John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this week I participated in Google's partner conference , entitled Zeitgeist after the company's annual summary of trending topics. Deep readers of this site know I have a particular affection for the original Zeitgeist, first published in 2001. When I stumbled across that link, I realized I had to write The Search. The conference reminds me of TED , full of presentations and interviews meant to inspire and challenge the audience's thinking.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Salesforce exhibit marketing & presentation genius on a par with Apple to roll out new products across the global internet; pragmatic challenges in planning and realizing your needs are sometimes underestimated during roll out after digesting the dream

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Daradiction

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Marshall McLuhan was a post modern day prophet. Read his prediction of the internet from 1962, “The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedil

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Over the past 15 years or so, I have written magazine articles, and presented, and blogged on the topic of DB2 for z/OS buffer pools and their impact on application performance (two of my more recent blog entries in this category were posted in September and October of last year). Often, the message boils down to this: bigger buffer pool configuration = good.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

On September 27, 2011, OnStar announced it was reversing proposed changes to its Terms and Conditions that would have allowed the company to continue to receive data from former subscribers’ vehicles unless they specifically opted out. OnStar’s current Privacy Statement indicates that the GM subsidiary collects information regarding its customers’ vehicle operation, location, approximate speed, collision data and safety belt usage in connection with OnStar’s in-vehicle GPS navigation and emerge

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

( image ) Recently I was in conversation with a senior executive at a major Internet company, discussing the role of the news cycle in our industry. We were both bemoaning the loss of consistent "second day" story telling - where a smart journalist steps back, does some reporting, asks a few intelligent questions of the right sources, and writes a longer form piece about what a particular piece of news really means.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Enterprise leadership is often out of touch with innovation, collaborative processes and the levers for success: ‘Car Guys vs Bean Counters - The battle for the soul of American Business’ by Bob Lutz encapsulates much of what is wrong

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Daradiction

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Marshall McLuhan was a post modern day prophet. Read his prediction of the internet from 1962, "The next medium, whatever it is it may be the extension of consciousness will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

That looks like a pretty simple question, doesn't it? I mean, if I were asking about maximum table space size, you'd be able to answer, really quickly, with "64 GB for a non-partitioned table space, 128 TB for a non-LOB partitioned table space," right? Asking about maximum size for an index doesn't make the question that much harder, does it? Or does it?

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

On September 28, 2011, a federal court in Illinois held that West Publishing Company (“West”) had not violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (“DPPA”) by reselling driver’s license information obtained from state DMVs. The court held that (1) the DPPA creates a federal private right of action permitting individuals like the plaintiffs to bring their class action suit, but (2) the lower court’s dismissal for failure to state a claim was proper.

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Blurring the lines between work and play. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Mon, 09/12/2011 - 08:00. Last weekend I watched my friend’s 2-year-old son swipe through her iPhone to find his favourite video clip. I realised then just how much the future of business applications will need to change in order to keep the future generation of iBabies engaged. Game dynamics have long been used to build loyalty in brands and to encourage behavioural trends.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

( image ) As I posted earlier , last week I had a chance to sit down with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. We had a pretty focused chat on Twitter's news of the week , but I also got a number of questions in about Twitter's next generation of ad products. As usual, Dick was frank where he could be, and demurred when I pushed too hard. (I'll be talking to him at length at Web 2 Summit next month.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Kevin Mitnicks’ exciting ‘Ghost in the Wires’ book is fundamentally a memoir of solo social engineering capers; is the modern ’social’ web vulnerable to the few controlling the many in the style of the East German STASI?

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Daradiction

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

It’s long (over 3 hours) but covers Bucky’s story and lots of insights.

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

DB2 for z/OS query CPU parallelism (hereinafter referred to simply as "query parallelism"), introduced with DB2 Version 4 i n the mid-1990s, enables DB2 to split a query into multiple tasks that can execute concurrently on a mainframe server. The primary benefit of query parallelism is improved performance from an elapsed time perspective (query parallelism tends to increase statement execution CPU time somewhat -- this because DB2 needs to evaluate a candidate statement to determine whether or

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, the European Privacy Officers Forum (“EPOF”) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a gala reception at the BELvue Museum in Brussels. EPOF is composed of EU-based data protection compliance officers and internal legal counsel from over 30 multinational companies and public-sector institutions who meet three times a year in Brussels to exchange ideas and to hear presentations by data protection authorities and other government representatives.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This is what users who are not logged in see on the home page of Google. Clearly, folks at Google would very much like you to sign up for Google+. There's a lot more to say on this subject, but I'm on the road. Just wanted to capture this for posterity. Google+ is a major play by the company to put digital mortar between all of its offerings, and create a new sense of what the brand *means* - far more than search.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

( image ) Recently I was in conversation with a senior executive at a major Internet company, discussing the role of the news cycle in our industry. We were both bemoaning the loss of consistent "second day" story telling - where a smart journalist steps back, does some reporting, asks a few intelligent questions of the right sources, and writes a longer form piece about what a particular piece of news really means.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

August is a month of vacation, of beaches, reading, and leisure.unless you happen to work with me creating the program for the eighth annual Web 2 Summit this October. Each year, my "summer vacation" turns into a "working vacation" as my team and I spend hours massaging more than 50 speakers into a tightly choreographed program running over what always turns out to be an extraordinary three days.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Thomas J. Watson , legendary chief of IBM during its early decades and the Bill Gates of his time, has oft been quoted - and derided - for stating, in 1943, that "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Whether he actually said this quote is in dispute, but it's been used in hundreds of articles and books as proof that even the richest men in the world (which is what Watson was for a spell) can get things utterly wrong.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It's been a while since I've said this, but I'll say it again: Google is a media company, and at some point, most media companies get pretty deep into the Making Original Content business. With the acquisition of Zagat * Google has clearly indicated it's going to play in a space it once left to the millions of partners who drove value in its search and advertising business.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Enterprises often appear to be like rocks - never changing. The pace of global change socially & technologically is increasingly catching out sedentary firms who fail to evolve, but what are their options?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Earlier this year I posted about an idea we've come up with to create a new "data layer" on top of last year's popular "Points of Control" map. We created this map to visualize the theme of the Web 2 Summit conference, which is coming up again in a few weeks. As you can see from the map, we've visualized eight key Internet players as cities, with each of the buildings representing storehouses of key data types.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

From time to time I have the honor of contributing to a content series underwritten by one of FM's marketing partners. It's been a while since I've done it, but I was pleased to be asked by HP to contribute to their Input Output site. I wrote on the impact of location - you know I've been on about this topic for nearly two years now. Here's my piece.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

T oday kicks off my annual postings on folks I'll be in interviewing for the Web 2 Summit. Every year I seek your input, every year you help me get smarter, and I thank you for that. The Web 2 Summit (to which all readers of this site are invited) kicks off Oct. 17th with Mark Pincus , a fellow I've known for over a decade, since his days at Freeloader, Support.com, and Tribe.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

I could not make Twitter's press event today, but I did get a chance to sit with CEO Dick Costolo (the Web 2 Summit dinner speaker this year) yesterday afternoon, and got a chance to do a deep dive on today's news. I'll write up more on that as soon as I can, but the recap: 100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out what’s happening in the world right now.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hunton & Williams announces that Rosemary Jay, formerly head of the privacy practice at Pinsent Masons and the former head of the legal team at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, will join the firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice in October. Ms. Jay will be based in the firm’s London office. As a senior lawyer, Ms. Jay will bring more than 20 years of data protection experience to Hunton & Williams, enhancing both the firm’s renowned privacy practice and its Centre for Info

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

On September 19, 2011, Privacy Piracy host Mari Frank interviewed Lisa J. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, on KUCI 88.9 FM radio in Irvine, California. In the interview, Ms. Sotto discussed critical current privacy and data security issues, including lessons learned from the recent data breaches, the regulatory framework in the U.S. and EU, and expected legislative changes in the privacy arena globally.

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