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John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Yahoo! and Tumblr: It's About Display, Streams & Native at Scale   —  The world is atwitter about Tumblr's big exit to Yahoo!, and from what I can tell it seems this one is going to really happen (ATD is covering it well).  There are plenty of smart and appropriate takes on why this move makes sense …
May 20, 2013, 1:20 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company   —  The post Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.  —  Last year I predicted that Twitter would become a media company.  However, I focused mainly on the new “Discover” functionality, and I probably should have gone a lot further.
Jan 22, 2013, 7:30 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search   —  By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere and into the mainstream press: Facebook is doing Search!  Well, not so fast.  Facebook is not doing search, at least not search Google-style.  However, the world's largest social network …
Jan 16, 2013, 7:30 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?   —  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.
Sep 14, 2012, 1:30 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
On Thneeds and the “Death of Display”   —  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).
May 8, 2012, 1:55 AMIn context
Jbat / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Does the Pebble Cause a Ripple In Apple's Waters?   —  Ever since the Pebble watch became an cause célèbre in tech circles for its kickass Kickstarter moves (it's raised almost $7mm dollars and counting), something's been nagging me about the company and its product.
May 1, 2012, 10:30 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy”   —  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.
Feb 17, 2012, 4:25 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
It's Not Whether Google's Threatened.  It's Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?   —  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 …
Feb 4, 2012, 9:25 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Google+ Spreads to AdSense, Will It Spread to the Whole Web?   —  Seen in the wild (well, OK, on this very site):  —  The “Recommend this on Google” hover box at the bottom is new, I've never seen it before (then again, my ads are usually from FM).  It's what we in the biz call a …
Jan 26, 2012, 8:40 AMIn context
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Facebook Coalition To Google: Don't Be Evil, Focus On The User   —  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).
Jan 23, 2012, 9:50 AMIn context

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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line  —  Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).