John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The post An Embarrassment of Pitches appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Man, sometimes you have to venture out onto the real web to realize how far much of the “professional sites” have to travel before they have a viable model. Case in point: The San Jose Mercury News. Today the paper (yeah, I’m calling it that) published an interesting-sounding piece entitled Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

'Rimini Street''s 3rd-Party Software Maintenance & Support model could be the catalyst that completely changes the face of future enterprise software.

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Interactive Information Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

How to evaluate your digital, interactive marketing partner, for local and regional businesses - particularly in the Washington DC and Northern Virginia marketing and advertising area. We'll put it out there – as you evaluate prospective partners like KME Internet Marketing to help with web marketing initiatives, gaining exposure for your business and driving new sales from the Internet, this is exactly what you should seek.

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ChiefTech

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

The theme for Microsoft Research's Social Computing Symposium 2013 was on: "populations and topics we forget to discuss, often hiding in plain sight.". They have published recordings of almost all the sessions. While, I haven't watched all the recordings, these two stand out for me so far: Who’s not on Social Media by Zeynep Tufekci. We spend a lot of time thinking about the people who are using social media, but its important to consider those who aren't and why.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

On February 7, 2013, the European Commission, together with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, launched their cybersecurity strategy for the European Union (“Strategy”). As part of this Strategy, the European Commission also proposed a draft directive on measures to ensure a common level of network and information security (“NIS”) across the EU (the “Directive”).

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CGI

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

CIOs must back technology innovation. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:00. It can be damaging to talk about business innovation in technology terms. Unless you’re a company like Apple, which designs or manufactures technology products, your colleagues outside the IT department are likely to question your motivation. They’ll rightly assert that innovation is only legitimate when it supports the business goals.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

We’re now well past the UK grace period for cookie compliance. But what are companies actually doing about this? Are […].

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

On February 4, 2013, the German Federal Office for Information Security ( Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik or “BSI”) published a paper (in German) providing an overview of the information technology risks inherent in consumerization and bring your own device (“BYOD”) strategies. The Paper responds to what the BSI views as a growing trend of employees making personal use of employer IT systems as well as using their personal IT devices for work purposes.

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Scary Beasts Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Back in November 2012, a Chrome Releases blog post mysteriously stated: "Congratulations to Pinkie Pie for completing challenge: 64-bit exploit". Chrome patches and autoupdates bugs pretty fast but this is a WebKit bug and not every consumer of WebKit patches bugs particularly quickly. So I've waited a few months to release a full breakdown of the exploit.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

On February 5, 2013, Singapore’s new data protection agency, the Personal Data Protection Commission , published its first consultation paper (the “Paper”) articulating proposals for a data protection regulation. The Paper outlines the Commission’s positions on three key issues: (1) requests for access and correction; (2) transfer of personal data outside of Singapore; and (3) individuals who may act for others under the Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”).

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

On January 29, 2013, the UK Court of Appeal ruled that the UK criminal records disclosure regime is disproportionate and incompatible with the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (the “Act”). The landmark judgment focused on the case of an appellant named “T,” who had received two “cautions” for stealing two bicycles when he was 11 years old. After a number of years, the appellant had to disclose these cautions twice in connection with required criminal records checks: first, at the age of 17, when he appl

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

On January 25, 2013, Kmart Corporation (“Kmart”) agreed to a $3 million settlement stemming from allegations that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) when using background checks to make employment decisions. The FCRA addresses adverse actions taken against consumers based on information in consumer reports and includes numerous requirements relating to the use of such reports in the employment context.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

On February 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of California examined whether Section 1747.08 of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (“Song-Beverly”) prohibits an online retailer from requesting or requiring personal identification information from a customer as a condition to accepting a credit card as payment for an electronically downloadable product. In a split decision, the majority of the court ruled that Song-Beverly does not apply to online purchases in which the product is downloaded electronicall

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