John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2010
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).
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 31, 2010
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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Hunton Privacy
MAY 28, 2010
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
Positively RIM
MAY 20, 2010
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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MAY 24, 2010
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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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 10, 2010
( 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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 24, 2010
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?
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 19, 2010
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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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 25, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 20, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 21, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 5, 2010
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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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 1, 2010
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
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 16, 2010
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 [.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 26, 2010
Amongst the books I’ve been digesting recently, I’ve been ruminating on three which intersect in interesting ways.“Pull&# is suddenly a hot word with real time web enthusiasts: John Hagel, John Seeley Brown and Lang Davidson of the Deloitte Center for the Edge just published ‘The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 13, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 21, 2010
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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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 12, 2010
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.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 2, 2010
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.
Collaboration 2.0
MAY 2, 2010
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 [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 24, 2010
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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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 7, 2010
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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 17, 2010
As I do every three Signals or so, here are the links for you RSS readers out there. And for all you readers trying to decipher what I'm on about, there are hints all over these roundups. Not that you're paying attention that closely, but still, the threads are there. Tuesday Signal: Consider This. Monday Signal: The Open Book. Friday Signal: Thank God It’s Not Monday.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 11, 2010
Third on our hit list of CM Summit interviews is Tim Armstrong , CEO of AOL. Tim has now held that title for just about a year. Lately he's taken to rallying the AOL troops with this decidedly controversial slogan: " Beat the Internet !". If you want to find out what that's all about, how Tim's first year on the job has gone, and more, please come to the conference.
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