John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 18, 2013

'The post Thoughts on Ford’s OpenXC: In The Future, Brands With Open Data Will Win appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I spent today at the first-ever Boing Boing Ingenuity , a two-day hackathon cum “vaudeville show” – truly Boing Boing brought to life. It made me so proud to see the essence of conversational marketing at work – a major brand adding deep value to a community, an independent publisher realizing its dream of celebrating its voice and community through a uniq

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 19, 2013

'Its no surprise that a story about Activity Based Working (ABW) appeared in Fairfax newspaper''s IT section - after all, ABW is underpinned by the right information technology. In this instance, the Australian federal Department of Human Services (DHS) will trial ABW with 110 staff in a Canberra office. A range of supporting technologies will be deployed that include a practical mix of wireless networking, follow-me printing and voice-over internet protocol (VoIP).

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 23, 2013

This week a new breach notification regulation takes effect across the EU. The Regulation on the measures applicable to the notification of personal data breaches under Directive 2002/58/EC (the “Regulation”) specifies the technical measures of how Internet service providers, telecommunications providers and other public electronic communications service (“ECS”) providers must notify of data breaches.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 22, 2013

'The post Is US Culture Veering Toward The Dark and Deadpan? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) According to Wikipedia , “deadpan” is a uniquely American neologism less than a century old. The term arose from the slang term “pan,” for face: “Keep a dead pan,” a gangster told an associate in 1934′s The Gay Bride.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 22, 2013

On August 1, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota denied a criminal defendant’s motion to suppress, holding that the defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in computer files he shared on a peer-to-peer network. In U.S. v. Hoffman , police used a software program to monitor multiple peer-to-peer networks for IP addresses that investigators had previously identified as possibly associated with child pornography.

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 19, 2013

'"The phrase ‘digital disruption’ is quite a misnomer because no technology truly disrupts unless it disrupts what we do and how we do it, not just what we do it with. This then begs the question: Is technology disrupting us or are we disrupting with technology?". Cross-posted from the DISRUPT.SYDNEY and Ripple Effect Group blogs.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 19, 2013

'The post else 8.19: Why We Should Replace the Turing Test appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) Among many other things (we usually add 20-30 items into our book’s Evernote account each week), this past week we read about developments in brain-computer interfaces, and how connecting smart devices introduces new vulnerabilities.

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