John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Jonathan Zittrain has an important op ed up on Harvard’s site , and I hope all of you will go read it. It sums up many of the points that I hit as I write here at Searchblog, and that will enliven my next book What We Hath Wrought. Key points: Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 15, 2011
On the eve of the main Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference, it’s worth taking a look at the state of the enterprise. Despite being up to my eyeballs in collaboration strategy behind the firewall inside large companies this year I strive to stay objective and to avoid failing to see the wood for the trees. It’s all [.
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Daradiction
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Hello! I moved within Santa Monica recently to a great place with a better layout for working at home and having people over. I’ve had a GREAT roommate for awhile, but he recently got engaged and they are getting married. It’s a 2BR / 2BA place, remodeled with hardwood floors and a great kitchen. Their share of the rent would be around $1100 but could be less/more on if they want the place furnished, office den, parking spot, etc.
Robert's Db2
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Over the past 15 years or so, I have written magazine articles, and presented, and blogged on the topic of DB2 for z/OS buffer pools and their impact on application performance (two of my more recent blog entries in this category were posted in September and October of last year). Often, the message boils down to this: bigger buffer pool configuration = good.
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JUNE 25, 2011
I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a position with a consulting firm near Washington, D.C., as a SharePoint Architect. I will be interfacing directly with a federal government agency, helping them create a new robust SharePoint 2010 environment and migrating content from thousands of SharePoint 2007/2003 sites to this new environment. I'm very excited!
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JUNE 3, 2011
As I wrote last month , I'm working with a team of folks to redesign the Web 2 Points of Control map along the lines of this year's theme: " The Data Frame." In the past few weeks I've been talking to scores of interesting people, including CEOs of data-driven start ups (TrialPay and Corda, for example), academics in the public dataspace, policy folks, and VCs.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 24, 2011
In the past 12 hours, about ten friends (and counting) have sent me a copy of this ad on Facebook for a company called "AppSumo." I have nearly 5000 "friends" on Facebook, a problem I've written about in the past , but seeing this ad threw me. Apparently, this is *not* part of Facebook's social ads, where people can buy ads targeting friends of particular people on third party sites - after all, this appears on Facebook.com.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 18, 2011
If there was a theme to Day One at Web 2 Summit , it was this: We have to start taking control of our own identity and data. And this is not just because we might be worried about how the government or large platforms might use our data (though both issues certainly came up in talks with Chris Poole, Senator Ron Wyden, Genevieve Bell, and Sean Parker, among others).
Collaboration 2.0
JULY 4, 2011
Google’s pivot from search to social technologies occurred last week and my early impressions of their new service Google+ are very positive, particularly around their efforts on allowing you to group your contacts. The giant global advertising company have many years experience analyzing your search and email history, and often display eerily accurate recommendations contextual [.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 28, 2011
As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. I’ve got a working hypothesis that we are in the process of transitioning very important portions of our “public lives” to private corporations, and that this transfer is related to our adoption of digital technologies and platforms.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 5, 2011
Note: I wrote this post without contacting anyone at Twitter. I do know a lot of folks there, and as regular readers know, have a lot of respect for them and the company. But I wanted to write this as a "Thinking Out Loud" post, rather than a reported article. There's a big difference - in this piece, I am positing an idea. It's entirely possible my lack of reporting will make me look like an uninformed boob.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 13, 2011
Thanks to monster private financings from Groupon and Facebook, as well as the promise of major IPOs from Demand, LinkedIn, Zynga and others, the predictable "watch out, here we go again" buzz is rising up in the press. This article from Ad Age, subtitled "With Billion-Dollar Dot-com Valuations Back in a Big Way, It's Time for Alarm Bells to Start Ringing," is typical of the bunch.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 1, 2011
( image ) Last night I got to throw a party, and from time to time, that's a pretty fun thing to do. To help us think through the program and theme of the Web 2 Summit this Fall, we invited a small group of influential folks in the Bay area to a restaurant in San Francisco, fed them drinks and snacks, and invited their input. (Here are some pics if you want to see the crowd.).
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
In the vein of documenting how the world most likely will look one generate hence, my researcher and I have been taking a look at a number of key global drivers. One, of course, is how we govern ourselves (you can see posts on that topic here and here ). Another is global population. Working with data from the US Census Bureau and International Data Base , we’ve also overlayed some information from Internet World Stats , though for now, the fit is imperfect.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 21, 2011
One of my first "big books" out of college was James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science and it still resonates with me, though it's been so long I think I'm due for a re-read. In any case, the next book up in my ongoing self-education is Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. It's long. It's dense. It's good, so far. In fact, there's already a passage, a quote from Plato, that has struck me as germane to the ongoing threads I attempt to weave here on this site (even if all I'm
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 27, 2011
I recently joined Facebook. Have you heard of it? I know, I know, that sounds crazy, given that I’m “an Internet guy.” If you search for me on Google, say “ John Battelle Facebook ,” you see that I am already there , and that I have nearly 5000 “friends.” (The interplay between Google search and Facebook is worthy of an entire treatise, I’ll leave that for later).
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Earlier this week I participated in Google's partner conference , entitled Zeitgeist after the company's annual summary of trending topics. Deep readers of this site know I have a particular affection for the original Zeitgeist, first published in 2001. When I stumbled across that link, I realized I had to write The Search. The conference reminds me of TED , full of presentations and interviews meant to inspire and challenge the audience's thinking.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 23, 2011
I read with interest about Color , a new social photo app that was much in the news today. The main angle of coverage was the size of the pre-revenue company's funding - $41 million from Sequoia and Bain. Hell, the company isn't just pre-revenue, it's pre-product.at least for now. Tomorrow the actual product launches. If it works as advertised, it may well be the first truly execution of augmented reality that truly scales.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 18, 2011
As I noted earlier in the week , I had the opportunity to speak at a GM conference today. I was asked to peer into the future of the "app world," and deliver any divinations I might discover. I like a challenge like this, as it forces me to weave any number of slender threads of my current thinking into a more robust and compact narrative. Below is an updated version of a slide I presented today.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 3, 2011
In the eighth version of my annual predictions, I'll try to stay focused and clear, the better to score myself a year from now. And while I used the past two weeks of relatively fallow holiday time as a sort of marination period, the truth is I pretty much just sat down and banged these predictions out in one go, just as I have the past seven years.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 12, 2011
The Web is dead again, at least, according to a widely covered speech by Forrester Research’s George Colony. Speaking at Le Web last week, Colony claimed that the HTML web is a poorly architected half step in the next, obvious progression of platforms: a hybrid between what we’ve come to know as the Web and the crippled chicletized place I’ve been calling AppWorld.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Yesterday I met with Christopher Ahlberg , the PhD co-founder of Recorded Future , a company I noted in these pages back in mid-2010. Ahlberg is one of those rare birds you just know is making stuff that matters – a scientist, an entrepreneur, a tinkerer, and an enthusiast all wrapped into one. He ran me through Recorded Future’s technology and business model, and I found it impressive.
Collaboration 2.0
JANUARY 15, 2011
 A common criticism of modern ’social’ interactions online is that they are just that: superficial socializing to idle away the time. It’s a view often held by people with little or no experience of actually interacting through the modern mediums which are now an integral part of mainstream broadcast media. Twitter has quickly taken center stage in [.
John Battelle's Searchblog
AUGUST 29, 2011
The subject of "owning your own domain" has been covered to death in our industry, with excellent posts from Anil Dash , and others explaining the importance of having your own place on the web. I've also weighed in on the importance of " The Independent Web ," where creators have control, as opposed to the Dependent Web, where platforms ultimately control how your words, data, and expression are leveraged.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 4, 2011
is the core reason it makes sense for Facebook to be public: Accountability to its customers. The rest of this debate is simply financial folks arguing amongst themselves. Facebook is the greatest repository of data about people's intentions, relationships, and utterances that ever has been created. Period. And a company that owns that much private data should be accountable to the public.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
I'm beta testing a new service called Memolane , which collects the breadcrumbs we drop around the web (from Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS, etc) and visualizes them as a timeline. It's not fair for me to review the service at this point - I'll save that for later. Rather, I'm interested in what it augurs: The rise of metaservices. The problem/opportunity addressed by metaservices has been worked to death by folks far smarter than I - in particular by well-intentioned developers look
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 7, 2011
Lately in talks and private conversations, I've been thinking out loud about the role of Facebook in our lives. It's an extraordinary service (and company), and deserves its extraordinary valuation. But its approach to our "social graph" is limiting, as I and others have pointed out quite a bit. While in Mexico I had the chance to sit with a couple of entrepreneurs who have an idea I feel is deeply *right* about social networking, and it couldn't be further from how Facebook works today.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 7, 2011
As I work on the book, I’ve come to use a shorthand for five companies that I’ve determined are critical drivers of what kind of society we’ll be living in one generation from now. At the moment I’m focused on just Internet companies, though I also plan on looking at other categories, such as energy, food, and health. My terminology has evolved in the past week from “the Five Horsemen” to simply “The Big Five.” I’ve got a few reasons for this
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