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The World Is An Internet Startup Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

I considered myself one of them, of course, but I also kept a bit apart - it's one reason I live up in Marin, and not down in the Silicon Valley. But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. Why did I do that?

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers.

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The Gap Scenario

John Battelle's Searchblog

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. You came in for your own retail therapy, after all.

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We Have Yet to Clothe Ourselves In Data. We Will.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And of course, on the Internet, there’s a yard sale’s worth of preferences: I’ve got settings for Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Evernote, and of course Google – where I probably have a dozen different settings, given I have multiple identities there, and I use Google for mail, calendar, docs, YouTube, and the like.

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Call Center Modernization with AI

IBM Big Data Hub

It mines data, customizes interactions and is continuously learning. “ *Insert Name*, transferring you to one of our agents who can answer your question about coverage abroad.” . Of course, like Watson, leading businesses are constantly learning, analyzing, and striving to become better. Customer engagement also increased by 40%.

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#ModernDataMasters: Mike Evans, Chief Technology Officer

Reltio

Of course, our initial MDM project proposal was rejected outright! A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals. Experience does of course count for a lot. And I returned to being a Junior Project Manager.

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Call center modernization with AI

IBM Big Data Hub

It mines data, customizes interactions and is continuously learning. “ *Insert Name*, transferring you to one of our agents who can answer your question about coverage abroad.” . Of course, like Watson, leading businesses are constantly learning, analyzing, and striving to become better. And customer engagement increased by 40%.