2011

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“We need some angry nerds”

John Battelle's Searchblog

Jonathan Zittrain has an important op ed up on Harvard’s site , and I hope all of you will go read it. It sums up many of the points that I hit as I write here at Searchblog, and that will enliven my next book What We Hath Wrought. Key points: Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor.

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Sea of cubicles - today's enterprise

Collaboration 2.0

On the eve of the main Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference, it’s worth taking a look at the state of the enterprise. Despite being up to my eyeballs in collaboration strategy behind the firewall inside large companies this year I strive to stay objective and to avoid failing to see the wood for the trees. It’s all [.

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Looking for a roommate for my schweet pad Santa Monica

Daradiction

Hello! I moved within Santa Monica recently to a great place with a better layout for working at home and having people over. I’ve had a GREAT roommate for awhile, but he recently got engaged and they are getting married. It’s a 2BR / 2BA place, remodeled with hardwood floors and a great kitchen. Their share of the rent would be around $1100 but could be less/more on if they want the place furnished, office den, parking spot, etc.

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DB2 for z/OS Version 10: Moving Objects from One Buffer Pool to Another

Robert's Db2

Over the past 15 years or so, I have written magazine articles, and presented, and blogged on the topic of DB2 for z/OS buffer pools and their impact on application performance (two of my more recent blog entries in this category were posted in September and October of last year). Often, the message boils down to this: bigger buffer pool configuration = good.

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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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Certified Information Professional

JKevinParker

I am a Certified Information Professional. I just passed the proctored exam and received my CIP Examination Score Report. In a few weeks I should have access to the official logo and credentials. While for obvious reasons test takers cannot retain a copy of any questions answered incorrectly (or otherwise), this Score Report shows the percentage correct for each section.

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Business App Stores – the way forward?

CGI

Business App Stores – the way forward? p.butler@cgi.com. Mon, 12/19/2011 - 08:00. Consumerisation of IT is impacting our business and that of our clients. It feels like a seismic shift. Initiatives like 100% mobility and BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology change the way we experience technology. The development of Enterprise Application Stores (EAS) is a new challenge.

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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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Alert: vsftpd download backdoored

Scary Beasts Security

[With thanks to Mathias Kresin for being the first to notice] An incident, what fun! Earlier today, I was alerted that a vsftpd download from the master site (vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz) appeared to contain a backdoor: [link] The bad tarball is (sha256sum): 2a4bb16562e0d594c37b4dd3b426cb012aa8457151d4718a5abd226cef9be3a5 vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz And, of course, the GPG signature notices: $ gpg.

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Porn domain not that sexy: no rush to have.xxx

Elie

While their is a huge hype surrounding.xxx domains and companies rushing to buy them to protect their brand, it seems that registration data disagree with this. My analysis of the 50000 most popular websites in the world shows that only 24% of them actually registered their.xxx domain.

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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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Web 2 Map: The Data Layer - Visualizing the Big Players in the Internet Economy

John Battelle's Searchblog

As I wrote last month , I'm working with a team of folks to redesign the Web 2 Points of Control map along the lines of this year's theme: " The Data Frame." In the past few weeks I've been talking to scores of interesting people, including CEOs of data-driven start ups (TrialPay and Corda, for example), academics in the public dataspace, policy folks, and VCs.

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Looky Here, It's Me, In an Ad, On Facebook! Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows?!

John Battelle's Searchblog

In the past 12 hours, about ten friends (and counting) have sent me a copy of this ad on Facebook for a company called "AppSumo." I have nearly 5000 "friends" on Facebook, a problem I've written about in the past , but seeing this ad threw me. Apparently, this is *not* part of Facebook's social ads, where people can buy ads targeting friends of particular people on third party sites - after all, this appears on Facebook.com.

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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights

John Battelle's Searchblog

As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. I’ve got a working hypothesis that we are in the process of transitioning very important portions of our “public lives” to private corporations, and that this transfer is related to our adoption of digital technologies and platforms.

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Twitter and the Ultimate Algorithm: Signal Over Noise (With Major Business Model Implications)

John Battelle's Searchblog

Note: I wrote this post without contacting anyone at Twitter. I do know a lot of folks there, and as regular readers know, have a lot of respect for them and the company. But I wanted to write this as a "Thinking Out Loud" post, rather than a reported article. There's a big difference - in this piece, I am positing an idea. It's entirely possible my lack of reporting will make me look like an uninformed boob.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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No, In Fact, We Haven't Seen This Movie Before

John Battelle's Searchblog

Thanks to monster private financings from Groupon and Facebook, as well as the promise of major IPOs from Demand, LinkedIn, Zynga and others, the predictable "watch out, here we go again" buzz is rising up in the press. This article from Ad Age, subtitled "With Billion-Dollar Dot-com Valuations Back in a Big Way, It's Time for Alarm Bells to Start Ringing," is typical of the bunch.

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The World Is An Internet Startup Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

( image ) Last night I got to throw a party, and from time to time, that's a pretty fun thing to do. To help us think through the program and theme of the Web 2 Summit this Fall, we invited a small group of influential folks in the Bay area to a restaurant in San Francisco, fed them drinks and snacks, and invited their input. (Here are some pics if you want to see the crowd.).

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The World In One Generation: Population Trends

John Battelle's Searchblog

In the vein of documenting how the world most likely will look one generate hence, my researcher and I have been taking a look at a number of key global drivers. One, of course, is how we govern ourselves (you can see posts on that topic here and here ). Another is global population. Working with data from the US Census Bureau and International Data Base , we’ve also overlayed some information from Internet World Stats , though for now, the fit is imperfect.

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Only Connect: Facebook, From The Eyes of an Old Newbie

John Battelle's Searchblog

I recently joined Facebook. Have you heard of it? I know, I know, that sounds crazy, given that I’m “an Internet guy.” If you search for me on Google, say “ John Battelle Facebook ,” you see that I am already there , and that I have nearly 5000 “friends.” (The interplay between Google search and Facebook is worthy of an entire treatise, I’ll leave that for later).

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Plato On Facebook

John Battelle's Searchblog

One of my first "big books" out of college was James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science and it still resonates with me, though it's been so long I think I'm due for a re-read. In any case, the next book up in my ongoing self-education is Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. It's long. It's dense. It's good, so far. In fact, there's already a passage, a quote from Plato, that has struck me as germane to the ongoing threads I attempt to weave here on this site (even if all I'm

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Predictions 2011

John Battelle's Searchblog

In the eighth version of my annual predictions, I'll try to stay focused and clear, the better to score myself a year from now. And while I used the past two weeks of relatively fallow holiday time as a sort of marination period, the truth is I pretty much just sat down and banged these predictions out in one go, just as I have the past seven years.

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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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Whisperings of the Future Surround Us

John Battelle's Searchblog

Yesterday I met with Christopher Ahlberg , the PhD co-founder of Recorded Future , a company I noted in these pages back in mid-2010. Ahlberg is one of those rare birds you just know is making stuff that matters – a scientist, an entrepreneur, a tinkerer, and an enthusiast all wrapped into one. He ran me through Recorded Future’s technology and business model, and I found it impressive.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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We Need An Identity Re-Aggregator (That We Control)

John Battelle's Searchblog

The subject of "owning your own domain" has been covered to death in our industry, with excellent posts from Anil Dash , and others explaining the importance of having your own place on the web. I've also weighed in on the importance of " The Independent Web ," where creators have control, as opposed to the Dependent Web, where platforms ultimately control how your words, data, and expression are leveraged.

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Google's Social Network++

Collaboration 2.0

Google’s pivot from search to social technologies occurred last week and my early impressions of their new service Google+ are very positive, particularly around their efforts on allowing you to group your contacts. The giant global advertising company have many years experience analyzing your search and email history, and often display eerily accurate recommendations contextual [.

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What Everyone Seems to Miss In Facebook's Private or Public Debate.

John Battelle's Searchblog

is the core reason it makes sense for Facebook to be public: Accountability to its customers. The rest of this debate is simply financial folks arguing amongst themselves. Facebook is the greatest repository of data about people's intentions, relationships, and utterances that ever has been created. Period. And a company that owns that much private data should be accountable to the public.

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Watch This Space: The Next Generation of "Social Networks" Won't Look Like Facebook.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Lately in talks and private conversations, I've been thinking out loud about the role of Facebook in our lives. It's an extraordinary service (and company), and deserves its extraordinary valuation. But its approach to our "social graph" is limiting, as I and others have pointed out quite a bit. While in Mexico I had the chance to sit with a couple of entrepreneurs who have an idea I feel is deeply *right* about social networking, and it couldn't be further from how Facebook works today.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Internet Big Five

John Battelle's Searchblog

As I work on the book, I’ve come to use a shorthand for five companies that I’ve determined are critical drivers of what kind of society we’ll be living in one generation from now. At the moment I’m focused on just Internet companies, though I also plan on looking at other categories, such as energy, food, and health. My terminology has evolved in the past week from “the Five Horsemen” to simply “The Big Five.” I’ve got a few reasons for this

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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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What Role Government?

John Battelle's Searchblog

( image ) As I begin to dig into the work of my next book, I’ve found myself thinking about politics and government far more than I anticipated. (For initial thoughts and stats, see Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights ). While the body politic was always going to be one of the main pillars of the book , I didn’t expect it to push itself to the foreground so quickly.