Sat.Dec 10, 2011 - Fri.Dec 16, 2011

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On This Whole “Web Is Dead” Meme

John Battelle's Searchblog

The Web is dead again, at least, according to a widely covered speech by Forrester Research’s George Colony. Speaking at Le Web last week, Colony claimed that the HTML web is a poorly architected half step in the next, obvious progression of platforms: a hybrid between what we’ve come to know as the Web and the crippled chicletized place I’ve been calling AppWorld.

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Jive Software: the end of the beginning.

Collaboration 2.0

Financial market sentiment around Jive’s growth prospects will now play an increasingly important role in the broader space they have come from.

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DB2 for z/OS: Driving Thread Reuse

Robert's Db2

I recently provided some assistance to an organization that was experiencing throughput issues in their CICS-DB2 online transaction environment. This company was migrating a large application from a non-IBM, non-relational DBMS to DB2 for z/OS, and the initial cut-over to DB2 placed a significant load on a mainframe system that didn't have a whole lot of spare cycles to begin with.

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Sotto Breaks Down Data Breach Response in Interview with BankInfoSecurity

Hunton Privacy

On November 30, 2011, Tracy Kitten, Managing Editor of BankInfoSecurity , interviewed Lisa J. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP. Discussing how data breaches can be game changers for organizations that suffer major incidents, Sotto emphasized that companies need to consider both the legal compliance issues involved with data breaches and potential reputational risks.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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TextPlus Adds Free Calling – Watch This Space

John Battelle's Searchblog

A couple of weeks ago I met with the CEO of TextPlus, and wrote up my experience here. I mentioned he has some news coming, and this is it: TextPlus, which is a popular free text messaging service, is launching free calling between TextPlus members today. Calling to regular lines is pretty cheap to boot (like 99 cents for 40 minutes). Why am I writing this up?

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New Opt-in Privacy Rule for Cookies

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has sent a clear message to UK website owners to “try harder” on compliance with the […].

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Article 29 Working Party Rejects Industry Self-Regulatory Code on Online Behavioral Advertising

Hunton Privacy

On December 8, 2011, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted an Opinion on the European Advertising Standards Alliance (“EASA”) and IAB Europe best practice recommendations for the online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) industry to comply with Article 5.3 of the revised e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC (the “cookie clause”). The cookie clause requires a user’s informed consent for the use of cookies and similar technologies that store and access information in the user’s terminal

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Neal Stephenson on Important Work

John Battelle's Searchblog

( image ) An interesting interview in the NYT I missed from last week, with noted author Neal Stephenson. In it, he riffs on something that’s been bugging me as I work on the book. Asked about “the future of computing,” he responds: “I’ll tell you what I’d like to see happen,” he said, and began discussing what the future was supposed to have looked like, back in his 1960s childhood.

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Google Does Its Tenth Annual Zeitgeist

John Battelle's Searchblog

Ten years ago, Google’s first Zeitgeist inspired my first book ( The Search ). Here are some highlights from the tenth annual edition. Props to Google for going deeper than most year end lists with its data. Now…open source the damn data, folks!!!

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Netflix Litigation Ordered to Mediation as House Passes VPPA Amendment

Hunton Privacy

On December 1, 2011, a consolidated litigation against Netflix was ordered to private mediation pursuant to an agreement between the parties. As we previously reported , the plaintiffs allege that Netflix’s practice of maintaining customer movie rental history and recommendations after their subscriptions are cancelled violates the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”).

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