John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The post Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Musical entertainment, motivational speakers entice enterprise conference attendees, but the gap between understanding and doing remains large.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The constant challenge for social software is to boil down the ongoing process of technology change happening around us into bite sized concepts that people can hang on to. Its the tyranny of reductionist thinking, because the moment we do that we often lose sight of what is actually happening. To that point, one of the most contentious issues that falls into this trap is the idea of activity streams versus email.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On September 12, 2012, Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) released a bill that would require companies to tell customers about monitoring software installed on their mobile devices and obtain customers’ express consent before engaging in monitoring. These requirements would apply to mobile phone makers, network providers and application developers. Markey unveiled the Mobile Device Privacy Act during a congressional hearing on the role of mobile and online applications (“apps”) in creating job opp

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 20 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back. Till now. I’m not saying I’m switching, but I sure am open to a better solution. Because the past year or so has been dominated by the kind of computing nightmares that used to be the defining experience of my Windows-PC-wielding fr

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Since the SharePoint 2013 preview became generally available, I’ve read many reviews highlighting the new social features that Microsoft have developed. In summary, SharePoint 2013 new social features include: Upgraded activity feeds and microblogging. Community sites that provide reputation and gamification features. When you look at the entire SharePoint 2013 package and the way they have been integrated, these are actually a significant step forward for SharePoint as an enterprise social plat

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The other day I talked specifically about the social features in the SharePoint 2013 preview. Lots of people have been blogging about SharePoint 2013, with many people sharing screenshots. However, what you may not realise that its actually quite easy to try the SharePoint 2013 preview for yourself by signing up to try the Office 365 Enterprise Preview.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Based on my report, Designing Mobile Apps: A Roadmap for Businesses , I'm running a webinar next Thursday morning that will cover: The business context for mobile apps. Understanding user requirements. Use case development framework. Enterprise mobile app roadmap options. For more information and to register, see the Eventbrite page.

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