John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 12, 2012
( image ) I know you all know that Apple has cut a deal to integrate Facebook , because of the relentless coverage of Apple’s developer conference this week. However, I just saw this story from ATD: Apple’s Ping to End With a Thud in Next Release of iTunes And thought to myself – “Hey, didn’t I predict that a while back?
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 28, 2012
Enterprise customers continue to be frustrated by a lack of clarity or momentum in key areas around business productivity ‘front office’ strategy from Microsoft; partners are picking up the slack but some big questions are being asked this summer
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Robert's Db2
JUNE 25, 2012
Earlier this year, some of my colleagues and I who work with IBM information management software for the System z platform were invited to write essays addressing the question, "Why is IBM System z essential to business?" I decided to act on this invitation, and to get my creative juices flowing I imagined an impromptu conversation with a skeptical CEO on the business value of System z.
ChiefTech
JUNE 16, 2012
Probaby one of the few positive things to come out of the Enron scandle was that it gifted social scientists a data set of real corporate email that could be analysed for research purposes. A recent study [PDF] used this data to look at 'gossip'. Now hang on for a second before you jump to conclusions, lets define what we mean here. Anthropologists define gossip as: "the absence of a third party from the conversation [and it] is fundamental to healthy societies—from small groups to large,
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 28, 2012
On June 28, 2012, the UK Ministry of Justice outlined its negotiating position on the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”) in its published “ Summary of Responses – Call for Evidence on Proposed EU Data Protection Legislative Framework ” (the “Summary”). The Call for Evidence sought to gain perspective and solicit feedback on how the Proposed Regulation would impact organizations and individuals in the UK.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 22, 2012
Yay! It's a nameless hotel ballroom! But the people who fill it are what matter. I had one of those kind of days yesterday that reaffirm my belief in our industry, in its people, and in the work I do. It’s not easy to sit here and write, much less write a book, and I’ll admit lately my faith (and my productivity) has flagged – there’s so much work left to do, so little time in which to do it, and so many other things – Federated Media, conferences, board positio
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 15, 2012
The old guard are marrying off upstart competitors into their product portfolios. B is he battle for supremacy among Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle still relevant — and has it scarred long-term relationships with customers?
Robert's Db2
JUNE 5, 2012
Sometimes, an important DB2 for z/OS feature can be out there for years, and yet not be fully appreciated by lots of people in the DB2 user community. Table-controlled partitioning is such a feature. In this blog entry I want to generally set the record straight about table-controlled partitioning, and in particular I want to make sure that mainframe DB2 folks understand a key aspect of this physical database design option that for some reason eludes many users to this day.
ChiefTech
JUNE 7, 2012
Designing a mobile application that lets mental health service users register their mood and activity daily proved a long and challenging road. Adil Abrar shares five important lessons. via guardian.co.uk. Five lessons from the experience of designing the "Buddy" app are: Find the right part of the health system to work with; Focus on creating a minimum viable product; Embrace 'agile' development fully to get the most out of bringing designers, developers and strategist to create the solution; E
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 28, 2012
As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : In recent years, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) and unions have placed a growing emphasis on extending the application of labor law into the social media arena. As part of this initiative, the NLRB has adopted a strong stance against social media policies that it believes pose a threat to employees’ right to engage in protected activities under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA&
JKevinParker
JUNE 2, 2012
I admit my Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint development skills are a little rusty. After all, I have spent the last year or so engaged solely in SharePoint and information architecture planning. But that doesn't take away from the fact that SharePoint and Visual Studio development can be more than a little kludgy. When attempting to deploy one of my new projects to my SharePoint server, I received this error message: Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool': Cannot conne
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 19, 2012
A couple of days ago Google released its latest “ Transparency Report ,” part of the company’s ongoing commitment to disclose requests by individuals, corporations, and governments to change what users see in search results and other Google properties such as YouTube. The press coverage of Google’s report was copious – far more than the prior two years, and for good reason.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 24, 2012
For ‘Generation Connected’, talk about what is possible and trends are dime a dozen, but everyone is looking for evidence of practical, experiential business successes
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
JUNE 21, 2012
Following our recent blog post, the Article 29 Working Party has adopted a document (WP195) on Binding Corporate Rules (“BCRs”) for processors […].
ChiefTech
JUNE 21, 2012
A few of the reports from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week included some interesting observations. From NetworkWorld : Past Enterprise 2.0 conferences have suffered from a lack of end-user case studies, but that didn't seem to be the case this year. Many presentations were akin to business management seminars rather than technology discussions, with the technical nuts and bolts of the software selection and implementation process kept in the background or not mentioned at all.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 27, 2012
On June 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a resolution agreement and $1.7 million settlement with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (“DHSS”) for violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. This is the first HIPAA enforcement action taken by HHS against a state agency. In connection with the announcement, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) Director Leon Rodriguez stated that OCR “expect[s] organizations to comply with their obligations under
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 10, 2012
This past week’s industry tempest centered around Microsoft’s decision to implement “Do Not Track” (known as “DNT”) as a default on Internet Explorer 10, a browser update timed to roll out with the company’s long-anticipated Windows 8 release. Microsoft’s decision caught much of the marketing and media industry by surprise – after all, Microsoft itself is a major player in the advertising business , and in that role has been a strong proponen
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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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 30, 2012
One of my pet peeves about our industry is how slowly we change – I understand it takes a long time to gather consensus (it took three years to get AdChoices rolled out, for example) – but man, why don’t the big players, like Google, innovate a bit more when it comes to display advertising? Well, yesterday Google did just that, announcing a “mute this ad” feature that it will roll out across its network over the next few months.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 8, 2012
ION Air add cloud native capabilities to their new ‘Point-of-view action-sport camcorder’ range, along with easy to use on/off recording
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 19, 2012
If you’ve been following this site for a while, you’ll remember my experiment earlier this year with posting pictures of wine, bike rides, and other “life” things. Many of you liked those posts, others, not so much. (Here’s one example.) My reason for posting these photos was pretty simple – I prefer to have my content emanate from my own site, rather than be bound to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram or some other third-party walled garden.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 27, 2012
I’ll admit it, I’m one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name. Back in the day, it meant a lot more than it does now – the search results used to pick up blog mentions as well as “regular” news mentions, and before FacebookLand took over our world (and eschewed Google’s), a news alert was a pretty reliable way to find out what folks might be saying about you or your writing on any given day.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 30, 2012
Recently my site has been hit with a ton of “manual spam” – folks who are paid to post short comments in the hope they’ll appear and drive pagerank back to various sites (or perhaps just increase their or their clients’ visibility.) It’s not hard to kill these comments, though it’s a bit of an irritant when they pile up.
ChiefTech
JUNE 19, 2012
via blog.yammer.com. A great post from Stephen Danelutti at Yammer explaining why even if you use viral adoption as a catalyst to get started, you still need a strategy: "The ease of use and virality of a platform like Yammer can be deceivingly simple and lead people to think that a deliberate strategy is not necessary. That’s a mistake, because without direction and an end goal in mind, the network will simply meander and fail to deliver business value.".
ChiefTech
JUNE 30, 2012
While studying Lean in general and Kanban in particular (and making the same bias as the KM evangelists, i.e establishing relationships that may not be relevant between two disciplines I’m passionate about) I’ve noticed this common trait with Social Software. By making the flow of work visible through actionable information , these simple tools lower the level of water and allow to surface deeply hidden organisation problems.
ChiefTech
JUNE 20, 2012
When evaluating [enterprise social software], it's best not to create "checkbox RFPs" that allow vendors check off all the features they provide, Byrne said. Rather, ask how they address those requirements, seeking to tease out details on the differences between platforms. Focusing too much on software features is a mistake, when you really should be trying to identify a match for the specific types of collaboration you want to facilitate.
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.
ChiefTech
JUNE 13, 2012
Mobile 2012 Manuela Davidson View more presentations from CeBIT Australia via slideshare.net. Presentation by Manuela Davidson about the ABC's journey into mobile. Davidson advises: "Forget mobile phone, think mobile computing". Permalink.
ChiefTech
JUNE 24, 2012
via headshift.com.au. Cross posted from the Headshift Asia Pacific blog, this is one in a series of diagrams I'm sharing from my forthcoming report on mobile apps for business. This diagram is an example of what I call a situational map, intended to help designers explore possible scenarios where mobile apps could be used. See the original post for further explanation.
ChiefTech
JUNE 30, 2012
via informationweek.com. The concepts, not the technologies, of social business pave the road to success. From Social Business By Design by Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim. Permalink.
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