John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 17, 2010

Dear Apple: We miss you. Once upon a time, back before you got real popular , you used to take part in the public square. You may have been less forthcoming than most, but at least your employees would speak at industry events, have unscripted conversations with journalists, and engage in the world a bit here and there. But over the past few years, things seem to have changed.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 12, 2010

Creative Suite 5, the latest compendium of creative and rich internet software from global creative workflow giant Adobe launches today. The various flavors and editions are comprised of various point products (with 250 new features) familiar to creative professionals, and Adobe as a highly creative company have done their usual stellar job of laying out all [.

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Daradiction

APRIL 16, 2010

Honored to be included in this list! 10-entrepreneurs-changing-the-way-government-works. Tags: Capitalism Ethics and Social Justice Technology.

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Positively RIM

APRIL 13, 2010

The state of a program's transparency Can measure the ease those who care can see A RIM program's ways That emerge through the haze And that challenge all skeptics to dare and see.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 29, 2010

The Mexican Senate has unanimously approved a landmark data protection law governing information use in the private sector, la Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en posesión de los particulares. We provided information on the bill last week when the Chamber of Deputies voted to approve it. The legislation has been forwarded to the president for signature.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 28, 2010

This is very interesting news, but not unexpected if you've been paying attention. Note in the past I've predicted that Apple will not do web search, but will do "app search," because app search is essentially broken, if you can even call it search to begin with. It's more like directory navigation at this point. Today Apple announced acquisition of Siri , a personal assistant app that includes voice recognition and search capabilities.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 9, 2010

Ipad and iPhone developers look set to be trapped in a sea of Cocoa by Apple for the foreseeable future if the language of the latest iPhone OS 4 SDK proves to be enforceable by Apple. The only drink on the menu for developers are the Cocoa frameworks that consist of libraries, APIs, and [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 22, 2010

Yesterday a reporter from Cnet called and asked me a few provocative questions. He was writing a piece on Google as a marketer, and wanted my point of view. I'm not sure when his piece is coming out (or if my thoughts will be included), but our conversation helped me crystalize my thinking around Google and its brand, so I figured I best get it written down.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 30, 2010

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. In time, I think this expectation will leak into realspace as well.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 18, 2010

It's been a few days since Chirp, and I've had some time to digest all the news that broke last week. Certainly we'll have another meal this Weds. with Facebook's F8 , where it's already rumored that Facebook will both reveal its new "firehose" of public data (a la Twitter) as well as new approaches to monetization (see this piece from The Next Web , for example).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 6, 2010

I've been using Foursquare for a few months now, and I'm impressed with the service on many levels. But I have to be frank - the most impressive thing about it - at least in this test group of one - is what it *could* be, not what it is. First, the caveats. I use Foursquare, for the most part, on a Blackberry, which means the app is limited by RIM's hardware and software.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 11, 2010

Several moves by Twitter in the past week have Twitter developers understandably nervous about their future. Many of them have labored for months, if not years, to create applications on top of the open Twitter ecosystem, and they've created a lot of value in doing so. They have "filled holes" in Twitter's often bare bone service, creating Twitter- reading clients , Twitter application stores , Twitter filtering tools of all stripes, even Twitter analytics tools.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 12, 2010

(image from Ad Age ) The NYT has broken news of Twitter's initial version of its native ad platform , which it is calling "Promoted Tweets." I will acknowledge being briefed on this news prior to its breaking, and I did promise to withhold any comment until the news had been publicly broken. Now that the Times has provided me with a reason to sound off, here are my initial thoughts on the program.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 16, 2010

TC broke the news today that Tynt , a search interception and user behavior data company, got a big round of funding from Panorama Capital, which is also an investor in FM. I've installed the Tynt service on Searchblog and I'd like to get your response. I think what the service does is quite clever and useful both to publishers and users. However, it does create new user experience for those of us who cut and paste on sites, and I'm interested if folks find the new approach worthy.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 27, 2010

Just read this: Discovering pages “similar to” ones that you like - from the Google Blog. From it: One of the great things about the web is choice. There’s a website out there for nearly everything, and sometimes there are many sites all dedicated to a single topic. But how can you find all the sites that are related to the subject that interests you?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 11, 2010

It sure sounds that way, from this NYT story.: Bill Gross, the serial entrepreneur who pioneered search advertising, is unveiling a venture on Monday that aims to make money by allowing people using Twitter to bid on key words to give their posts top ranking. I'd say this was brilliant if it weren't for the fact (OK, not fact yet, but my strong sense) that Twitter is going to do something quite similar, soon.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 7, 2010

This from the IAB's annual revenue report. I'm a board member of the IAB, FWIW. From the release: Though U.S. Internet advertising revenues, at $22.7 billion for the year, showed a 3.4% decline from 2008, there are signs of an emergent recovery in the industry. The fourth quarter of 2009 hit a record quarterly high of $6.3 billion, a 2.6% increase year-over-year and a 14% increase over the third quarter of 2009.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 14, 2010

Ev Williams, CEO of Twitter, from stage today, notes this funny Google search suggest image.Twitter clearly has work to do.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 20, 2010

In a week when Facebook are expanding their ‘like’ button to cover the entire internet, the heads of the data protection authorities of several countries wrote to Google CEO Eric.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 23, 2010

Next week, as part of HP's sponsored Input/Output series , I'll be interviewed by the folks at BigThink. Here's the link to the webcast. I hope you'll join. I'm proud to be part of this program, as past guests have included best selling thinkers/authors like Chris Anderson and James Surowiecki. I've got big shoes to fill, and I need your help to fill em.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 4, 2010

The second installment of Toward A New Understanding of Publishing is up over at the FM Blog. From it: what does it mean to have a good voice? And how does that relate to publishing? Marketers have always aligned themselves with great voices: publishers whose communities reflect the Brand’s core values and promise. Some have even taken the next step – they’ve created those communities, extending beyond making a “traditional” media buy.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 19, 2010

I'm pleased to announce the agenda of our 5th CM Summit: Marketing in Real Time. I'm excited about of the mix of one-on-one interviews, hand-picked case studies, and focused discussions with leaders from major brand advertisers, agencies, and digital media companies. We've also added new networking opportunities so that conversation is at the center of the conference.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 4, 2010

To see more amazing video like the base jump above, a quick search on youtube or other video sharing website under the tag gopro will yield all sorts of sporting footage. GoPro make wearable video.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 4, 2010

To see more amazing video like the base jump above, a quick search on youtube or other video sharing website under the tag gopro will yield all sorts of sporting footage. GoPro make wearable video cameras designed to capture sports footage which are also designed to be attached to the outside of high velocity racing [.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 6, 2010

My Signal post is up over at FM. In it I ranted a bit about all the iPad hype , which is particularly dense here in the Valley: The iPad is not going to change the world this week. The world takes a long time to change. It doesn’t happen in one machine, or one year, or even one decade. Now, what the iPad represents – new approaches to user interfaces, sophisticated, third-generation software applications that are connected to and feed the Internet – yes, this is a very big deal.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 9, 2010

Ipad and iPhone developers look set to be trapped in a sea of Cocoa by Apple for the foreseeable future if the language of the latest iPhone OS 4 SDK proves to be enforceable by Apple.The only.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

In an era when the web appears to be getting ever more invasive, and where there are undercurrents of our unwittingly collaborating in some giant marketing graph of connections and preferences.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

In an era when the web appears to be getting ever more invasive, and where there are undercurrents of our unwittingly collaborating in some giant marketing graph of connections and preferences (today’s latest installment: Google maps cars recording MAC addresses), there’s a huge difference between being unknowingly mapped and recorded and granting consent.

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