October, 2009

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Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Collaboration 2.0

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft’s nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft’s silicon valley digs - announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for both sides and extends the simple to use but [.

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Web 2: Help Me Interview Jon Miller

John Battelle's Searchblog

Jon Miller has graced the Web 2 stage several times, most memorably when he was CEO of AOL, and both Google and Microsoft were competing for his company's search deal (Google won, that deal is close to expiration, and now-CEO Tim Armstrong , who helped Google win the deal back then, will be discussing, at the Summit, who he might next partner with - Microsoft or Google - but I digress.for now).

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Read Write Web Video Interview with Kurt Daradics: CitySourced Brings Real-Time Tech to Enterprise & Government

Daradiction

My good friend and Roadtwip compani0n Jolie O’Dell took some time to interview me at the Read Write Web Real Time Summit a few weeks ago in Mountain View. It’s a good overview of what we’re doing with CitySourced. -. CitySourced Brings Real-Time Tech to Enterprise & Government. The real-time web isn’t just for social apps.

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Interim Final Rule Implements Increased Penalties for HIPAA Violations

Hunton Privacy

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released an interim final rule to incorporate the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH Act”) categories of violations and tiered civil penalty amounts. The interim final rule is expected to be published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2009 and takes effect on November 30, 2009.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

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The Disney World According to GARP

Positively RIM

Last week, I high-tailed it down to Orlando for ARMA International’s 54th annual conference and expo. About 3500 other record-heads joined me for the official introduction of GARP, the "Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles" that have been brewing for over a year. I see GARP, and an accompanying maturity model for evaluating compliance to this new standard as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of information governance.

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John Hagel on Real Time, Social & Mobile Web

Collaboration 2.0

3 short video clips full of insight from John Hagel Real Time Web: Exception Handling Social Web: Tacit Knowledge Mobile Web: Early stages of value propositions in integrating physical and virtual worlds __ Also of interest regarding the mobile web: Mary Meeker’s slides from last week’s Web 2.0 Summit (you may want to jump to slide 28 for start of [.

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Search Does That. Social Does This. Give Me A Reese's Cup Please

John Battelle's Searchblog

If ever there was a strong meme in search, it's the impact of social: Everyone is talking about how Facebook and Twitter are threatening Google for what I've called the "oxygen" of the web: distribution of attention. A little background. Google rose to prominence as the absolute winner in the Internet's distribution game. The de facto interface for knowledge navigation, Google brought signal to the noise of Web 1.0: Sure, nearly everything worth publishing was now on the web, but how on earth co

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Peter Hirshberg of Technorati & The Conversation Group

Daradiction

Peter is a legendary figure. I’ve had the pleasure to meet Peter recently, he was on our EXCELLENT PANEL (worth the 40 mins!) at the Digital Family Summit #DFS09. I am totally inspired by who he’s being and what he’s up to, and I’m delighted that he’s taken an interest in the mobile 311 app we produced called CitySourced (powered by FreedomSpeaks ).

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FTC Extends Enforcement Deadline for Red Flags Rule (Again)

Hunton Privacy

The FTC today announced that it would, for the fourth time, delay enforcement of the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule. The enforcement date is now June 1, 2010 for creditors and financial institutions subject to FTC jurisdiction. The agency stated that the delay was requested by members of Congress, who are currently considering a bill that would limit the rule’s scope.

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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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What "Tweet" Needs to Become: To Share a Moment

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last week was big for Twitter. After years of speculation about whether the company was going to have a business model, Twitter announced two deals at our Web2 conference - first with Microsoft's Bing , and second with Google. Details of the deals were not disclosed, but as Google's Marissa Mayers admitted onstage, there were indeed financial terms.

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Web 2 Summit: Evan Williams

John Battelle's Searchblog

Big week last week for Twitter, two deals with two search powerhouses, new revenue, and new traffic will flow due to both. I asked about the pending search deals deep into the interview but Evan plays coy, the announcements come the following day.

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Twitter Continues Flattening, But Is This A Real Measure

John Battelle's Searchblog

Every month I look at Twitter's traffic, and for September, the trend continues to be flat to down. Has Twitter peaked, or is it time for the company to start showing us traffic through its API and via SMS, so we can really understand the service's growth? Here are Quantcast and Compete's data. The embedded chart is from Compete. While it's fair to argue they only capture traffic to Twitter.com, it's still instructive to see that traffic to that particular domain has flattened or fallen off.

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Web 2: Help Me Interview Tim Armstrong

John Battelle's Searchblog

Tim Armstrong didn't need the job, but he decided to accept Time Warner's offer to become the CEO of AOL anyway. Why? That's the first question I have for Tim when he joins us at Web 2 next week. What do you want me to ask him? As you most likely know, Tim came to AOL from Google, where he ran North American ad sales for years. Clearly, Tim relishes a challenge, and sees an opportunity.

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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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Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces

Collaboration 2.0

The problem is as old as work itself: you’re working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you’re carrying the weight of entire projects on your back and no one appears aware [.

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Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

Collaboration 2.0

There’s been a good flow of conversation around the role of ‘community management’ in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it’s a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out. The harsh facts though are that middle management tasked with [.

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Please Stop The Chattering Teeth.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Whoever is running these chattering teeth ads, cursing the Internet to another round of Punch The Monkey crap creative and all the consequences therein, STOP IT. But it's really all our fault, isn't it? Premium sites run remnant ad networks, and crap like this gets through faster than we can beat it back. We really do need some kind of crowdsourced feedback system so ads as annoying as this one get beat down, quickly, and never show up again, except to those who really want to see them.

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I've joined the Dachis Group

Collaboration 2.0

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate - and often urgent - collaborative needs of their [.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

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International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

Hunton Privacy

On November 4, join our privacy professionals at the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Madrid, Spain. Participate in various presentations on ways to manage the most challenging data protection issues in today’s global environment. In addition, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) will host a Data Protection and Privacy Workshop in conjunction with the conference.

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Court Finds that Lawyers Are Not Subject to the FTC’s Identity Theft Red Flags Rule

Hunton Privacy

It is being reported that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed this morning with the American Bar Association’s argument that the FTC’s Identity Theft Red Flags Rule ("Red Flags Rule" or the "Rule") does not apply to lawyers. The Rule implements Section 114 and 315 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (the "FACT Act").

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Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

Collaboration 2.0

After last week’s announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their ‘Social Business Software 4‘ yesterday at their San Francisco ‘Jiveworld‘ event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling with this far more customer centric occasion - one of Jive’s signature characteristics [.

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Provincial Consumer Protection Regulations in China May Affect Personal Data

Hunton Privacy

Although China has yet to enact a national data protection law, certain provincial-level rules implementing national consumer protection laws impact the collection and use of personal data. These provincial regulations may warrant specific attention by entities doing business in the relevant Chinese provinces. The impact of each of these will often be limited, both because they affect only enterprises doing business in the respective provinces and because the actual requirements of each of the

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Deutsche Bahn Accepts € 1.1 Million Fine Imposed for Violation of Data Protection Law

Hunton Privacy

On Friday, October 23, 2009, the German Railways Operator Deutsche Bahn AG announced that they would pay a fine of over €1.1 million that was imposed on October 16, 2009 by the Berlin data protection authority. This fine is the highest ever imposed by a German data protection authority. The imposition of this fine follows a major data protection scandal that reportedly broke out within the company.

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Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Collaboration 2.0

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies. This [.

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Web 2 2009

John Battelle's Searchblog

Literally some of the best work I've ever been involved with, yet again, six years in. Many of you asked for the playlist I used for the show (coverage best seen at #w2s , lots of news happened at the event, including Sergey Brin stopping by). Here's a screen shot of my playlist. I'll make it live soon. (And yes, btw, the songs and their timing with sessions often mean something.

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As Red Flags Deadline Looms, Attempts to Limit Scope Advance

Hunton Privacy

The November 1st deadline for compliance with the FTC’s Red Flags Rule Identity Theft Prevention Program requirements is rapidly approaching. Of late, there has been a flurry of activity aimed at limiting the scope of the rule. The Red Flags Rule, which was jointly promulgated by several federal agencies in November 2007, requires all “creditors” that offer or maintain a “covered account” to implement a written identity theft prevention program.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Agencies Expected to Publish Final Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Model Privacy Notice

Hunton Privacy

The federal financial services agencies are expected to shortly announce a proposed-final Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) model form privacy notice. The model notice incorporates financial institutions’ required disclosures pursuant to Section 503 of the GLBA. Financial institutions that use the form to provide notice to consumers will be deemed in compliance with the privacy notice provisions of the GLBA.

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Former UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas CBE Joins Hunton & Williams

Hunton Privacy

Hunton & Williams is pleased to announce that Richard Thomas CBE , the former UK Information Commissioner, has joined the firm as Global Strategy Adviser. Richard Thomas was the UK’s Information Commissioner from November 2002 until his retirement at the end of June 2009. He was appointed by HM The Queen and held independent status, reporting directly to Parliament, on a range of regulatory, promotional and advisory responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Inform

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SharePoint 2010 Vegas First Impressions

Collaboration 2.0

Kirk J Koenigsbauer • Microsoft Trying to write a blogpost about the SharePoint 2010 announcements today here in Las Vegas is like trying to summarize Microsoft in a few paragraphs. SharePoint, the fastest growing product in the company’s history, is also arguably the heir to the post billg empire. As foundational to the future of Microsoft [.

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