John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The post As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) There’s a hubbub in the press this week about Google employing a “ Double Irish – Dutch Sandwich ” tactic to funnel profits from Europe over to Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax. Reuters reports that the company saved around $2 billion in taxes by employing the structure, which, as far as I can tell, is perfectly legal.

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ChiefTech

DECEMBER 14, 2012

While you may already be familiar with some of the leading enterprise microblogging platforms (e.g. Yammer), none of these have a particular industry or process focus. Senubo on the other hand is "an online, mobile communications platform for heavy industry.". Senubo have created some storyboards to help illustrate a couple of industrial use cases: To see what Senubo looks like, watch this video from about the 1m 12s mark.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 13, 2012

On December 12, 2012, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP (the “Centre”) released an accountability self-assessment tool designed to help organizations evaluate their internal privacy programs and practices. The tool is the product of the Global Accountability Project for which the Centre serves as Secretariat. “In an accountability model, organizations implement and demonstrate adherence to a comprehensive data protection compliance program,” said Marty Abr

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Preservica

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This was a great session. The major theme was that the cloud is easy, it works and even when Amazon went down, it was not horrific. Through the course of developing and working with cloud-based solutions for the purpose of digital object preservation, we have learned some very practical lessons. There are many advantages to be gained from leveraging cloud services, but along with the benefits come additional considerations.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The post For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) Wow. That’s about the sum of my initial reaction to this story from ATD: Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS. The wow isn’t that Microsoft is trying to reduce the 30% cut Apple takes on every dollar that flows through the iOS ecosystem.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 10, 2012

On November 23, 2012, a German data protection working group on advertising and address trading published guidelines (in German) on the collection, processing and use of personal data for advertising purposes (the “Guidelines”). The working group was established by the committee of German data protection authorities (“DPAs”) and is chaired by the Bavarian DPA.

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ChiefTech

DECEMBER 14, 2012

While the cloud has simplified some aspects of managing IT, it has also increased complexity through the number of choices available. The needs (and budgets) of big enterprise, departments and teams within large companies, small-to-medium size business and freelancers are also all very different, which means there is room for lots of different solutions.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The post With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Guess what? This guy was big this year. Really! I think readers know that on balance, I’m a fan of Google. I recently switched to the Nexus 4 (more coming on that front as I settle into really using it). I believe the company has a stronger core philosophy than many of its rivals.

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CGI

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Campaign for Real Analytics. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Wed, 12/12/2012 - 07:00. The surge of interest in “big data” has swung our telescopes towards analytics … but we’ve yet to adjust the focus to see what really matters. I’m going to try something a little unprecedented in this article. I’d like to persuade you that we should divert our collective enthusiasm for “Big Data”, and focus instead on the enormous value of carefully considered analytics.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 10, 2012

On December 10, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission issued a new report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade , which follows up on the FTC’s February 2012 report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures are Dis app ointing. The FTC conducted a follow-up survey regarding pre-download mobile app privacy disclosures, and whether those disclosures accurately describe what occurs during use of the apps.

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