John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 26, 2015

'The post Metromile: A FitBit for Your Car appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The Metromile staff in front of their SF HQ (Preston is in the red shirt in the back right). Ever since writing Living Systems and The Information First Company last Fall, I’ve been citing Earnest , the financial services startup, as a poster child for what I mean by an “information-first” company.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2015

'Finally some innovation and progress in network security after years of siege mentality - map IT topography, label and write security policy for the modern digital world.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 26, 2015

Not long ago, an IBM colleague of mine who is a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS specialist sent to me and to a few other IBMers (including some of our CICS and DB2 for z/OS developers) some information about an application scenario, and asked for our ideas and feedback. The scenario involved a Java program that accessed a local DB2 for z/OS subsystem (i.e., a subsystem in the same z/OS LPAR as the WAS instance) and selected a row to be updated, and then invoked a COBOL program (also

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CGI

JANUARY 29, 2015

Maturity models, love them or hate them? narmada.devarajan. Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:02. Maturity models, love them or hate them; they can help us set improvement objectives against a model of good practice, while possibly distracting us from the meaningful and actionable. Maturity Modal. Which model to use? How much is relevant? I won’t be giving a view on that.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 29, 2015

On January 28, 2015, in connection with Data Protection Day, newly appointed European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) Giovanni Buttarelli spoke about future challenges for data protection. Buttareli encouraged the EU “to lead by example as a beacon of respect for digital rights,” and “to be at the forefront in shaping a global, digital standard for privacy and data protection which centers on the rights of the individual.

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Barclay T Blair

JANUARY 27, 2015

Transcript. An edited and condensed transcript of this speech is available here. . Tagged: AHIMA , big data , E-Discovery , InfoGovCon , Information Governance , Keynote , Presentation.

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CGI

JANUARY 30, 2015

Determining best-fit workload environment key to effective cloud brokerage. kathy.jacquay@…. Fri, 01/30/2015 - 07:01. In today’s immature cloud brokerage marketplace, there is a big misconception that cloud brokerage is primarily about finding the least expensive virtual machine when it really should be about figuring out the best-fit environment for your workload.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2015

On January 27, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced the release of a report on the Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World (the “Report”). The Report describes the current state of the Internet of Things, analyzes the benefits and risks of its development, applies privacy principles to the Internet of Things and discusses whether legislation is needed to address this burgeoning area.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2015

'The challenge for giant swathes of the tech industry is that bad smell from past plumbing failures -- and fear of the unknown.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2015

On January 28, 2015, the German conference of data protection commissioners hosted a European Data Protection Day event called Europe: Safer Harbor for Data Protection? – The Future Use of the Different Level of Data Protection between the EU and the US. At the conference, the speakers discussed the validity of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. Previously, in 2013, the German data protection commissioners stated that they would review whether to suspend data transfers made from Germany to the U

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 27, 2015

On February 11, 2015, the International Association of Privacy Professionals Australian New Zealand (“iappANZ”) will host a discussion on the risk-based approach to privacy in Sydney, Australia. Richard Thomas , Global Strategy Advisor for the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams (the “Centre”), will present the Centre’s contributions to this topic including the outcomes from the workshops held in Paris and Brussels.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2015

'Finally some innovation and progress in network security after years of siege mentality - map IT topography, label and write security policy for the modern digital world.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 29, 2015

On January 1, 2015, Finland’s Information Security Code ( 2014/ 917 , the “Code”) became effective. The Code introduces substantial revisions to Finland’s existing electronic communications legislation and consolidates several earlier laws into a single, unified text. Although many of these earlier laws remain unchanged, the Code includes extensive amendments in a number of areas.

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