John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 14, 2013

The post We Are (About to Be) As Gods. Can We Get Used To It? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last month I finished another of my “must read” books - Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves , by George Church and Ed Regis. While the authors don’t veer into the religious, a reader can’t help but ponder the unknown and the supernatural – because the book rather calmly takes a fair amount of what we take for granted as p

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2013

Is there too much reliance on software to lead businesses into the future? Strategic thinking should arguably come from within firms, not as purchased generic techniques & enabling tools.

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Elie

JANUARY 13, 2013

Almost one in five US Internet users report that one of their online accounts had been comprised at some point. That is the result of the study I conducted using Google Consumer Surveys. This a much higher percentage than I imagined and it emphasizes how pervasive account compromises are.

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 18, 2013

My summer holiday this year (remember, I'm in the Southern Hemisphere), where I find myself naturally spending less time online and thinking about what's happening in the technology space, was rudely interrupted by the controversy around Instagram's new terms of service. Earlier in December, Twitter had also followed up with its 'split' with Instagram by upgrading its own photo capabilities in its mobile app.

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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.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 17, 2013

The post Amazon is Amazin’ Me appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m a fan of Amazon, always have been, though my relationship with the brand has, ironically, never been particularly personal. I don’t feel emotional about Amazon, I feel – transactional. This despite the fact that I have probably spent more on the site than the combined college savings accounts for my three kids (Hi Kids!).

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CGI

JANUARY 15, 2013

How can we create a level playing field for diverse talent? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 01/15/2013 - 07:00. Organisations have dominant cultures – ways of working and relating that are most comfortable for the majority of the workforce. The individuals who most represent these dominant cultures can often excel if they have true talent and the ambition.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 13, 2013

The post Phones! Now With Multitasking! Why Mobile Is About To Have Its Web Revolution. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. While at CES last week, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with four extraordinary publishers – all FM authors. The topic was “2013 Trends” and I got to hear Anand Shimpi (of AnandTech ), Brad McCarthy (of The Next Web ), Elaine Fiolet (of UberGizmo ) and Leander Kahney (from the Cult of Mac ) expound on what they’d seen in Vega

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 16, 2013

The post Twitter’s Makin’ Media appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Sure, it’s a marketing ploy perfectly in line with one of Twitter’s most important advertising segments – entertainment. But Twitter’s Oscars Index is a well executed piece of media. It reminds me of the various executions FM used to do on top of Twitter, back in the day – ExecTweets with Microsoft, ATT’s Title Tweets and CupBuzz , etc.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 17, 2013

The post The Searchblog Social Front Page appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m a fan of Paul Berry & Co’s new curation platform RebelMouse (I’m also a small investor). Many content companies have adopted the service as their “social front page,” including TIME , TechCrunch , the USA Network and many more.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

In a January 13, 2013 blog post , the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection’s Business Center Blog highlighted the FTC’s recent groundbreaking settlement for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in the mobile app context. The settlement with Filiquarian Publishing, LLC, Choice Level, LLC, and Joshua Linsk (the owner of Filiquarian and Choice Level, collectively, the “Companies”), is the first FCRA enforcement action against a mobile app developer.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 13, 2013

The post A Month In With The Nexus 4: Google Strengths Emerge appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s been a month or so since I bailed on the iPhone and went all in on Google’s flagship Nexus 4. I’ve been keeping mental notes on the transition, and thought it might be useful to others if I sketched out a few observations here.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 15, 2013

The post Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. A sample Graph Search result for the query “friends photos before 1999.” By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere and into the mainstream press: Facebook is doing Search! Well, not so fast. Facebook is not doing search, at least not search Google-style.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2013

On January 16, 2013, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) released its opinion on the draft report issued by Jan Philipp Albrecht, the rapporteur to the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (the “Report”). The Report included detailed amendments to the European Commission’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”) submitted by various stakeholders which Rapporteur Albrecht consolidated and distilled into a single text.

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