John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 28, 2012
…from those of you in the marketing business out there. How many of you would love to promote your product on the home page of Google, in this fashion? It’s arguably the web’s most valuable ad placement, it’s not for sale, and no one knows how much traffic or conversion it drives save Google itself. Just one more sign that the Internet Big Five are girding for a massive fight to be the platform for your life.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 30, 2012
Faxed documents and telephone voice prompts are at the heart of the thorniest bureaucracies, despite plenty of better alternatives.
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 29, 2012
So what does an enterprise social network look like? At Headshift Asia Pacific we follow a user-centred design methodology, so my natural tendency is to shy away from feature lists. But in the interests of trying to describe what the software attributes of an enterprise social network could include, I’ve created this map: Cross-posted from the Headshift Asia Pacific blog.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 31, 2012
On August 30, 2012, Taiwan’s Executive Yuan announced that the Personal Data Protection Act will become effective on October 1, 2012. In connection with the announcement, the Executive Yuan also proposed several amendments to certain controversial provisions to be discussed by the Legislative Yuan in September. Reportedly, the amendments would include the following changes: adding “medical records” as a type of sensitive personal data, and inserting exceptions to restrictions on the use of sensi
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 29, 2012
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about data recently. It’s not just reading books like The Information or Mirror Worlds (or Super Sad True Love Story , a science fiction novel that is both compelling and scary), it’s my day to day work, both at FM (where we deal with literally 25 billion ad calls and associated data a month), and in reporting the book (I’ve been to MIT, Yale, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and many other places, and the one big theme everyone is ta
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 27, 2012
Cross-posted from the Headshift Asia Pacific blog.
Robert's Db2
AUGUST 28, 2012
When I say "bigger," I don't mean bigger in a "footprint" sense -- the new flagship system in IBM's mainframe server product line is very close, size-wise, to its predecessor, the z196, and has similar power draw and heat load characteristics. What I mean by "bigger"is that the zEnterprise EC12 provides the ability to get more work done, in less time, more efficiently than ever before.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 31, 2012
(image shutterstock ) Today I answered a question in email for a reporter who works for Wired UK. He asked smart questions, as I would expect from a Wired writer. (Some day I’ll tell you all my personal story of Wired UK – I lived over there for the better part of a year back in 1997, trying to make that magazine work. I mostly failed – but it’s up and running strong now.
JKevinParker
AUGUST 26, 2012
This is one of my favorite Dilbert cartoons about gathering requirements:
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 31, 2012
This week, Google announced they had moved Google+ for Apps into what they call "full preview mode". If you are an existing Google Apps customer you can ask your administrator to switch the preview on or simply sign up for a trial account to check out this new feature. This is an important move for Google, as it adds another features to compete against Microsoft's Office 365 (with a possible combination with Skype & Yammer) and others such as IBM Smart Cloud and Zoho.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 30, 2012
Way back in the spring of 2010, when Twitter was constantly under siege for “not having a business model,” I co-hosted “ Chirp ,” Twitter’s first (and I think only) developer conference. This was just two and half years ago, but it seems like a decade. But it was at that conference, in an interview with me, that then-COO (now CEO) Dick Costolo first laid out the vision for “the Interest Graph.” I wrote about this concept extensively ( here , here , here
ChiefTech
AUGUST 28, 2012
In almost every company I encounter, someone is dabbling with some kind of enterprise social network (often Yammer, as this is the most well known). In some instances these organisations have yet to progress beyond simply experimentation, but others are making great progress. Some early adopters are even in the process of consolidating their earlier experiments into a single enterprise social networking platform.
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