John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 22, 2012
Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross , Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). Talk naturally turned to the implications of Google’s controversial integration of Google+ into its search results – a move that must both terrify (OMG, Google is gunning for us!
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 18, 2012
Investing in long lasting, good quality ergonomic work furniture costs about the same as a new computer, but isn’t as seductive as a new Apple laptop despite many great design attributes. (…I bought an expensive new office chair and am justifying it to myself!
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Robert's Db2
JANUARY 19, 2012
Last week, a DBA asked me a few questions about LOBs (large objects) in a DB2 for z/OS context. Most of you probably know that a LOB is a DB2 data type. There are actually two LOB data types: BLOB (binary large object -- a string of bits) and CLOB (character large object -- a string of characters). One key difference between LOB and non-LOB data types is capacity with respect to the size of individual data values: a table column defined with the VARBINARY or VARCHAR attribute (these being the hi
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 24, 2012
On January 19, 2012, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced a lawsuit against Accretive Health, Inc., (“Accretive”) for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations, the Minnesota Health Records Act, Minnesota’s debt collection statutes and Minnesota’s consumer protection laws.
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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
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
I’m going to add another Saturday morning sketch to this site, and offer a caveat to you all: I’ve not bounced this idea off many folks, and the seed of it comes from a source who is unreservedly biased about all this. But I thought this worth airing out, so here you have it. Given that Google+ results are dominating so many SERPs these days, Google is clearly leveraging its power in search to build up Google+.
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
Robert's Db2
JANUARY 31, 2012
In my previous entry , I provided information pertaining to the amount of data that can be stored in a LOB column of a mainframe DB2 table (LOBs being DB2 data values that can exceed 32 KB in length). I made brief references in that entry to significant enhancements in LOB data management capabilities delivered via DB2 10 for z/OS. I'll describe those enhancements -- the most significant since LOB support was introduced with DB2 Version 6 -- in a multi-part entry, of which this is part 1.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 31, 2012
On January 25, 2012, the European Commission released a data protection law reform package , including its proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”). The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has reacted positively to the Proposed Regulation, in particular commending efforts to strengthen the rights of individuals, the recognition of important privacy concepts such as privacy by design and privacy impact assessments, and new accountability requirements to ens
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 10, 2012
Perusing my feeds today, I saw this post from Google’s blog: Search, plus Your World. In the post, Google extols the virtues of incorporating results such as “your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 11, 2012
( image ) In today’s business climate, it’s not normal for corporations to cooperate with each other when it comes to sharing core assets. In fact, it’s rather unusual. Even when businesses do share, it’s usually for some ulterior motive, a laying of groundwork for future chess moves which insure eventual domination over the competition.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 16, 2012
( image ) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation… As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week’s Google+ integration, I’ve also be thinking about Facebook’s next moves. There’s been plenty of speculation in the past that Facebook might compete with Google directly – by creating a full web search engine.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 30, 2012
One of only two photos to emerge from last night's Wilco concert, image Eric Henegen. Last night my wife and I did something quite rare – we went to a concert on a Sunday night, in San Francisco, with three other couples (Wilco, playing at The Warfield). If you don’t have kids and don’t live in the suburbs, you probably think we’re pretty lame, and I suppose compared to city dwellers, we most certainly are.
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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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 12, 2012
( image ) I’ve just been sent an official response from Google to the updated version of my story posted yesterday ( Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete? ). In that story, I reported about 2009 negotiations over incorporation of Facebook data into Google search. I quoted a source familiar with the negotiations on the Facebook side, who told me “Senior executives at Google insisted that for technical reasons all information would need to be public and available to all,” and “The only
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 24, 2012
( image ) This article - Early Facebook App Causes Is Being Reborn As A Polished Web Site For Good – caught my eye as I was nodding off last night (thanks so much for moving the web into my bedroom, Flipboard. No really.). Now, it didn’t catch my eye because of its subject – Causes – but because of what its subject was doing: refocusing its business back out on the Independent Web , from its original home in the zoological garden that is the Facebook platform.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
As in, who gets the best deal, why didn’t that deal go down, how do I get a deal, what should the deal terms be? This is of course in the air given the whole Google+ fracas, but it’s part of a larger framework I’m thinking through and hope to write about. On the issue of “deals,” however, a little sketching out loud seems worthwhile.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
Just saw this hilarious Hitler video. If you know the genre and have been reading about Google+, then you know everything you need to know to enjoy this. (By the way, someone told me about this, so I searched for it on Google. And all I got was Google+ results, not the actual video, even though I searched for it by name. Therein lies the problem, Google).
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 31, 2012
After pushing my way through a number of difficult but important reads, it was a pleasure to rip through Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation. I consider Steven a friend and colleague, and that will color my review of his most recent work (it came out in paperback last Fall). In short, I really liked the book.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 24, 2012
( image is a shot of my copy of the first Wired magazine, signed by our founding team ). I just read this NYT piece on the United States’ approach to unmanned warfare: Do Drones Undermine Democracy? From it: There is not a single new manned combat aircraft under research and development at any major Western aerospace company, and the Air Force is training more operators of unmanned aerial systems than fighter and bomber pilots combined.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 9, 2012
Amidst all the chaos, tragedy, and tumult that was 2011, I noticed one very clear theme: Most of us are struggling with the role corporations play in our society. The 14th Amendment (yes, the one that banished slavery) established corporations, in the US, as “persons” in the legal sense. In 2010, Citizens v. United sanctified corporations as equivalent to you and I in terms of political speech; in 2011, we began to see the impact of that decision on our political process here in the
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 25, 2012
About 14 months ago, I responded to myriad “RSS is Dead” stories by asking you, my RSS readers , if you were really reading. At that point, Google’s Feedburner service was telling me I had more than 200,000 subscribers, but it didn’t feel like the lights were on – I mean, that’s a lot of people, but my pageviews were low, and with RSS, it’s really hard to know if folks are reading you, because the engagement happens on the reader, not here on the site.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 19, 2012
Google didn’t have a great earnings call today – the company missed Wall St. estimates and the stock is getting hammered in after hours trading - it’s down 9 percent, which is serious whiplash for a major stock in one day. But while there’s probably much to say about the earnings call – in particular whether Google’s core CPC business is starting to erode (might that be due to Facebook, Wall St. wonders?
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.
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.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 10, 2012
The integration of Google+ into Google’s native search results has been at the top of Techmeme all day long. And right after I wrote my post on the subject (about four hours ago), Twitter’s general counsel picked up on it , resulting, I believe, in the most RT’s of a Searchblog post in the history of the site. Just now I received an official statement from Twitter on the subject.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 25, 2012
Seen in the wild (well, OK, on this very site): The “Recommend this on Google” hover box at the bottom is new, I’ve never seen it before (then again, my ads are usually from FM ). It’s what we in the biz call a “social overlay” or a “social ad” – and as far as I can tell, it’s only available to those advertisers who use Google AdSense.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 9, 2012
( image ) As promised, here are all my predictions in one place. I’ve written a brief overview of each as well. Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Twitter will become a force as a media company, not just a platform for others’ media. To do so, it will improve its #Discover feature and roll out something like Flipboard. Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago.
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