2009

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Social Media Revolution?

Collaboration 2.0

Here’s another YouTube video - ‘Social Media Revolution’ - conflating a lot of stats in order to make a case for ‘Social Media‘ being the ‘biggest shift since the industrial revolution‘ Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us started this style of delivery and really amplified the potency of the Web 2.0 movement in 1997.

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All Business Starts With A Community

John Battelle's Searchblog

Today I was on my way back to our house after dropping my kids off to camp, and I decided to stop by a local cafe for a quick coffee-n-chat. Now, in August, "our house" means a century-old family place on an island, an island that rather pugnaciously refuses to allow large chain stores to set down roots. So it's fair to say that this island is sort of a Galapagos of small business.

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Got 2020 Clear Vision?

Daradiction

Folks over estimate what they can do in a year and under estimate what they can do in ten. No doubt you’d agree how quickly this past decade has flown by. My one regret is that I wasn’t nearly as intentional about the effects I wanted to create. I didn’t find my North Star (community empowerment) until quite recently. As I reflect upon the past decade and get clear about my vision for my life by 2020 there are a few stories that I would like to share with you: Petunia Pickle

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

ChiefTech

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. He founded the company “ Content Crew ” in 2006, and is its CEO since this time. This company specializes on the production of podcast, with the focus on audio.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

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CVS Pays $2.25 Million in Record HIPAA Settlement

Hunton Privacy

CVS Pharmacy (“CVS”), reportedly the largest retail pharmacy chain, has agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) $2.25 million and submit a Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”) to HHS after an extensive nationwide investigation by the HHS Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) which revealed that CVS employees disposed of protected health information (“PHI”) in violation of

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English's Millionth Word: Web 2.0

John Battelle's Searchblog

For the past few days I've been focused on a final draft of an essay, co-authored with Tim O'Reilly, focusing on the theme of this year's Web 2.0 Summit. It's rewarding work, reminiscent of the early days of Wired, when I'd regularly edit or write long form pieces focusing on big ideas and the future, but grounded in real world examples from today. But writing and editing this kind of stuff is also challenging work, and I often procrastinate, as I am right now, by writing a blog post or skimming

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Apple: Is The Worm Turning?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Early this year, well, January 1, to be exact, I made this prediction about our friends at Apple: Apple will see a significant reversal of recent fortunes. I sense this will happen for a number of reasons. but I think the main one will be brand related - a brand based on being cooler than the other guy simply does not scale past a certain point. I sense Apple has hit that point.

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Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook.

Collaboration 2.0

Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England was fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited after she wrote that her job was dull on her Facebook profile. “all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!‘&# … “im so totally bord!!!&# 16-year-old Swann said she never mentioned by name the company [.

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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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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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Online Diplomacy: the Famous Fedex Twitter/Email Exchange

Collaboration 2.0

You may have seen the drama this week around a social media ad agency representative whose negative Twitter message about Memphis, Tennessee was read and responded to by one of his client FedEx’s employees. James Andrews, ‘@keyinfluencer‘ on Twitter, was flying into Fedex global headquarters in Memphis to present on digital media to the worldwide communications [.

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Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

Collaboration 2.0

An interesting US national poll from Common Sense Media asking ‘is social networking changing childhood?‘ opens up some wider issues. Common sense media suggest their poll… …illustrates a continuing disconnect between parents and kids when it comes to kids’ digital lives. In today’s society, there is more technology and less time for parents to supervise their kids’ actions and [.

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Early July Data: Twitter Growing, but Slowly

John Battelle's Searchblog

A month ago I posted that Twitter was back to strong growth after a weak month of June. I just took at look at the numbers for August, which you can see in the screen shot here (I'm using Compete's data , but you can check out Quantcast , which is a "rough estimate" and has not posted any July data yet.). Twitter is still growing, according to this data, but not at the breakneck pace of the past.

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As We Head Toward A More Conversational Interface, Can AdWords Keep Up?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Gian Fulgoni, Executive Chair of Comscore, has an interesting analysis of what's happening in paid search lately. It's germane to my earlier posts about paid search share sliding and Google's decision to allow trademark ad bidding. In his post, Gian notes that overall search queries are up dramatically (68% over two years) but: if one looks at the number of paid clicks, the growth rate is a lower 18%, which raises the question: why have paid clicks grown 3x slower than the total number of querie

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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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Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks

Collaboration 2.0

During a telephone conversation between us last week Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch said he was going to pick up on my Collaboration Networks meme, and he has now produced a solid post on this topic. Aaron takes on the number one issue plaguing widespread adoption of broad Enterprise 2.0 strategy: piecemeal departmental use of collaboration tools, [.

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Caffeine: A Fundamental Rewrite of Google, A Shift to Real Time

John Battelle's Searchblog

Matt Cutts points to a video interview (embedded above) on Google's Caffeine infrastructure update. "It's a pretty fundamentally big change" Matt says. What I'd like to know is why and in response to what changes on the web. Of course, the major changes in how the web works are clear: Real Time Search. In this post (and/or this one ) I said: In short, Google represents a remarkable achievement: the ability to query the static web.

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When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death.

Collaboration 2.0

For those who think collaboration technology simply breaks down rigid command and control management hierarchies, consider the origins of the term: the military. The US military have had a significant online presence with various online forums for rank and file, commanders and other lines of business - all behind user name and password of course - [.

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Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Collaboration 2.0

Three posts about ‘failure’ in the ‘Enterprise 2.0′ space in the last few days from Sameer Patel (’Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure’ guest blogging on Michael Krigmans’ ‘IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise 2.0: what a crock).

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

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'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

Collaboration 2.0

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker’s birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. (The paper version is a keeper). Drucker’s tremendous body of work has been distilled into the usual bumper sticker phrases [.

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The iPhone Telephony Tragedy

Collaboration 2.0

I’ve got a first gen iPhone and live in San Francisco, the heart of Apple country. The voice communication part of it has been slowly getting worse and is now virtually unusable. A first gen iphone is of course ancient history to an Apple or Mobile Tech fanboy but the reality is many people are [.

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McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape

Collaboration 2.0

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 [.

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Just Give Me One Modal Dialog.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Back when I was reporting the book, I remember a meeting I had with Gary Flake , then the lead technologist at Overture, now a Fellow at Microsoft running Live Labs, responsible for stuff like Seadragon, Photosynth, and now, Pivot, an experimental approach to large datasets that attempts to rethink some fundamental approaches to what we understand search to be today.

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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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Tell Me This Ain't Facebook, Er, Twitter, Er, Both.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Google's new iGoogle upgrades smacks of Facebook. Read this: we're excited to introduce social gadgets for iGoogle. Social gadgets let you share, collaborate and play games with your friends on top of all the things you can already do on your homepage. The 19 social gadgets we're debuting today offer many new ways to make your homepage more useful and fun.

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New Socialtext Microblogging Appliance Signals Increased Flexibility

Collaboration 2.0

Socialtext are making available an ‘unbundled’ appliance version of their microblogging product ‘Signals‘ at an attractive $US1 per user per month, plus $1,000 per month server subscription. With the rapid increase in business use of Twitter, the hugely successful but internet based free microblogging platform, there has come an attendant focus on security concerns in [.

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Twitter = YouTube.

John Battelle's Searchblog

What? Is Battelle crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most folks (including me) saw this as Google "getting into the video business," and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all know, making money from consumer driven video ain't a cakewalk, and hosting that video is really, really expensive.

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Predictions 2009

John Battelle's Searchblog

Related: 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did. 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. In each of the past five years I've written a predictions post - usually at year's end or by the first of January. This one is late, and I'll admit it's because I found it hard to write.

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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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What's Up With Feedburner?

John Battelle's Searchblog

For the best few days, I've been trying to edit the settings in my Feedburner account - the RSS feeds service that was once so useful, but since its purchase by Google, seems to have languished. Unfortunately, it seems I've forgotten my password (though I used the same one for Feedburner as many other similar services), and the user name I thought I always used is getting bounced back to me as not recognized.

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Google's Real Time, Squared Response

John Battelle's Searchblog

The Google Twitter Facebook goat rodeo is getting more interesting. At its Searchology event this week, (TC/Post coverage ), Google unveiled a suite of new offerings that feel reactive to various competitors, including "Google Squared," a Google Labs response to Wolframs' new Alpha (more on that soon). Reuters bills it this way : Google also showed off a new feature, available immediately, that lets users view only the most timely search results, narrowing the results for a topic to the past 24

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I Blew It On Facebook

John Battelle's Searchblog

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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