Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Financial market sentiment around Jive’s growth prospects will now play an increasingly important role in the broader space they have come from.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The Web is dead again, at least, according to a widely covered speech by Forrester Research’s George Colony. Speaking at Le Web last week, Colony claimed that the HTML web is a poorly architected half step in the next, obvious progression of platforms: a hybrid between what we’ve come to know as the Web and the crippled chicletized place I’ve been calling AppWorld.

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Robert's Db2

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I recently provided some assistance to an organization that was experiencing throughput issues in their CICS-DB2 online transaction environment. This company was migrating a large application from a non-IBM, non-relational DBMS to DB2 for z/OS, and the initial cut-over to DB2 placed a significant load on a mainframe system that didn't have a whole lot of spare cycles to begin with.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 29, 2011

On December 13, 2011, the Information Commissioner issued updated guidance on compliance with recent changes to UK law governing the use of cookies ( The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (“Regulations”)). Organizations were given a twelve-month grace period to comply with the new law. Initial guidance on the Regulations was released on May 9, 2011, but the Information Commissioner characterized that guidance as merely a “starting point for getting

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Somehow I got the idea in my head that it would be a good habit to generate a brief 'end of year' chronicle what I shipped for the year, and use it as the basis for reflection and celebration. 2011 was a BIG year for me. In context of how difficult these times are for most, I am grateful and this post is an exercise is counting my blessings on personal and professional fronts.

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Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Legacy application complexity coupled with next generation connected business needs is hugely challenging for large enterprise software companies.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

As I work on the book, I’ve come to use a shorthand for five companies that I’ve determined are critical drivers of what kind of society we’ll be living in one generation from now. At the moment I’m focused on just Internet companies, though I also plan on looking at other categories, such as energy, food, and health. My terminology has evolved in the past week from “the Five Horsemen” to simply “The Big Five.” I’ve got a few reasons for this

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has sent a clear message to UK website owners to “try harder” on compliance with the […].

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 21, 2011

On December 21, 2011, Mexico issued the final version of its Regulations of the Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties ( Reglamento de la Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares ). The regulations, which contain mostly minor changes to the prior draft that was released in October, will take effect on December 22, 2011.

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JKevinParker

DECEMBER 10, 2011

After a lot of good feedback and hard work, the folks at AIIM have re-branded the "information certification" as the "Certified Information Professional" (CIP). This is an excellent improvement, and will help in communicating the purpose and importance of this program and designation to a wider audience. I have updated my earlier post about me earning the certification.

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Elie

DECEMBER 23, 2011

While their is a huge hype surrounding.xxx domains and companies rushing to buy them to protect their brand, it seems that registration data disagree with this. My analysis of the 50000 most popular websites in the world shows that only 24% of them actually registered their.xxx domain.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I met with the CEO of TextPlus, and wrote up my experience here. I mentioned he has some news coming, and this is it: TextPlus, which is a popular free text messaging service, is launching free calling between TextPlus members today. Calling to regular lines is pretty cheap to boot (like 99 cents for 40 minutes). Why am I writing this up?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

( image ) For many years now I’ve made predictions, and for just as many years I review how I did. This is the week I do the reviewing, my predictions for 2012 should arrive around the New Year, assuming I find the right inspiration. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. We lost Steve Jobs, stupid Internet legislation reared its ugly head yet again in the form of SOPA, Internet IPOs came back in a big way (but didn’t perform as well as most would have liked), and the world woke up to

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 12, 2011

( image ) An interesting interview in the NYT I missed from last week, with noted author Neal Stephenson. In it, he riffs on something that’s been bugging me as I work on the book. Asked about “the future of computing,” he responds: “I’ll tell you what I’d like to see happen,” he said, and began discussing what the future was supposed to have looked like, back in his 1960s childhood.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Ten years ago, Google’s first Zeitgeist inspired my first book ( The Search ). Here are some highlights from the tenth annual edition. Props to Google for going deeper than most year end lists with its data. Now…open source the damn data, folks!!!

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So this week a well known VC made the trek to my writing retreat in Marin, and we hung out in a room that until this year was a large storage closet behind my garage. I rethought the space, soundproofed it, added a hodge-podge of AV gear and musical instruments, and named the place the “ Ross Social Club ” - on Foursquare, anyway. I haven’t really told anyone that I gave the place a name, but it was sort of an experiment – would anyone ever check in there besides me?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I’ve been quiet on Searchblog for most of the holidays, but I don’t expect that to continue in 2012. This will be the year of focusing on just two things: Federated Media, and The Book. Both will drive a lot of thinking, writing, and dialog on this site. I’ve been on vacation these past few days and it’s given me a fair amount of time to reflect on the past year, as well as on what’s to come for 2012.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 16, 2011

On November 30, 2011, Tracy Kitten, Managing Editor of BankInfoSecurity , interviewed Lisa J. Sotto , partner and head of the Global Privacy and Data Security practice at Hunton & Williams LLP. Discussing how data breaches can be game changers for organizations that suffer major incidents, Sotto emphasized that companies need to consider both the legal compliance issues involved with data breaches and potential reputational risks.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 16, 2011

On December 8, 2011, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted an Opinion on the European Advertising Standards Alliance (“EASA”) and IAB Europe best practice recommendations for the online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) industry to comply with Article 5.3 of the revised e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC (the “cookie clause”). The cookie clause requires a user’s informed consent for the use of cookies and similar technologies that store and access information in the user’s terminal

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 15, 2011

On December 1, 2011, a consolidated litigation against Netflix was ordered to private mediation pursuant to an agreement between the parties. As we previously reported , the plaintiffs allege that Netflix’s practice of maintaining customer movie rental history and recommendations after their subscriptions are cancelled violates the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”).

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 8, 2011

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to intervene to defend the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) against a consumer reporting agency accused of violating § 605 of the FCRA. On November 23, 2010, Shamara T. King filed suit against General Information Services, Inc.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Shortly before Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, gave her keynote address on binding corporate rules (“BCRs”) at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Paris, Hunton & Williams co-authored two articles on BCRs with the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”): Les “Binding Corporate Rules”: une solution globale pour les transferts internationaux, published in the August/September 2011 issue of the

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 6, 2011

In early December 2011, drafts of two legal instruments prepared by DG Justice of the European Commission to reform the EU data protection framework entered interservice consultation. This process will give other Directorates-General of the Commission the opportunity to comment on the drafts before they are formally released as legislative proposals; accordingly, changes to the drafts are likely.

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