John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I'm beta testing a new service called Memolane , which collects the breadcrumbs we drop around the web (from Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS, etc) and visualizes them as a timeline. It's not fair for me to review the service at this point - I'll save that for later. Rather, I'm interested in what it augurs: The rise of metaservices. The problem/opportunity addressed by metaservices has been worked to death by folks far smarter than I - in particular by well-intentioned developers look

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Box.net got forty eight million dollars bigger today thanks to a Series D funding round led by Meritech Capital Partners, with new investment firms Andreessen-Horowitz and Emergence Capital Partners joining previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners and US Ventures Partners to help with Boxâs growth as an enterprise cloud platform.

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Daradiction

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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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Robert's Db2

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

So, in part 1 of this two-part entry, which I posted a couple of weeks ago, I referred to a question someone had sent to the DB2-L discussion forum. The person asking the question wanted to know if the roles and trusted contexts functionality introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS could be used to provide DBAs in certain geographies with the privileges needed to get their work done, but in a way that would deny them access to data in user (versus system) tables.

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Elie

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Today, I would like to share with you some insights that I discovered about password “shapes.” More specifically, I will discuss some of the interesting metrics I computed from the RockYou database, which is, as far as I know, the largest password database ever leaked, with 32 million passwords!

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When I read Google announcements like this one, An update to Google Social Search , I find myself wondering why Google doesn't just come out and say something like this: "We know social search is important, and we're working on it. However, we don't think the solution lies in working only with Facebook, because, to be honest, we think social media is bigger than one company, one platform, or one "social graph.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

The escalating unrest in North Africa and other parts of the world continues to make us wonder about the fundamental levers of control of the entire internet, and its uses for mass interactions and broadcasts. Bit.ly, the uniform resource locator (web site url address) shortener widely used by marketers and Twitter users relies on.ly, the [.

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Scary Beasts Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The story of Chromium security bug 48733 , with guest Cris Neckar, part I It has been a long time now, but the story of Chromium security bug 48733 deserves to be told. It involves intrigue in glibc and even gcc; and notably I accidentally executed arbitrary code whilst playing with this bug! The bug was reported in July 2010, and there were instantly some WTF aspects.

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Robert's Db2

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Although roles and trusted contexts have been on the mainframe DB2 scene for over three years (they were introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS), there is still some misunderstanding in the DB2 community regarding what these features are and how they can be used. That point was underscored by a question posted a few weeks ago to the DB2-L forum. The person asking the question had a need to provide DBAs in certain geographies with the privileges needed to get their work done, but in a way that would deny

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Before we go out, my wife will often ask "how are people dressing tonight?" I'm never quite sure how to answer - at least for her. In essence, she's asking me to read the room we'll be in, and then translate the social nuance of that room to her choice of clothing. While I certainly pay attention to what I wear, I've come to the point in my life where choosing clothes for a social night out isn't that big a deal anymore.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

As I read this NYT story on JC Penney's black hat link farms , I felt like I was in a way back machine - I mean, five solid pages of copy about. old school low-rent link-spam sites? Really? I dunno, if this is news, the news is getting stale. The never-ending battle between Google and link-buying outfits is as old as search itself. The story told in the Times' piece sheds absolutely no new light on the tale, despite leading with lines like "the digital age’s most mundane act, the Google search,

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The 1999 US Gap 30 second TV spot above - ‘everybody in vests!‘ - is now exquisitely unfashionable. Hi Tech is every bit as fashion driven as the clothing industry, but unlike the rag trade has an evangelical quality which can be quite amusing to those being propositioned within prospect businesses. Computer technology’s role in business [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I've interviewed will.i.am before, but this conversation at Signal LA earlier in the week was my favorite of the day. will.i.am is a remarkable thinker and as you can see from our conversation, he's much, much more than "just a musician.".

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

San Francisco & Silicon Valley are the epicenter of tech funding, with some VC’s saying they will only finance companies located in the area because of the dense, rich local ecosphere of continuous innovation. Like San Francisco’s meteorological micro climates, the various sectors seem to blow hot and cold with amazing frequency, but for now the [.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

IBM ‘Flying Cars’ Commercial 2000 Web 2.0 technologies have been through a short, strange trip since they came to the fore in the middle of the last decade. The old 1.0 web of dot com boom destination websites and email have now been largely supplanted by the highly interactive, opinionated and tracked world enabled by 2.0 [.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Ex Microsoftie Nokia CEO Stephen Elop of Nokia announced he was ‘diving forward’ off the burning platform he alerted his fellow Nokia employees about earlier this week. This dive, as expected, was a jump to a primary partnership with the Microsoft phone ecosystem, but the whole episode brings up a number of interesting issues around [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Today news comes ( from the NYT ) that Apple has shifted its approach to content sales, no longer allowing content owners to directly sell access to their own content via apps on iTunes. This is ridiculous, and if it proves out, spells the end of the media's love affair with Apple and its platform. Mark my words. Apple's crossed a line here, and in a short time, it will retreat back.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I'm one of the four hosts of this year's IAB conference, and kicking off the event is a keynote from Google's Eric Schmidt. I'll be updating this post as he speaks, so stay tuned. Eric is wearing a vneck sweater and looks quite dapper. Executive Chairmanship agrees with him (not that I know anything about that.). Eric starts by hitting "Morning Joe" who said that computers are "cold companions.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Google's timing isn't coincidental: A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content (Google Blog). Google announces "Google One Pass" - "a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content.". Google doesn't have the iPad/Phone monoculture, but it's got reach, it's got Android, and it's got a better deal for media companies.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Yesterday Google unveiled " Google Weddings ," a site that ostensibly competes with what insiders in the media business understand to be a particularly lucrative niche: Bridal publications. Magazines and websites such as Brides.com are cash cows for the likes of Conde Nast, Hearst, and others, and usually top the lists of publications with the most ad pages on an annual basis.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I missed rounding up last week's Signal, forgive me. This week is a pretty good one though, ending as it did with something of a philosophical rant around "what is government in the age of the Internet." Enjoy. Friday Signal: What Do We Do With The Internet? Thursday Signal: What, You Don’t Like Me? Weds. Signal: Apple Takes Its Bite. Tuesday Signal: The Kings of Liminal.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Tuesday marks the launch of FM's Signal conference series , where we focus on one topic, one day, in one city. For our first event, in Los Angeles , we've always had a great lineup, but recent events have certainly made it even more timely. The event has been sold out since last week, but given the weekend's news, I've convinced our events director to allow people to register at the door.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I've noticed that the number of folks who are networking with me via LinkeIn has really increased lately. Anyone else noticed this? Might it be related to the publicity around LinkedIn's recent IPO filing? The company today announced " Skills " - a way to find people with certain skillsets. It's been on a tear recently in terms of new features - Swarms , a visualization of search terms, InMaps , a visualization of your network, OpenGroups, a new groups feature, and Signal , more sophisticated se

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I've been watching the overwhelmingly positive "reviews" of the new Verizon iPhone bounce around the blogosphere today, and I have to say, it's hard to not get caught up on the excitement: Hey! I can actually MAKE A PHONE CALL ! Well, perhaps we've all forgotten, but until the iPhone hit AT&T's network and slammed it to the ground, phone calls were pretty much the same on either network.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Twitter hashtag is # SignalLA , here's the livestream: Live Video streaming by Ustream.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A draft document, entitled Information Security Technology – Guidelines for Personal Information Protection , has been issued in China for comment. While comments are being solicited at this time, if issued in its proposed form, this document has the potential to add significantly to the rules governing the handling of personal information in China.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The Government of India’s Ministry of Communications & Information Technology has published three draft rules that would implement the Information Technology Act, 2000. These include: Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information ; Due Diligence Observed by Intermediaries Guidelines and Guidelines for Cyber Cafe.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

On February 18, 2011, the European Network and Information Security Agency (“ENISA”), an advisory body created to enhance information security in the EU, announced the issuance of its report on cookies, entitled “ Bittersweet cookies. Some security and privacy considerations.”. The primary goal of the report is to address security and privacy concerns associated with the use of cookies.

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