years ago on conversational media. I've posted the draft over on the FM blog , as it's been FM that has inspired my thinking on these topics. From the post: Ask most media professionals to define “publishing” and they’ll most likely resort to something akin to the standard dictionary entry: “The business of issuing printed matter.”.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 24, 2010
My daily Signal is up over at FM , in which I break down the Nestle dust up. From it: Musing on the recent Nestle Facebook “debacle” (which I do not believe is, or needs to be proclaimed a debacle), Joshua-Michéle concludes: If Nestle neither wishes to change or defend itself on the merits – then they shouldn’t be operating in social media. Well, yes and no.
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