John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 5, 2012
As I have written in previous predictions, I’ve been focusing on the Internet Big Five lately, and expect that to continue this year, as the group, collectively, are something of a “character” in my upcoming book (as is Twitter, the “free radical”). Other characters include “The Government” and “Corporations,” so expect predictions about those players in the next few days.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 5, 2012
A startlingly unhelpful TV commercial manages to both undermine Blackberry’s enterprise credibility while apparently encouraging personal activities on company time
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 4, 2012
The U.S. Department of Commerce has confirmed that the European Commission will host this year’s Safe Harbor Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2012. The venue marks a change from the tradition of previous sessions which have taken place in the host authority’s capital city (Washington, D.C. or Brussels). The Conference will follow the release of the European Commission’s draft revisions to the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46, which are expected on or around January 25, 2012.
Robert's Db2
JANUARY 4, 2012
Last month, a DBA at an organization with which I work sent me a query that was getting a puzzling result. The query executed successfully in their DB2 for z/OS environment, generating the correct and desired result set; however, it was also getting an SQL warning code on execution. The returned SQLSTATE, 01003, indicated that "null values were eliminated from the argument of an aggregate function.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2012
2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. I’ve spent the past few weeks jotting down thoughts for 2012, and hope to do the Year That Is About To Be justice in the following set of posts.
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 1, 2012
On December 23, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking public comments on the privacy and security implications raised by the use of facial recognition technology. The FTC recently held a public workshop entitled “Face Facts: A Forum on Facial Recognition Technology,” that discussed the current and future commercial applications of facial recognition technologies and the associated privacy and security concerns.
CGI
JANUARY 6, 2012
Personal Data Stores – Get ready for a step change. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Fri, 01/06/2012 - 08:00. What if Facebook, Google, Amazon etc all started paying you for the personal data you create whilst browsing their sites? Well, this may be a reality sooner than you think. With many organisations making millions from selling targeted advertising using user generated profiles and given that Forrester say that more than $2 billion is spent each year on ‘third party data about individuals’ is clear th
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2012
For my third prediction of the year, I’m going with one just a tad bit less obvious than “Facebook will go public.” There seems to be no doubt about that event occurring this year, though I’ve certainly heard intelligent folks argue that Facebook can and should figure out how to stay private. I’ve argued that Facebook ought to be a public company , if only to be held (somewhat) accountable given all the data it has on our lives.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2012
My predictions this year will be pretty focused on the Internet Big Five (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) but the first two focus on Twitter. Why? Because Twitter is poised to become a critical “free radical” whose presence affects the actions of all the Big Five players. And 2012 will be the year this becomes readily apparent.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2012
By some Mayan accounts, 2012 is not going to be a good year for any of us. But in this prediction, I’m going to focus on one company that will have a pretty crazy year: Google. Now, I’m not predicting the company will lose revenue or profits in its core business of search, but rather that Larry Page’s first full year as CEO will be challenging, due in part to decisions made (or not made) back in 2011, and in part to the inherent complications of the businesses where Google now
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2012
I’ve done this a few times in the past, and this year I’m feeling the need to review all I wrote in 2011, and highlight the best posts (at least, by my own measure). Even though my writing in the past year withered to an average of two or three posts a week, I still managed to get some meaningful ideas out there, and I intend to redouble my efforts in 2012.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 31, 2011
I’ve been quiet on Searchblog for most of the holidays, but I don’t expect that to continue in 2012. This will be the year of focusing on just two things: Federated Media, and The Book. Both will drive a lot of thinking, writing, and dialog on this site. I’ve been on vacation these past few days and it’s given me a fair amount of time to reflect on the past year, as well as on what’s to come for 2012.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 5, 2012
( image ) One of the things that pops out of the “Big Five” chart I just posted, at least if you stare at it a bit, are the places where each company needs to get strong, quickly. Apple is weak in social and one dimensional in ad solutions. Microsoft needs to improve its device products, build out its entertainment distribution muscle, and keep improving search share.
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