John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 17, 2010
In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. He writes: " But it seems unlikely that it’s going to become a revolutionary company, along the lines of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.Groupon, by contrast, is a much more old-school business. It doesn’t have any obvious technological advantage.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 19, 2010
Facebook, the current common denominator social graph provider, have rolled out another component which they have turned on by default between you and your friends within the USA (and who knows who else behind the scenes). Your friends can now ‘check you in‘ to a geographical location at a specific time (much as they can tag [.
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Daradiction
AUGUST 24, 2010
My TEDxSB talk on Inspired Environments. After watching this video I got inspired to get a tan, hit the gym, and cut down my sugar intake by 80%. What a positive difference this has made in my energy levels and well being. Click here to view the embedded video.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 11, 2010
This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Are we are evolving our contract with society through our increasing interactions with digital platforms, and in particular, through what we've come to call the web? I believe the answer is yes. I'm fascinated with how our society's new norms and mores are developing - as well as the architectural patterns which emerge as we build what, at first blush, feels like a rather chaotic jumble of companies, platforms, services, devices and behaviors.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 12, 2010
Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company. Their job: market research, essentially. They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years. They were responsible for helping the Fortune 50 company navigate an increasingly complicated world.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 17, 2010
Dear Apple: We miss you. Once upon a time, back before you got real popular , you used to take part in the public square. You may have been less forthcoming than most, but at least your employees would speak at industry events, have unscripted conversations with journalists, and engage in the world a bit here and there. But over the past few years, things seem to have changed.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
( image ) Today I landed from a trip to the world of the non-tech obsessed (PA and OH) to find my newsfeed was full of speculation that Google MUST buy Twitter , or be damned to obscurity in a race its already losing to Facebook. Not so fast. Here's my simple reasoning for why Google won't buy Twitter: Twitter won't sell. Those who decide whether Twitter goes to Google pretty much come down to a handful of folks: Founders Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone, with COO Dick Costolo and Twitt
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 25, 2010
The United States Department of State (often referred to as the State Department), is responsible for the international relations of the United States and equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries. The Department was created in 1789 and was the first executive department established. Currently lead by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the department is [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 9, 2010
I' ve written extensively about iAds here and here , and one question I raised has to do with Apple's policies with regard to third party data and ad networks, in particular AdMob. As All Things Digital notes today , Apple this week "clarified" its policy with regard to third party networks, and it's hard to read it as anything other than a direct declaration of war with Google.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 8, 2010
I'm sure you've noticed, but there's a major battle underway for the hearts and minds of what we, in this industry, broadly call "developers." Often the term is used quite strictly, to mean actual coders who build actual software-driven applications, services, or websites. Other times the term is more loosely applied, meaning "companies that build stuff" or "partners of platform X or service Y.".
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2010
Today's news that the iPad sold 2 million units in its first two months - coming as it does right before Steve Jobs takes the stage at his only public conference appearance in years outside carefully scripted Apple launch events - led me to reflect on my prediction , in January of this year, that the "iPad would disappoint" (that'd be #5, scroll down).
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Eighteen months ago I was tracking its inflection point in usage (holy shit, look how it's growing! Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!), then its inflection in business model (hey, it doesn't have one ! Wait, yes it does, but can it scale ?!
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Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 10, 2010
If you follow the soccer world you’ll probably be aware of the high noon around the storied Liverpool Football Club, seventh in the The Deloitte Football Money League (a ranking of football clubs by revenue) whose current owners, messrs Hicks & Gillett, are currently two of the most hated people in England. Hicks and Gillett purchased [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 10, 2010
( image ) I just reviewed this presentation from Paul Adams , research lead for social at Google (embedded below). He works on Buzz and YouTube, and presumably, whatever is next from Google, including the rumored "Google Me.". His presentation is good, and worthy of your time if you are interested in the impact of social media on culture and business.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 2, 2010
I 'm usually the last guy to know, and the first to admit it, but is RSS really dead? I keep seeing posts claiming Twitter and Facebook have essentially replaced RSS as the way folks filter their news these days, but I for one am still addicted to my RSS client (it's Shrook , for anyone who still cares). Perhaps RSS isn't dead, but instead it's professionalizing.
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 3, 2010
When you work in a large company, there’s often an awareness that your email is accessible to your employer so that communication method tends to be used very conservatively for business communication. This is based on past experiences, and now that email is a pretty mature medium these days most of literate society understands the [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 1, 2010
and I mean that. Watching Jobs work his way through nearly 90 minutes of interview and audience questions , I really felt, for the first time, a sense of how strongly the guy feels for his work and his products. Then again, I found myself angry, several times. Angry when he championed the press as crucial to democracy, and implied the iPad would save our country from "descending into a nation of bloggers" (my view: we started as a nation of bloggers - pamphleteers like Thomas Paine).
Collaboration 2.0
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Whether you are job hunting or working, the challenges of personal control of your online personality at work, societally and socially have never been more complex. A hundred years ago we had virtually no data associated with us beyond possibly owning a passport, a few pieces of legal paperwork and maybe some national security files about us we [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
This third conversation with Mark Zuckerberg was, to my mind, the best so far, and YouTube seems to agree, as it's got more plays than nearly any other save Eric Schmidt (who was featured by YouTube on the homepage). See if you agree.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 24, 2010
If you’re an Enterprise 2.0 entrepreneur, you’ve got until August 30 to Twitter pitch #e2conf-lp Paige Finkelman of the US Enterprise 2.0 Conference your ‘Launch Pad’ contest entry for consideration by the jury (which includes me), and broader audience votes. The contest, to be held at the West Coast US edition of the show in November, [.
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Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 28, 2010
My new MacBook Air has arrived, shipped from Shanghai on October 23rd after I ordered it post ‘Apple Special Event‘ and arriving in San Francisco on the 27th. First impressions: as light as an empty ringbinder and impressively fast. You can see the 11 second boot time in the short video above, where it sits next [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Yesterday's post on Google having an algorithmic "opinion" about which reviews were negative or positive sparked a thoughtful response from Matt Cutts, Google's point person on search quality, and for me raised a larger question about Google's past, present, and future. In his initial comment (which is *his* opinion, not Google's, I am sure), Cutts remarked: ".the "opinion" in that sentence refers to the fact our web search results are protected speech in the First Amendment sense.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 5, 2010
Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a one-off reference in an earlier post - but not much earlier, as the "DBoI" post, as I call it, was just the sixty-third post of my then-early blogging career.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
I’ve just been reading reactions to last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference, which includes the endless sector name parlor game, and discussions around whether the market space is on Bambi legs, maturing …or as dead as John Cleese’s parrot. It’s all of those things and more depending on where you’re sitting, what you’ve experienced and what [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 14, 2010
I've written before about my relationship with Foursquare , and I'm sure I will again. I've tweeted my complaint that the "friend" mechanism is poorly instrumented (in various ways), and I should note that this is certainly not just a Foursquare problem (more on "Friendstrimentation" shortly). But today I wanted to build on my earlier post, " My Location Is a Box of Cereal ," and Think Out Loud a bit about what I'd really like to do on Foursquare: I'd like to check into a state of mind.
Collaboration 2.0
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
I expect more than a few CIO’s have reached for the Pepto Bismol after hearing the news about WikiLeaks releasing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables on the public internet, given how similar the situation is to their responsibilities for protecting data and information. Diplomatic embassy ‘cables’Â containing confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 7, 2010
There are many, many signals in the Database of Intentions, as my readers have pointed out, but the one I feel compelled to add to the chart I created Friday is the Commerce signal. This signal emerged before search, really, and has remained a constant, though honestly it has yet to become a signal that others can truly leverage into an open ecosystem (unlike the signal of search, or status update, or the social graph).
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