John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 17, 2010
In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. He writes: " But it seems unlikely that it’s going to become a revolutionary company, along the lines of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.Groupon, by contrast, is a much more old-school business. It doesn’t have any obvious technological advantage.
Collaboration 2.0
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Whether you are job hunting or working, the challenges of personal control of your online personality at work, societally and socially have never been more complex. A hundred years ago we had virtually no data associated with us beyond possibly owning a passport, a few pieces of legal paperwork and maybe some national security files about us we [.
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Robert's Db2
DECEMBER 30, 2010
By now, you've probably seen and/or heard a good deal of information about DB2 10 for z/OS , which was announced and became generally available this past October. There is indeed a lot of big news associated with this latest release of IBM's mainframe relational database management system: reduced CPU costs, support for temporal data (tables with system and/or business time dimensions), a huge increase in the number of threads that can be concurrently active, a migration path to universal tables
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 20, 2010
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams has issued the following statement about the U.S. Department of Commerce’s “Green Paper” released on December 16 : The Centre for Information Policy Leadership congratulates the Department of Commerce on the release of its Green Paper, entitled “Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework,” and commends the Department for the extensive outreach and research it conducted to inform
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CGI
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Why Understanding Culture Is So Important in Collaborative Innovation. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Fri, 12/17/2010 - 07:00. Innovation is an over-used, misunderstood concept, despite being talked about by most companies in most markets. Today, it has often come to mean creativity or invention and is often strongly associated with technological developments or research.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2010
This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space.
Collaboration 2.0
DECEMBER 9, 2010
The Salesforce platform is starting to fill out into a stack that is a credible threat to other enterprise players well beyond their core sales roots. The Dreamforce event has been very accessible online - I spent a couple of hours at San Francisco’s Moscone Center earlier this week and have been keeping an eye [.
Robert's Db2
DECEMBER 2, 2010
A DB2 DBA friend of mine recently told me of a problem he'd encountered in reorganizing a single partition of a partition-by-growth (PBG) tablespace: the online REORG job failed with an out-of-space condition pertaining to the partition's shadow data set. The topic of partition-level REORGs of PBG tablespaces is one that I find interesting; thus, this post, in which I'll explain why my friend hit that out-of-space situation and how he resolved it.
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 20, 2010
On December 18, 2010 , President Obama signed into law the “Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010” (S.3987), which amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to the applicability of identity theft guidelines to creditors. The law limits the scope of the Federal Trade Commission’s Identity Theft Red Flags Rule (“Red Flags Rule”), which requires “creditors” and “financial institutions” that have “covered accounts” to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs to
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Preservica
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Some people may have seen that David Rosenthal from Stanford has posted on his blog ( [link] ) commenting on my previous post here. He makes a number of interesting points that I thought I should follow up on. Digital Preservation Architectures. First of all he states that his main argument is not that formats don't become obsolete but "basing the entire architecture of digital preservation systems on preparing for an event, format obsolescence, which is unlikely to happen to the vast majority o
CGI
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Effective Ideas Don’t Need To Be Complicated. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 12/02/2010 - 07:00. Just reading an article in the Economist sent to me by a colleague at Logica about the use of text messaging in developing countries to verify the authenticity of medicine given to patients, which is helping combat the counterfeiters drugs trade. Often the simplest of ideas are the most effective because people just focus on the problem they are trying to solve, rather than start from a technology perspec
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 2, 2010
I 'm usually the last guy to know, and the first to admit it, but is RSS really dead? I keep seeing posts claiming Twitter and Facebook have essentially replaced RSS as the way folks filter their news these days, but I for one am still addicted to my RSS client (it's Shrook , for anyone who still cares). Perhaps RSS isn't dead, but instead it's professionalizing.
Collaboration 2.0
DECEMBER 6, 2010
By 2014 internet traffic will triple in volume to 64 exabytes a month globally, according to Cisco’s (probably conservative) estimate, but your ability to filter the tsunamai of online information it is so easy for you to personally invoke is a much larger issue. My main email inbox is ground zero for the communications flowing in [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Yesterday's post on Google having an algorithmic "opinion" about which reviews were negative or positive sparked a thoughtful response from Matt Cutts, Google's point person on search quality, and for me raised a larger question about Google's past, present, and future. In his initial comment (which is *his* opinion, not Google's, I am sure), Cutts remarked: ".the "opinion" in that sentence refers to the fact our web search results are protected speech in the First Amendment sense.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Wow, I've never seen this before. Check out Google's post , responding to the New York Times story about a bad actor who had figured out a way to make a living leveraging what he saw as holes in Google's approach to ranking. How Google ranks is the subject of increasing scrutiny, including and particularly in Europe. From Google's blog: Even though our initial analysis pointed to this being an edge case and not a widespread problem in our search results, we immediately convened a team that looke
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 6, 2010
Here's one for you, folks: A few folks "in the know" told me that a company is thinking about doing something with another company, but that second company has no idea about it, and in order for the whole thing to play out, a whole lot of things need to happen first, most of which are totally dependent on other things happening over which the sources have no control!
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Related: Predictions 2010. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did 2006 Predictions 2006 How I Did 2005 Predictions 2005 How I Did 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. Well, it's that time of year again, time to see how well, or poorly, I did predicting events in the past year. This is my "keep myself honest" post, next week, I hope, I'll post my predictions for 2011.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 3, 2010
Yesterday I posted what was pretty much an offhand question - Is RSS Dead ? I had been working on the FM Signal , a roundup of the day's news I post over at the FM Blog. A big part of editing that daily roundup is spent staring into my RSS reader, which culls about 100 or so feeds for me. I realized I've been staring into an RSS reader for the better part of a decade now, and I recalled the various posts I'd recently seen (yes, via my RSS reader) about the death of RSS.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 8, 2010
When the Wikileaks story broke, I wrote a short piece chastising folks for blogging the assertion that one of the cables proves the Chinese government was behind the Google hacking which preceded Google's pulling out of the country. The cable is based on single sources, who are anonymous and second-hand, and that doesn't pass the journalistic sniff test.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 8, 2010
I'm pleased to formally announce Federated Media's upcoming Signal Series - three full-day conferences in three great cities. Born from FM's annual Conversational Marketing Summit and my daily Signal newsletter , the Signal conference series focuses on one key topic in one city at a time. These three events will culminate in our annual CM Summit in New York next June during Internet Week.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 22, 2010
This has become something of a tradition at Searchblog (well, OK, it's the second time in three years), in which I review the year in posts and note those of which I am particularly proud. For me it's a way to remember what I've been on about, and catalog some of my sketches for further work (perhaps as a book, ahem ). So in chronological order, here are the posts I liked from these past 12 months, with some commentary as well: January.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Almost immediately after the Web 2.0 Summit last month, Tim O'Reilly and I sat down at an FM event and debriefed each other on what we learned. Here's the video.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 23, 2010
I'm pleased to announce that the preliminary agenda for our first ever Signal conference, Signal LA, is live and online. Signal is FM's conference series highlighting one major trend in digital media and marketing, in one city, on one day. First up is Los Angeles, Feb 8th, with a focus on Content Marketing. Check out the amazing lineup : Register today , I expect this to sell out.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Remember back in the halcyon days of the web, when bloggers shared a sense of community with each other, linking back and forth to each other as a matter of social grace and conversation, as opposed to calculated consideration? Well, if not, that's how it was back in 2003 or so, when I started blogging. Now, that signal (who linked to you recently) is gone, and honestly, not just for blogging.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 7, 2010
It's been a while since I've updated you on my Signal newsletter, which I do each day. Here's the last week or so of them. If you want to read it in RSS, here's the feed: [link]. Tues. Signal: Does Your Media Have an Address? Monday Signal: Clearly, It’s Not About The Money. Friday Signal: Nazis From Space! Thurs. Signal: Go On, Opt Out. Just Don’t Come Cryin’ To Me ….
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Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 17, 2010
As previously reported , on December 16, 2010, the U.S. Department of Commerce released its Green Paper “aimed at promoting consumer privacy online while ensuring the Internet remains a platform that spurs innovation, job creation, and economic growth.”. During a press teleconference earlier that morning announcing the release of the Green Paper, Secretary Gary Locke commented on the Green Paper’s recommendation of adopting a baseline commercial data privacy framework, or a “privacy bill of righ
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 17, 2010
On November 25, 2010, the German data protection authorities responsible for the private sector (also known as the “Düsseldorfer Kreis”) issued a resolution on the minimum requirements for the qualifications and independence of company data protection officers (“DPOs”). This initiative follows inspections carried out within companies that revealed a generally insufficient level of expertise among DPOs given data processing complexities and the requirements set by the Federal Data Protection Act
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 17, 2010
On December 14, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in United States v. Warshak that a “subscriber enjoys a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of emails” stored, sent or received through a commercial internet service provider (“ISP”). According to the court, the government must have a search warrant before it can compel a commercial ISP to turn over the contents of a subscriber’s emails.
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