John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 13, 2012

Last Friday Businessweek ran a story on Diaspora , a social platform built from what might be called Facebook anti-matter. It’s a great read that chronicles the project’s extraordinary highs and lows, from Pebble-like Kickstarter success to the loss of a founder to suicide. Given the overwhelming hype around Facebook’s IPO this week, it’s worth remembering such a thing exists – and even though it’s in private beta, Diaspora is one of the largest open source pr

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Collaboration 2.0

MAY 18, 2012

Historically SAP are an enterprise structured data software company: as society evolves unstructured data is ever more important. How are SAP coping with the opportunities and red herrings our increasingly connected world surfaces for them to respond to?

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Robert's Db2

MAY 14, 2012

A lot of organizations have already migrated from DB2 for z/OS Version 8 to a more-current release of DB2 -- either DB2 9 or (in the case of skip-level migrations) DB2 10. For the most part, those migrations from DB2 V8 went quite smoothly; however, some companies making the move from DB2 V8 to DB2 9 or DB2 10 have encountered performance problems related to one thing: the need in DB2 9 and DB2 10 environments for more resources -- disk space, table spaces, buffer pool space -- associated with w

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ChiefTech

MAY 18, 2012

I’ve never been much of a futurist, which you might find odd since I spend a lot of time talking about new fangled ideas like ‘social business’ and ‘government 2.0’ From my perspective, none of this is futuristic – it is happening right here, right now if you look around. Reflecting on this week’s Intranets2012 conference and Dion Hinchcliffe’s visit to Australia , I thought it might be worthwhile identifying some of the ideas and trends that I see

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 17, 2012

Last December I posted on “ The Internet Big Five ,” noting their relative strengths and the market cap of each. Since that time, the Five have only gotten stronger, adding a cumulative $272 billion in market cap (much of that is Apple, but Amazon and Facebook – assuming the offering does as expected on Friday – have also increased quite a bit).

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JKevinParker

MAY 17, 2012

This is a quick post to document two important PowerShell cmdlets for exporting and importing individual SharePoint sites. These cmdlets are listed on this parent TechNet page for SharePoint Server 2010 , as well as this TechNet page for SharePoint Foundation 2010. However, on both of these pages, the descriptions are inaccurate. Today, I submitted feedback on both pages to suggest corrections as follows.

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ChiefTech

MAY 17, 2012

via technologyreview.com. There is definitely something happening, as mobile computing technology adoption is getting faster and faster: Smart phones are on track to halve that rate yet again, and tablets could move still faster, setting consecutive records for speed to market saturation in the United States. Permalink.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 13, 2012

The remarkable news today that, among other important board moves, Ross Levinsohn will take over as interim CEO at Yahoo may well mark the end of an era – should his tenure stick, perhaps we can stop talking about the web pioneer in past or conditional tenses. If you’d like to get to know him a bit better, here’s an interview I did with him at Web 2 last Fall.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 16, 2012

The new EU Data Protection Regulation redefines consent of individuals. No longer, will it be sufficient for consents to be […].

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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

MAY 15, 2012

Pardon the site-specific interruption, but as part of my ongoing quest to keep my content here on my own site, I’ve begun posting pictures of stuff here that I’d otherwise put on Instagram, Twitter or other services. Given that many of you read Searchblog for my trenchant commentary as opposed to my preferences in pinots, I promised you that I’d create new RSS feeds.

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ChiefTech

MAY 12, 2012

via bbc.co.uk. BBC research shows that 77% of the UK's online population is now actively participating in some way. We have been aware for some time that the 1-9-90 percent rule (or 1% rule ) of interaction is too simplistic and this research adds more insight in understanding this dynamic. The BBC's model of Participation Choice identifies four key forms: passive, easy reaction, easy initiation and intense participation.

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ChiefTech

MAY 15, 2012

via youtube.com. Dion Hinchcliffe is visting Australia this week to promote his new book, Social Business by Design , co-authored with Peter Kim. The Headshift Asia Pacific team have been busy lining up speaking events and media interviews all week, however Dion and I have found time to put together a short whitepaper on the state of social business in Australia.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 18, 2012

As the UK counts down to the 26 May “cookie deadline” there have been some important developments in other key […].

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 15, 2012

Penner-Ash Willamette Valley 2009 Pinot drank VERY well last week.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 18, 2012

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