John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 6, 2012
( image ) Here’s a short overview of Google’s past few months: It’s angered policymakers and pundits with a sweeping change to its privacy settings. It’s taken a beating for favoring its own properties in its core search results. It’s been caught with its hands in Apple’s cookie jar , and despite the fact Facebook and others previously condoned the practice , it was savaged for doing so.
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 15, 2012
The largest software company in the world and the ‘no software’ cloud world are colliding, and in the perceptions battle Sharepoint are shining a lot brighter
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Robert's Db2
MARCH 30, 2012
If you are a DB2 for z/OS DBA or systems programmer, chances are that a good bit of what you do is focused on improving the CPU efficiency of your organization's DB2-accessing application workload. There are various ways in which people go about reducing DB2-related CPU consumption, including SQL statement tuning, physical database design changes (e.g., adding or modifying indexes), shifting work to zIIP engines (for example, by going with native SQL procedures versus external stored procedures
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 30, 2012
On March 23, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted an Opinion on the European Commission’s data protection law reform proposals , including the draft Regulation that is of particular importance for businesses. The Working Party’s Opinion serves as the national data protection authorities’ contribution to the legislative process before the European Parliament and the European Council.
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Preservica
MARCH 27, 2012
Good to see the BBC getting digital preservation on the cloud - see [link] at 15.07 onwards (UK only).
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 15, 2012
A highlight of TED this year was watching my pal Rob Reid do a short talk on the math of those who claim piracy is killing the content business. It’s short, it’s really funny, and it’s a prequel of sorts for Rob’s wonderful new comic novel, which comes out in May.
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 27, 2012
Achieving great collective performance has the same basic principles for musicians, sports teams and other groups of individuals.
Robert's Db2
MARCH 12, 2012
Sometimes an APAR (in IBM-ese, a description of a software functional enhancement or defect correction effected via application of a fix) is not what it -- at first -- seems. Take DB2 for z/OS APAR PM29226 , for example. The opening sentence of the brief (just one paragraph) APAR text reads as follows: "This APAR provides sample job DSNTEJ67 which initiates the process of converting source for an external SQL procedure into source for a native SQL procedure.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 28, 2012
On March 27, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement order with RockYou, Inc. (“RockYou”), a publisher and developer of applications used on popular social media sites. The FTC alleged that RockYou failed to protect the personal information of 32 million of its users, and violated multiple provisions of the FTC’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Rule when it collected information from approximately 179,000 children.
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Preservica
MARCH 21, 2012
You have finally got the sign off for a digital preservation management system. Now comes the hard part. How do you translate your requirements to suppliers? What is the best way to do this? Listen to Tessella’s Mark Evans presentation at PASIG on “Understanding Requirements and Implementation from a Vendor Perspective” to find out the answers. Follow Mark’s good requirement characteristics 7 point checklist and 8 step requirements capture process.
Scary Beasts Security
MARCH 17, 2012
I've had cause to be staring at memory maps recently across a variety of systems. No surprise then that some suboptimal or at least interesting ASLR quirks have come to light. 1) Partial failure of ASLR on 32-bit Fedora My Fedora is a couple of releases behind, so no idea if it's been fixed. It seems that the desire to pack all the shared libraries into virtual address 0x00nnnnnn has a catastrophic failure mode when there are too many libraries: something always ends up at 0x00110000.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 11, 2012
( image ) Facebook claims the data we create inside Facebook is ours – that we own it. In fact, I confirmed this last week in an interview with Facebook VP David Fischer on stage at FM’s Signal P&G conference in Cincinnati. In the conversation, I asked Fischer if we owned our own data. He said yes. Perhaps unfairly (I’m pretty sure Fischer is not in charge of data policy), I followed up my question with another: If we own our own data, can we therefore take it out of Fac
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 11, 2012
Who’s going to be the primary technology ‘parents’ and who will be the ‘children’ in order to solve the fragmentation and information filtering issues that are plaguing efficiency in many larger firms? More importantly, who is going to be responsible for this important task?
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
MARCH 13, 2012
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has made and registered its Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations for the Anti-Spam Act (CASL). […].
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 27, 2012
On March 26, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission issued a new privacy report entitled “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers.” The report charts a path forward for companies to act in the interest of protecting consumer privacy. In his introductory remarks, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz indicated his support for Do Not Track stating, “Simply put, your computer is your property; no one has the right to put anything on it that you d
Preservica
MARCH 15, 2012
Interesting view from Unesco about the economics of open source for a fully functioning OAIS digital preservation solution. Unesco is a big supporter of open source but it notes that when there is a need for a fully integrated standards based system for storage and management suitable for long term access an open source solution requires significant financial resource.
Scary Beasts Security
MARCH 28, 2012
For the brave, there now exists a pre-release version of vsftpd-3.0.0: [link] [link] The most significant change is an initial implementation of a secondary sandbox based on seccomp filter , as recently merged to Ubuntu 12.04. This secondary sandbox is pretty powerful, but I'll go into more details in a subsequent post. For now, suffice to say I'm interested in testing of this new build, e.g.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 13, 2012
Quick, what’s LinkedIn? If you’re like me, the first thing that comes to mind is “a professional social network.” Perhaps “a place to get a job, or find someone to fill a job.” Or maybe “the place my professional resume lives.” And certainly “a very successful Internet IPO.” But over the two years or so, LinkedIn has quietly built itself into a significant media business.
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 2, 2012
There’s plenty of great online and mobile technology available across a wide range of price points for small & medium businesses right up to global enterprises, but none of them will be of much use without successfully motivating your prospective participants to start interacting through these channels
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
MARCH 28, 2012
Are you one of those who have been monitoring the progress of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL)? If so, you may also […].
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 27, 2012
On March 21, 2012, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that Maloney Properties Inc. (“MPI”), a property management firm, executed an Assurance of Discontinuance and agreed to pay $15,000 in civil penalties following an October 2011 theft of an unencrypted company-issued laptop. The laptop contained personal information of more than 600 Massachusetts residents and was left in an employee’s car overnight.
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Preservica
MARCH 13, 2012
Download available on Enterprise Digital Preservation and Enterprise Content Management. Content Management and Archiving.
Scary Beasts Security
MARCH 22, 2012
This year's Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests were interesting for many reasons. If you look at the results closely, there are many interesting observations and conclusions to be made. $60k is more than enough to encourage disclosure of full exploits As evidenced by the Pwnium results , $60k is certainly enough to motivate researchers into disclosing full exploits, including sandbox escapes or bypasses.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 15, 2012
( image ) The Signal San Francisco conference is less than a week away, so I thought I’d take the time to explain my reasoning for the theme, and offer a curtain raiser of sorts on the day-long program. ( PS, I have ten, and only ten, half price tickets available. Hit this link , and use the code “luckyday.” ). The theme, a portion of which is the title of this post, is “The Yin and Yang of Audience, Platforms and the Independent Web.” I do get a few eyes a-rollin
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 7, 2012
Recognizing who has created ideas and concepts, and who has done the relatively unglamorous work of achieving success with detail work is instrumental to the success of enduring confidence in collaborative work
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
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Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 21, 2012
Cloud thinking is everywhere this spring with diminishing fear factor and business advantages being seriously considered.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 6, 2012
Last week I wrote a post about Neal Mohan , who will be joining us for this month’s Signal conference in San Francisco. Today I’m focusing on Adam Bain and his role as President, Global Revenue at Twitter. I’ve known Adam for some time, since his days at Fox Interactive Media, where he built Fox’s advertising platform (initially as a product out of MySpace).
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 31, 2012
( image ) Yesterday I finished reading Larry Lessig’s updated 1999 classic, Code v2. I’m five years late to the game, as the book was updated in 2006 by Lessig and a group of fans and readers (I tried to read the original in 1999, but I found myself unable to finish it. Something to do with my hair being on fire for four years running …).
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