John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

'The post Why The Banner Ad Is Heroic, and Adtech Is Our Greatest Artifact appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote The Search , that hero was Google – the book wasn’t about Google alone, but Google’s narrative worked to drive the entire story. As Sara and I work on If/Then , we’ve discovered one unlikely hero for ours: The lowly banner ad.

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 9, 2013

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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ChiefTech

MARCH 13, 2013

Unlike most of the Yammer case studies I've seen, Tyco International set out with the deliberate objective of replacing their traditional static intranet with Yammer, in order to create a social intranet. This video provides an introduction to the Tyco case study: There is further detail in this presentation: Tyco Transformed: A Case Study from Yammer.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog : The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey recently ruled that non-public Facebook wall posts are protected under the Federal Stored Communications Act (the “SCA”) in Ehling v. Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corp. , No. 2:11-CV-3305 (WMJ) (D.N.J. Aug. 20, 2013). The plaintiff was a registered nurse and paramedic at Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corp.

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Elie

MARCH 7, 2013

Early July 2012, I reported to Apple numerous vulnerabilities related to their App Store iOS app. Last week Apple finally issued a fix for it and turned on HTTPS for the App Store. I am really happy that my spare-time work pushed Apple to finally enabled HTTPS to protect users.

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Daradiction

MARCH 28, 2013

Eversince I read Kalle Lasn's (Adbusters Founder) book "Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America" I've been fascinated with his anti consumer stance. Idealism aside, this set of images from his most recent book "Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Econmics" paints a stark contrast to business as usual.

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Interactive Information Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

This is some professional perspective and analysis regarding a recent campaign to raise donation capital through crowdsourced funding tools available on KickStarter. At the end of the day, the campaign was not funded, and didn't reach its goals (From $100K to $1M). Not that it didn't have a chance, and wasn't backed by some very savvy and knowledgeable product designers/developers - the failure was all about Marketing 101.

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JKevinParker

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I was honored by my current employer, T. White Parker (no relation), to be given their "Star Award" as employee of the year for 2013. This award is for "dedication and outstanding contribution". This firm has taught me a lot about management consulting and federal contracting. I feel I have taught them some things, also, about information management and technology.

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CGI

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Meaningful Outcomes. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Tue, 12/17/2013 - 05:45. It’s long been fashionable for us to knowingly advise each other to focus on outcomes. This is just common sense, so it’s hard to fault. But there’s an angle on outcomes which is usually overlooked. What constitutes an outcome to him, might not constitute one to her. It’s all down to our personal motivations.

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HIPAA

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Who is ultimately responsible for enforcement of HIPAA and what types of penalties are levied when a covered entity or business associate is found to be non-compliant with the regulations? Many healthcare offices and their staff don’t know the answer to this question; they have only a vague notion about the enforcement and the consequences of not adhering to the law.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 9, 2013

'The post Google Now: The Tip of A Very Long Spear appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Yesterday my co-author and I traveled down to Google, a journey that for me has become something of a ritual. We met with the comms team for Google X, tested Google Glass, and took a spin in a self-driving car. And while those projects are fascinating and worthy of their own posts (or even chapters in the book), the most interesting meeting we had was with Johanna Wright, VP on the Android team

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Collaboration 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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ChiefTech

MAY 23, 2013

'Yesterday I attended day 1 of SAP SuccessFactor''s SuccessConnect conference in Sydney. I was there to learn more about SAP''s roadmap for its enterprise social software offering (SAP Jam) and also to see how well it currently extends into the broader SAP''s HR technology ecosystem. One of the pleasant surprises of the day was seeing the latest mobile app from SuccessFactors, which integrates JAM and other applications from their suite: I have to admit this app really raises the bar in terms of

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, the Minister of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (the “Minister”) announced that Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the “Act”) would be going into effect as of November 15, marking the end of years of postponements. The following features of the law are of particular significance: The law applies only to the processing of personal data in commercial transactions (in effect, private sector transactions, though not including credit reporting a

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Elie

JANUARY 13, 2013

Almost one in five US Internet users report that one of their online accounts had been comprised at some point. That is the result of the study I conducted using Google Consumer Surveys. This a much higher percentage than I imagined and it emphasizes how pervasive account compromises are.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 25, 2013

In part one of this two-part blog entry, I pointed out that the notion that one cannot control a DB2 for z/OS client-server workload as one can a local-to-DB2 application is quite outdated, and I described a couple of the mechanisms (native SQL procedures, and roles and trusted contexts) by which a DB2 DDF workload can be controlled. In this part two entry, I'll cover some of the other available options for conforming DB2 client-server activity to organizational requirements.

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Daradiction

MARCH 20, 2013

Everyday fun in Austin, bumping into one of my favorite minds of our time, Stephen Wolfram. Stephen's SXSW keynote was remarkable. You can read it here in 10 mins. His vision for the future ( Principal of Computational Equivalence ) is pretty wild. His ability to articulate his vision, and his body of work is undoubtably impressive. Stephen announced a new programing language called "Wolfram" (.wolf extension), which he's proclaiming as the convergence of the past 30 years of his work.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

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Interactive Information Management

JULY 24, 2013

The Chief Marketing Technology Officer (CMTO) is recently an often-proposed role, that combines the interactive marketing savvy and experience of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the traditional information technology operations, management and investment knowledge of a CIO or CTO. More and more often, digital marketing requirements of an organization need a healthy integration of both marketing and IT skills.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The number of class-action lawsuits brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) against businesses that regularly call consumers for […].

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CGI

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Turning Content Inside Out. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 12/12/2013 - 10:00. Content is changing - from author-controlled to consumer and collaboration-led. We review why this is happening and what an organisation can do to gain the benefits, cost and efficiency savings that will start to follow. The problem with 'old' Content. Content is produced today by most organisations in the same way since the 1980's when personal computers were introduced and 'personal productivity' software became availabl

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HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. PHI includes patients’ names, addresses, and all information pertaining to the patients’ health and payment records. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, “ HIPAA Rules apply to covered entities and business associates.” Complete compliance with HIPAA guidelines requires implementation of basic a

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 13, 2013

'The post Behind the Banner, A Visualization of the Adtech Ecosystem appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m very proud to announce “ Behind the Banner “, a visualization I’ve been producing Jer Thorp and his team from The Office for Creative Research , underwritten by Adobe as part of the upcoming CM Summit next week.

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 14, 2013

Autodesk, academia and coming-of-age firms like Stratsys and Organovo are all collaborating on an incredible new dimension on creation with programable materials

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ChiefTech

MARCH 13, 2013

Back in 2011 lots of people were skeptical about Atos CEO, Thierry Breton, and his war on email. However, the Financial Times reports that Atos are making progress: "Almost two years on, zero email has not only begun to take hold within Atos, but the initiative has attracted interest from a growing number of business leaders.". (Sorry, the link above might get paywalled when you click on it).

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On December 16, 2013, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) released a set of practical FAQs (plus technical tools and relevant source code) providing guidance on how to obtain consent for the use of cookies and similar technologies in compliance with EU and French data protection requirements (the “CNIL’s Guidance”). Article 5.3 of the revised e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC imposes an obligation to obtain prior consent before placing or accessing cookies and similar technologies on web

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Scary Beasts Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Back in November 2012, a Chrome Releases blog post mysteriously stated: "Congratulations to Pinkie Pie for completing challenge: 64-bit exploit". Chrome patches and autoupdates bugs pretty fast but this is a WebKit bug and not every consumer of WebKit patches bugs particularly quickly. So I've waited a few months to release a full breakdown of the exploit.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 16, 2013

At System z sites all over the world, DB2 for z/OS workloads are growing -- often at a brisk clip. You'd think that this would be unqualified good news for the folks who support mainframe DB2 subsystems , but in fact some people view a lot of this new DB2 activity with trepidation. Why? Because the lion's share of application work being implemented these days on a DB2 for z/OS foundation is of the client-server variety.

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

'In 2008 I met Kris Krug. We share several auspiciously random overlapping networks, and since 2008 our friendship has blossomed into a deep personal friendship and working collaboration. Kris is professional photographer / photo journalist and he has some fantastic clients including TED.com, United Nations, National Geographic, and the company that I'm working for, Esri.

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