Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of ‘Web 2.0 in business‘ research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I’d argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company presumably smells money given their focus for their prospects [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Well, I knew this day would come. I've been ignoring friend requests on Facebook for a month or so because, well, my longstanding friending policy has backfired, and I'm now at my "friend limit" of 5000 (well, 5003, to be exact). This limit has been much discussed, and I'm not sure I can add anything to what has become a timeworn dialog. It is what it is, and to be honest, I think 5000, upon reflection, is way too high a number.
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Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
On September 23, 2009, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”), the UK’s data protection regulator, issued a press release announcing the approval of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation’s binding corporate rules (“BCR”) under the new mutual recognition procedure. Hyatt is the first UK applicant to receive approval under the mutual recognition procedure.
Positively RIM
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Last week, an unexpected overlap “slapped me upside the face”: A prime challenge of corporate Records & Information Management matched current events, political opinion and social tumult. First the RIM part: The Records Director of a large financial services corporation called to ask for help implementing an enterprise RIM program. Apparently, the program is well written, comprehensive, and ready to deploy.
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Scary Beasts Security
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Preface: unless otherwise noted, the bugs discussed here were found via fuzzing by Will Dormann of CERT -- and my involvement was to fix them. In other news, I recently moved to work on the Chromium project / Google Chrome, which I'm very excited about. It is in this new role that this piece of work was conducted, as part of HTML5 features. I recently fixed a lot of security bugs in ffmpeg, across a subset of the supported containers and codecs.
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Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. The sheer volume of instructionally toned sets of slides, earnestly explaining [.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 6, 2009
Distance learning - providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance - has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take a pounding given the huge personal expense and often substantial debt involved, so [.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Successfactors (SFSF) the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace ‘Business Execution Software’, which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here on ZD Net prior to the analyst briefing today The people performance market—SuccessFactors’ current [.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
There’s so much going on in the cloud world you need air traffic control to figure out what solutions to your problems are safe to bring to earth and put to work. The instant gratification world of cloud - select solution> apply credit card to seat licenses> presto! up and running in no time - has [.
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Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled ‘Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies‘ The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in that will help you find budget, staffing and most importantly cultural traction - [.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it’s interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. The Microsoft business division produces the ‘Office‘ suite - the Word word [.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a ‘gut feel’ about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact. The Tom Peters & Bob Waterman 1982 book ‘In Search [.
Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
Here’s an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM’s Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus Software and then later with Mark Dickelman who is the senior vice president [.
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Collaboration 2.0
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
We’ve all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some mysterious form you’d never heard of before, not enough proof of identity or [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Danny Sullivan over at SEL has really teed off on Yahoo's search strategy , and any time he goes off, it's worth a read. From it: USER INTERFACE CHANGES WON’T LET YAHOO COMPETE IN SEARCH. Got it? Write it down, someone come check back on this in five years. If Yahoo’s moved up in search share thanks to outsourcing search and just toying with the user interface, I’ll eat those words somehow — covered even in Yahoo purple frosting.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Thanks to the BingTweets program, I've been asked to opine on search and decision engines. I'm kind of proud of my third and final post , which riffs on the first two and goes a bit, well, meta. I'd love to know what you guys think of it. I'll repost the first half here, and link back to the whole post on the original site that commissioned the work.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Today was a good day. I got to meet with serious leaders of the Internet economy, think Big Thoughts, and push my understanding of the world a bit. In short, I spent the day with folks I'll be interviewing onstage at Web 2 next month, but also, with people who run companies that in one way or another are key partners and players in the ecosystem I love and in which my company (FM) works.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
I had an extraordinary day yesterday, in terms of who I got to talk with. Not only did I meet with several of FM's partners - two Fortune 500 marketers, a major platform partner, and a major blogger - I also got to watch the launch of Ad Stamp and the complete schedule for the Web 2 Summit. But a highlight of the day had to be my chance to steal 30 or so minutes with the founder of DigitalGlobe , Dr.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
Jeff Immelt is the CEO of GE, one of the largest enterprises in the history of the world. Let that sink in for a moment, it's not a trivial concept. One of the largest enterprises ever devised by mankind - General Electric. The Microsoft, nay, the Google of the 20th century, and not content with that success, Immelt and his team of hundreds of thousands of employees is bending toward the task of once again redefining the nearly 150-year-old company.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
This graph is a rough estimate, does not include use of Twitter apps, mobile, etc. It's just traffic to Twitter.com. But it has proven a reliable trending mechanism for Twitter. And it shows a leveling off. Now, I am going to go out on a limb and say the growth is probably mostly in mobile and third party instances. But still.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Tim A. - who I will interview at Web 2 next month - says the future of AOL is in content. This is a drum he's been beating for some time, and I still find it intriguing that the man responsible for advertising at Google, a famously technology-driven company, is now a content nut. The Chair of the FCC has reawakened the net neutrality debate and Comcast and Larry Lessig have already weighed in.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
Thanks to those of you who chimed in, via email, Twitter, Facebook, and comments, on our first interview at Web 2 next month with Brian Roberts. Next up on day one is Evan Williams , CEO of Twitter. I've had the pleasure before (at FM's CM Summit), and posted on it here. But much has changed in the past year. Twitter has become a mainstream brand, grown to tens of millions of active users, and raised a lot more money (and speculation continues that it has raised even more, at a billion dollar va
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Nielsen's first half Y/Y comparison numbers came out for the ad industry yesterday , and as one might expect, they were not pretty. The Web did not escape unscathed. SAI has a nice chart , reproduced here.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I live in the Bay area, a place that has been, in the past 20 or so years, woefully underserved by what those in the quality news business call, well, quality news. I also am a graduate of a fine Bay area quality new journalism program, and I taught there as well. And before I started my career in technology journalism and entrepreneurial pursuits, my first ever idea was to create a "quality" newspaper for the Bay area.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
What more can be said about Carol Bartz ? Her appearance at the helm of Yahoo has certainly energized the company and given both its supporters and detractors plenty to talk about. But beyond the colorful language and straight shooting demeanor lies one of the most challenging turnarounds in Internet history (at least from this observer's point of view).
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John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Unemployment is up and continuing to rise, the recession, while possibly, maybe, sort of technically over, does not feel over at all, and while Murdoch says " things are better " in the advertising economy, "better" means "no longer totally crap.". So why on earth would I write a headline like the one adorning this post? Because despite all that bad news, there's a fair amount of good news in the web space.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Bing is announcing new visual search features today. The post outlining it all is not yet up, but here are details and links from an email sent to me earlier: Link to the blog post, not yet up, but soon they promise. Link to the announcement on TC50 stage. Text from the email, edited for clarity: On Monday, Microsoft will launch a new beta feature in Bing, it's new decision engine, called Visual Search that is a new, easy way to search by clicking instead of typing.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
A spate of Google books coming out, including one from Ken Auletta and one already out from Jeff Jarvis, and another from Richard Brandt. Ken's book has dangling, draw-you-in quote, as usual: Apparently Eric Schmidt told him that Google will be the world's first $100billion media company. MEDIA company, mind you. MEDIA. Oh, never mind.
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