John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

As I work on the book, I’ve come to use a shorthand for five companies that I’ve determined are critical drivers of what kind of society we’ll be living in one generation from now. At the moment I’m focused on just Internet companies, though I also plan on looking at other categories, such as energy, food, and health. My terminology has evolved in the past week from “the Five Horsemen” to simply “The Big Five.” I’ve got a few reasons for this

Marketing 106

Marketing Cloud Retail IT 106

Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Legacy application complexity coupled with next generation connected business needs is hugely challenging for large enterprise software companies.

Cloud 80

Cloud 80

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 8, 2011

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to intervene to defend the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) against a consumer reporting agency accused of violating § 605 of the FCRA. On November 23, 2010, Shamara T. King filed suit against General Information Services, Inc.

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Compliance Government IT Privacy 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So this week a well known VC made the trek to my writing retreat in Marin, and we hung out in a room that until this year was a large storage closet behind my garage. I rethought the space, soundproofed it, added a hodge-podge of AV gear and musical instruments, and named the place the “ Ross Social Club ” - on Foursquare, anyway. I haven’t really told anyone that I gave the place a name, but it was sort of an experiment – would anyone ever check in there besides me?

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Communications IT 74

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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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Shortly before Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, gave her keynote address on binding corporate rules (“BCRs”) at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Paris, Hunton & Williams co-authored two articles on BCRs with the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”): Les “Binding Corporate Rules”: une solution globale pour les transferts internationaux, published in the August/September 2011 issue of the

Data Privacy 40

Data Privacy Privacy 40