John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 22, 2012

Yay! It's a nameless hotel ballroom! But the people who fill it are what matter. I had one of those kind of days yesterday that reaffirm my belief in our industry, in its people, and in the work I do. It’s not easy to sit here and write, much less write a book, and I’ll admit lately my faith (and my productivity) has flagged – there’s so much work left to do, so little time in which to do it, and so many other things – Federated Media, conferences, board positio

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ChiefTech

JUNE 16, 2012

Probaby one of the few positive things to come out of the Enron scandle was that it gifted social scientists a data set of real corporate email that could be analysed for research purposes. A recent study [PDF] used this data to look at 'gossip'. Now hang on for a second before you jump to conclusions, lets define what we mean here. Anthropologists define gossip as: "the absence of a third party from the conversation [and it] is fundamental to healthy societies—from small groups to large,

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2012

On June 6, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted WP 195 (the “Opinion”) setting out the requirements for Binding Corporate Rules (“BCRs”) for processors. Similar to WP 153 , the Opinion lists the requirements to be covered in the processor BCRs application form and the BCRs document itself. The Opinion likely will be welcomed by processors, in particular those that provide large-scale, multinational data processing services.

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Preservica

JUNE 19, 2012

Good to see that format obsolescence not just media obsolescence is covered here [link]. I think it is one of the most overlooked challenges. Managed Migration of information to more modern formats is a key defence to preserve information. Key issues for managed migration can be found at [link].

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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

JUNE 19, 2012

A couple of days ago Google released its latest “ Transparency Report ,” part of the company’s ongoing commitment to disclose requests by individuals, corporations, and governments to change what users see in search results and other Google properties such as YouTube. The press coverage of Google’s report was copious – far more than the prior two years, and for good reason.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 20, 2012

On May 30, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a public workshop addressing the need for new guidance on advertising and privacy disclosures online and in mobile environments. During the workshop, the FTC announced that it hopes to release an updated version of its online advertising disclosure guidance this fall that would incorporate input from businesses and consumer advocates.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 21, 2012

Following our recent blog post, the Article 29 Working Party has adopted a document (WP195) on Binding Corporate Rules (“BCRs”) for processors […].

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 19, 2012

If you’ve been following this site for a while, you’ll remember my experiment earlier this year with posting pictures of wine, bike rides, and other “life” things. Many of you liked those posts, others, not so much. (Here’s one example.) My reason for posting these photos was pretty simple – I prefer to have my content emanate from my own site, rather than be bound to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram or some other third-party walled garden.

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ChiefTech

JUNE 19, 2012

via blog.yammer.com. A great post from Stephen Danelutti at Yammer explaining why even if you use viral adoption as a catalyst to get started, you still need a strategy: "The ease of use and virality of a platform like Yammer can be deceivingly simple and lead people to think that a deliberate strategy is not necessary. That’s a mistake, because without direction and an end goal in mind, the network will simply meander and fail to deliver business value.".

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JUNE 20, 2012

When evaluating [enterprise social software], it's best not to create "checkbox RFPs" that allow vendors check off all the features they provide, Byrne said. Rather, ask how they address those requirements, seeking to tease out details on the differences between platforms. Focusing too much on software features is a mistake, when you really should be trying to identify a match for the specific types of collaboration you want to facilitate.

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JUNE 16, 2012

via zdnet.com. Following my recent post over on the Headshift Asia Pacific blog (reflecting on meetings in San Francisco with four social business vendor movers and shakers), I noticed Dion has mapped a bigger picture of the vendor acquisition landscape. This isn't a complete picture by any means, but provides you with a sense of the themes at work.

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ChiefTech

JUNE 18, 2012

Four critical success factors for enterprise mobile app design View more presentations from Headshift Asia Pacific via slideshare.net. You might recall I posted a related draft diagram before. This particular diagram is from the report I've just finished on designing mobile apps for the enterprise - for more information, see this post on the Headshift Asia Pacific site.

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JUNE 18, 2012

via nodexlgraphgallery.org. Nice to see Social Network Analysis (SNA) getting airtime at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week. The network map above is the result of a live SNA experiment by Lithium Technology scientist, Michael Wu, using NodeXL. If you are interested in applying network analysis like this I suggest you check my friends at Optimice , who have been working and specialising in this field for many years.

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JUNE 18, 2012

Of those surveyed, 31% reported using social networking sites during work hours. Facebook was the most used site at work (94 per cent), with only 14% acknowledging using social media solely for work-related activities, compared with 42% using it just for personal (non-work related) activities, a 3 to 1 ratio. Just under half (45%) used social media for both work and personal activities.

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ChiefTech

JUNE 18, 2012

via microsoft.com. Microsoft's big news this week was the launch of its new range of tablets. Wired live blogged the launch. Permalink.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 22, 2012

There have been further developments this week on the new ‘cookies rule’ with the Article 29 Working Party issuing its […].

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