John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
I’m going to add another Saturday morning sketch to this site, and offer a caveat to you all: I’ve not bounced this idea off many folks, and the seed of it comes from a source who is unreservedly biased about all this. But I thought this worth airing out, so here you have it. Given that Google+ results are dominating so many SERPs these days, Google is clearly leveraging its power in search to build up Google+.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 18, 2012
Investing in long lasting, good quality ergonomic work furniture costs about the same as a new computer, but isn’t as seductive as a new Apple laptop despite many great design attributes. (…I bought an expensive new office chair and am justifying it to myself!
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 20, 2012
On November 30, 2011, the French Court of Cassation upheld a decision that excluded the application of the French Data Protection Act ( Loi relative à l’informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés ) to an investigation conducted by the French Competition Authority ( Autorité de la Concurrence ) on the grounds that the search and seizure was authorized by an “freedoms and custody judge” ( juge des libertés et de la détention ).
Robert's Db2
JANUARY 19, 2012
Last week, a DBA asked me a few questions about LOBs (large objects) in a DB2 for z/OS context. Most of you probably know that a LOB is a DB2 data type. There are actually two LOB data types: BLOB (binary large object -- a string of bits) and CLOB (character large object -- a string of characters). One key difference between LOB and non-LOB data types is capacity with respect to the size of individual data values: a table column defined with the VARBINARY or VARCHAR attribute (these being the hi
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 16, 2012
( image ) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation… As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week’s Google+ integration, I’ve also be thinking about Facebook’s next moves. There’s been plenty of speculation in the past that Facebook might compete with Google directly – by creating a full web search engine.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
Just saw this hilarious Hitler video. If you know the genre and have been reading about Google+, then you know everything you need to know to enjoy this. (By the way, someone told me about this, so I searched for it on Google. And all I got was Google+ results, not the actual video, even though I searched for it by name. Therein lies the problem, Google).
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 19, 2012
Google didn’t have a great earnings call today – the company missed Wall St. estimates and the stock is getting hammered in after hours trading - it’s down 9 percent, which is serious whiplash for a major stock in one day. But while there’s probably much to say about the earnings call – in particular whether Google’s core CPC business is starting to erode (might that be due to Facebook, Wall St. wonders?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 20, 2012
If you read my Predictions for 2012, you’ll recall that #6 was “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark. We aren’t very far into the year, and signs of this coming true are all around. The “Occupy” movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning “the corporation as a person,” and some legislators are supporting that concept.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 16, 2012
Seen on Paul Kedrosky’s RSS feed. Ouch. Inevitable, given how AdSense works.
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 20, 2012
On December 12, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a decision that employees of Ceridian Corporation’s (“Ceridian’s”) customers did not have standing to sue Ceridian after the payroll processing firm suffered a data breach. In December 2009, a hacker may have gained access to personal and financial information of Ceridian’s customers, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account information.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 19, 2012
( image ) Earlier this week I ventured down to the Silicon Valley from my lair on the side of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin. Those of you who have visited Marin might understand why for me, after more than 25 years of working across the bridge in San Francisco and on planes around the world, I find it rather pleasant to just stay in my office and Think Big Thoughts whenever possible.
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