May, 2010

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Your Social Life and Business Life: The Trust Issue

Collaboration 2.0

Most people outside the tech bubble go to work in order to make money in order to put a roof over their head and fund their personal social life - they work to live, not live to work…leave their cube on Friday, and flip their brain into social mode until Monday morning. These social lives [.

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Is The iPad A Disappointment? Depends When You Sold Your AOL Stock.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Today's news that the iPad sold 2 million units in its first two months - coming as it does right before Steve Jobs takes the stage at his only public conference appearance in years outside carefully scripted Apple launch events - led me to reflect on my prediction , in January of this year, that the "iPad would disappoint" (that'd be #5, scroll down).

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FTC Further Extends Enforcement Deadline for Red Flags Rule

Hunton Privacy

On May 28, 2010, the FTC announced that it would again delay enforcement of the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule. This is the fifth time the Commission has announced an extension of the enforcement deadline, after most recently extending the deadline to June 1, 2010. The Red Flags Rule requires “creditors” and “financial institutions” that have “covered accounts” to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs to help identify, detect and resp

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The Limericks of GARP -- Protection

Positively RIM

Because of GARP's call for Protection We gave CD-ROMs a rejection Their quick degradation Before regulations Expire, brought film's resurrection

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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3 Tips for Choosing a Network Document Scanner

Shoreline Records Management

Network Document Scanners are a popular choice for companies getting started with document scanning, and with good reason. They're reasonably priced, don't require a dedicated computer, and help companies quickly convert Paper to Digital Images. When looking for a scanner though, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all of the choices - are you sure you know what DPI is best for your application?

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Enterprise Hoarding Interventions

Collaboration 2.0

Most modern companies are choking to death on documents, and my consulting work can sometimes feel like a hoarding intervention TV show. Employees at all levels know they are trapped in a reactive work world that is burning them out, but are trapped by circumstance into collaborating and therefore perpetuating the document and postal paradigms [.

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Big Fish in Small Pond Clarity Syndrome

Collaboration 2.0

The recent New York Times Elisabeth Bumiller story ‘We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint‘ - which essentially said ‘PowerPoint doesn’t kill people, fuzzy thinking.

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Big Fish in Small Pond Clarity Syndrome

Collaboration 2.0

The recent New York Times Elisabeth Bumiller story ‘We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint‘ - which essentially said ‘PowerPoint doesn’t kill people, fuzzy thinking hiding behind bullet points does’ - features the internet infamous ‘Afghanistan Stability/COIN Dynamics‘ image: …Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort [.

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SAP Gets Mojo Back: Enterprise 3.0

Collaboration 2.0

Sapphire Now NotebookNew SAP Co CEO Hagemann Snabe, 100 days into his tenure, described the evolution of SAP as part of a broader ‘inflection point’ in his section of the global keynotes at Sapphire this week.The world is changing fast and SAP, the foundational IT underpinnings at scale of so many global businesses, is making [.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Google's New Mission? "To Organize the World's information (Unless It Starts With "i")."

John Battelle's Searchblog

I had a good call today with Dennis Woodside, who runs North American Sales for Google, and Susan Wojcicki, who runs products. Both are long timers at Google, Susan is pretty much a llfer - she joined in 1999. Both are joining me on stage at the CM Summit next month , a first for Google to have ad products and sales represented in one onstage interview.

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State of Enterprise 2.0: The White Paper

Collaboration 2.0

The official white paper for this June’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston is now available for free download here, and was written by myself and Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group.Formerly the ‘Collaborative Technologies Conference’, the mid-decade name change reflected the distinction between the old order and Web 2.0’s momentum.A major challenge for business leadership [.

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The iAd: Steve Jobs Regifts The Mobile Marketing Experience

John Battelle's Searchblog

( image ). We're used to buzz around Apple, and in particular, we're quite used to buzz about how Apple goes to market. CEO Steve Jobs is widely considered the greatest marketer alive, and nearly every marketer I've worked with has expressed sincere admiration for the magic the man is capable of weaving. His products are brilliant, and the cult around Jobs and his work are extraordinary.

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Adobe: We Love Ya, Apple - But We Don't Love What Ya Do.

John Battelle's Searchblog

This campaign - focused on "Choice" - just went live across the country in major print newspapers. Intersting that Adobe chose print for the impact - Adobe recently launched CS5 entirely on digital platforms so you can't faul tthe company for zigging and zagging. There's an online component as well.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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68% of 85% is really 57.8%

John Battelle's Searchblog

Google today announced that it gives publishers 68% of its take for AdSense advertisements, eliminating one of the longest guessing games in our industry. Everyone knew that AOL, Ask, and other large partners pre-negotiated their deals, but no one knew what "typical" AdSense players made. Now we do, apparently. This 68% split is relatively new. How do I know that?

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Google to Apple: The Web Is the Platform; iTunes, Not So Much

John Battelle's Searchblog

Google has fired a broadside across Apple's bow by announcing the Google Chrome Web Store , a great idea which, to my mind, has a mediocre name - one consistent with Google's ongoing struggles with branding in general. If I'm a typical consumer, I might be a bit confused by a name that 1. has "chrome" in it 2. has the word "store" but sells only apps and 3. has the word web in it - does that mean I can buy things on the web through it?

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Five Years In One Place, An Appreciation

John Battelle's Searchblog

Five years and about two months ago, I wrote a blog post announcing the creation of Federated Media Publishing. I will admit I was scratching an itch, not certain that it would work out. In that post I hedged a my bet - mainly because I was still smarting from the loss of my previous business - The Industry Standard - and I was not certain that I (or the world) was really ready for me to run a company again.

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Fear Is A No No - Except at Night

John Battelle's Searchblog

I love Fred's thoughts on being an entrepreneur - he backs some of the best. I don't write often here about my own experiences, but I can tell you, I certainly will, once the dust settles and I am not actively running a company. Upon reflection, I realize I've been doing this a long time. In fact, I've been starting companies since 1987, though my first real startup as a founder was in 1992.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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The ROI of iAds - A Lot of Unanswered Questions

John Battelle's Searchblog

Early last week I wrote a long-ish piece on the iAd – in which I both criticized and praised Apple for “re-gifting” a mobile ad format that already existed. Since then I’ve spoke with Apple’s head of corporate communications, as well as several other potential clients and agencies. I didn’t learn a lot from Apple, but I did get some context for this next installment.

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Google Steps Gingerly Toward Search As Application

John Battelle's Searchblog

When Bing launched, I framed the new service from Microsoft as an important step in the evolution of search: I actually don't think Microsoft is trying to out-Google Google with Bing. I think it's trying to build a different kind of search application, one that sits on top of commodity search and helps people make decisions in a new way. Done right, this totally breaks the AdWords model that has driven search so far.

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NetFlix On Its Market

John Battelle's Searchblog

Via KK and Cuban , I found this deck from NetFlix CEO Reed Hastings, who will be speaking at Web 2 Summit this year. It's a very transparent take on his company's market position, competitors, and prospects. Worth clicking through. Business Opportunity View more presentations from reed2002.

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OneRiot Indexes Facebook Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

From the real time search service's blog post: Until today, we’ve been indexing the links shared on Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Delicious and by our own OneRiot panel to help determine our search results. Now, with the addition of Facebook data, OneRiot delivers search results that reflect the pulse of a much, much wider social web. Also, the service seems a bit wary of what might come of all this: Now, of course, we’re only showing (indeed, only have access to) data that has been shared publicly by

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Help Me Interview Omar Hamoui, CEO AdMob

John Battelle's Searchblog

The CM Summit is three weeks away , and already I've asked for your input on four major voices in digital media and marketing: Arianna Huffington , Tony Hsieh , Tim Armstrong , and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Next on the hit list is Omar Hamoui, CEO of AdMob , the mobile marketing company Google recently acquired for $750 million. That acquisition hasn't gone as smoothly as Google would like - it's still under FTC review, though a decision is expected any day now.

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No no no! It's not about geeky sh*t. It's about the future of commerce!!!!

John Battelle's Searchblog

We trigger happy blogging geeks often get in our own way. Witness this Mashable article about an important patent granted to Apple. First, thank you Mashable, for pointing out this patent. But you miss the point! First, the patent: Apple has essentially patented the ability to sync actions between two or more devices. This could be something as simple as adding a to-do to my calendar on my Mac and having it automatically sent to my phone.

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IAB: Record First Quarter for Internet Advertising

John Battelle's Searchblog

From the IAB release on first quarter 2010: Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. hit $5.9 billion for the first quarter of 2010, representing a 7.5 percent increase over the same period in 2009, according to the numbers released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This marks the highest first-quarter revenue level ever for the industry.

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The ROI of iAds - Alot of Unanswered Questions

John Battelle's Searchblog

Early last week I wrote a long-ish piece on the iAd – in which I both criticized and praised Apple for “re-gifting” a mobile ad format that already existed. Since then I’ve spoke with Apple’s head of corporate communications, as well as several other potential clients and agencies. I didn’t learn a lot from Apple, but I did get some context for this next installment.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Recent Signals

John Battelle's Searchblog

For all you RSS consumers out there wondering what I do late at night: Thursday Signal: Still About Facebook. Weds. Signal: Facebook Losing Face? Tuesday Signal: A Walk in the Park. Thanks for reading.

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Help Me Interview Hilary Schneider, EVP Yahoo!

John Battelle's Searchblog

The CM Summit is now just two weeks away , and already I've asked for your input on five major voices in digital media and marketing: Arianna Huffington , Tony Hsieh , Tim Armstrong , Omar Hamoui , and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Next up is Hilary Schneider , EVP Americas, Yahoo! Hilary is a crucial member of CEO Carol Bartz's team, running Yahoo's largest and most public business in the US, among others.

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Help Me Interview Arianna Huffington

John Battelle's Searchblog

Longtime readers know that as each conference I host draws near, I invite you all to help me interview the luminaries who grace our stages. We're one month out from this year's CM Summit , and the lineup is incredible. I'm working backwards through the keynote conversations, and the conference will end with Arianna Huffington , the founder and EIC of The Huffington Post.

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