Collaboration 2.0
DECEMBER 26, 2012
The biggest solar storm on record in 1859 brought down US and European telegraph systems and lit up the world sky with Aurorae; a similar storm today would wreak havoc with power grids and fry delicate electronics. Your cloud infrastructure platforms are particularly vulnerable.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
The post Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.
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ChiefTech
AUGUST 7, 2012
workspace design historically mirrored the organizational chart, with people jockeying to be as close as possible to the seat of all power – the CEO. But now that information revolution has made information the new seat of power, there is much more flexibility in workspace design. Historically, all sorts of technologies have impacted phyiscal workplace design.
Robert's Db2
DECEMBER 28, 2012
A few days ago I received a question that I believe reflects a rather widely held misconception about DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures. In the interest of clearing the air, I'll provide in this entry the information that I communicated to my question-asking friend. Native SQL procedures were introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS in new-function mode (or with DB2 10 in new-function mode, for those organizations that migrated or are migrating to DB2 10 from DB2 V8).
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Collaboration 2.0
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Mary Meeker's slide vividly depicts the relentless march of mobile OS into the heart of desktop QWERTY keyboard land.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. And if we lose the web, well, we lose more than funny cat videos and occasionally brilliant blog posts.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 22, 2012
Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross , Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). Talk naturally turned to the implications of Google’s controversial integration of Google+ into its search results – a move that must both terrify (OMG, Google is gunning for us!
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2012
The post As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) There’s a hubbub in the press this week about Google employing a “ Double Irish – Dutch Sandwich ” tactic to funnel profits from Europe over to Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax. Reuters reports that the company saved around $2 billion in taxes by employing the structure, which, as far as I can tell, is perfectly legal.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2012
I’m going to add another Saturday morning sketch to this site, and offer a caveat to you all: I’ve not bounced this idea off many folks, and the seed of it comes from a source who is unreservedly biased about all this. But I thought this worth airing out, so here you have it. Given that Google+ results are dominating so many SERPs these days, Google is clearly leveraging its power in search to build up Google+.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
The news alert from the Wall St. Journal hit my phone about an hour ago, pulling me away from tasting “ Texas Bourbon ” in San Antonio to sit down and grok this headline: Google’s iPhone Tracking. Now, the headline certainly is attention-grabbing, but the news alert email had a more sinister headline: “Google Circumvented Web-Privacy Safeguards.” Wow!
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 10, 2012
Perusing my feeds today, I saw this post from Google’s blog: Search, plus Your World. In the post, Google extols the virtues of incorporating results such as “your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 15, 2012
A highlight of TED this year was watching my pal Rob Reid do a short talk on the math of those who claim piracy is killing the content business. It’s short, it’s really funny, and it’s a prequel of sorts for Rob’s wonderful new comic novel, which comes out in May.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
The post Facebook Is Now Making Its Own Weather appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) The past month or so has seen the rise and fall of an interesting Internet tempest – the kind of story that gets widely picked up, then quickly amplified into storms of anger, then eventually dies down as the folks who care enough to dig into the facts figure out that the truth is somewhere outside the lines of the original headline-grabbing story.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Who remembers the moment, back in 1995, when Bill Gates wrote his famous Internet Tidal Wave Memo ? In it he rallied his entire organization to the cause of the Internet, calling the new platform an existential threat/opportunity for Microsoft’s entire business. In the memo Gates wrote: “I assign the Internet the highest level of importance.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
The post The Facebook Ad Network Is Here appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s been a pretty good year for my annual predictions , I must say. A few months ago I did my “ how’ve I done so far this year ” post, and found myself batting about.500. Yesterday Facebook pushed up my average with the announcement that it’s begun testing a mobile ad network.
Collaboration 2.0
APRIL 29, 2012
Finally a thoughtful, hype free book worth reading about digital marketing, the relationships we have with vendors and a vision for a better future where we have greater control of our personal data
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 11, 2012
( image ) In today’s business climate, it’s not normal for corporations to cooperate with each other when it comes to sharing core assets. In fact, it’s rather unusual. Even when businesses do share, it’s usually for some ulterior motive, a laying of groundwork for future chess moves which insure eventual domination over the competition.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 7, 2012
It’s all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. No one pays attention to banner ads, the reasoning goes, and the model never really worked in the first place (except for direct response). Brand marketers are demanding more for their money, and “standard display” is simply not delivering.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 16, 2012
( image ) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation… As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week’s Google+ integration, I’ve also be thinking about Facebook’s next moves. There’s been plenty of speculation in the past that Facebook might compete with Google directly – by creating a full web search engine.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 30, 2012
One of only two photos to emerge from last night's Wilco concert, image Eric Henegen. Last night my wife and I did something quite rare – we went to a concert on a Sunday night, in San Francisco, with three other couples (Wilco, playing at The Warfield). If you don’t have kids and don’t live in the suburbs, you probably think we’re pretty lame, and I suppose compared to city dwellers, we most certainly are.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 11, 2012
( image ) Facebook claims the data we create inside Facebook is ours – that we own it. In fact, I confirmed this last week in an interview with Facebook VP David Fischer on stage at FM’s Signal P&G conference in Cincinnati. In the conversation, I asked Fischer if we owned our own data. He said yes. Perhaps unfairly (I’m pretty sure Fischer is not in charge of data policy), I followed up my question with another: If we own our own data, can we therefore take it out of Fac
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John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
The post Post Apple Rant, What Have We Learned? A Visit With A “Genius” Ain’t Enough appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I think I’ve said it before, if you want to attract attention, write about Apple. A rant which had been boiling inside me for some months finally erupted into words last Thursday, and since that post, more than 60,000 people have come to this site, leaving more that 300 comments and sharing the story’s link nearly 3000 times across
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Over the weekend I finished Larry Lessig’s most recent (and ambitious) book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It. Amongst those of us who considered Lessig our foremost voice on issues of Internet policy, his abrupt pivot to focus on government corruption was both disorienting and disheartening: here was our best Internet thinker, now tilting at government windmills.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2012
The post For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) Wow. That’s about the sum of my initial reaction to this story from ATD: Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS. The wow isn’t that Microsoft is trying to reduce the 30% cut Apple takes on every dollar that flows through the iOS ecosystem.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 9, 2012
Waaaay back in January, I rolled out my annual predictions. Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. I may have to start doing these things monthly, given the pace of our industry. Prediction #5 was that it’d be a big year for Internet M&A. I further singled out Instagram as a company that would likely be bought, and figured there’d be a battle between Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google for the prize.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 1, 2012
The post OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m very excited to announce that registration is now open for OpenCoSF , a new kind of event that I’m helping to bring into the world. Registration is free and open to anyone who’s interested in innovation in the Bay area. You can sign up here.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 5, 2012
As I have written in previous predictions, I’ve been focusing on the Internet Big Five lately, and expect that to continue this year, as the group, collectively, are something of a “character” in my upcoming book (as is Twitter, the “free radical”). Other characters include “The Government” and “Corporations,” so expect predictions about those players in the next few days.
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The number of people who can read and write code, particularly for mobile devices, is dangerously low: what's needed are easier ways to create software you can use in the context of your specific needs.
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