John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The post Facebook Is Now Making Its Own Weather appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) The past month or so has seen the rise and fall of an interesting Internet tempest – the kind of story that gets widely picked up, then quickly amplified into storms of anger, then eventually dies down as the folks who care enough to dig into the facts figure out that the truth is somewhere outside the lines of the original headline-grabbing story.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The changing face of what businesses need is challenging to incumbent suppliers.meanwhile a new generation of innovation is flowering around simplicity.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The Polish Data Protection Authority ( Generalny Inspektor Ochrony Danych Osbowych or “GIODO”) announced that it will host the 35th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on September 23-27, 2013, in Warsaw, Poland. The first two days will be dedicated to the closed session, with the open sessions and side events taking place September 25-27.

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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are (at least) two CSS issues with the People Search web parts in SharePoint 2010 OOTB (out-of-the-box). Luckily, these are fairly easy to fix. I have run across other bloggers who use way too much CSS for this. What I provide here is lean and should be bulletproof. The Issues. First, the search box font size is entirely too small: People Search Box.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

The majority of the provisions of Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act (the “CMA”) entered into force today, November 7. Let’s take a look […].

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

On October 26, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission finalized its settlement agreements with two businesses that allegedly exposed thousands of customers’ sensitive personal information by allowing peer-to-peer (“P2P”) file-sharing software to be installed on the companies’ computer systems. The approved settlements prohibit Georgia auto dealer Franklin’s Budget Car Sales, Inc.

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JKevinParker

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

I was recently helping a client enterprise with their SharePoint 2010 branding, which included some changes to their My Site master page. Working on a VM in our cloud development environment, I went to the My Sites application, but did not see the "Site Actions" link I was expecting. Where is the Site Actions menu? I had seen and used this before, but I evidently did not have the right permissions in this environment.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

On November 7, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had settled charges against payday lending and check cashing companies alleged to have improperly disposed of consumers’ personal information. In its complaint , the FTC maintained that PLS Financial Services, Inc., and The Payday Loan Store of Illinois violated the FTC’s Disposal Rule as well as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s Privacy Rule and Safeguards Rule by disposing of documents that contained consumers’ Social Security numb

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

On October 29, 2012, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) served private sector financial services company The Prudential Assurance Company Limited (“Prudential”) with a monetary penalty of £50,000 in connection with a serious violation of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”). The violation concerned a mix-up involving Prudential customer details.

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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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