Advertising and content have always been bound together - in print, on television, and on the web. Sure, you can skip the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In conversation marketing, you're providing a service, a continuing dialogue whose course through the Web is unknown. The more value it adds… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Facebook's data trove is enviable, and its moves into nearly every aspect of our lives - from payment to media, will create… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators… — John Battelle Copy Share
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle Copy Share
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social… — John Battelle Copy Share
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for… — John Battelle Copy Share
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed… — John Battelle Copy Share
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision… — John Battelle Copy Share
There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather… — John Battelle Copy Share
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery,… — John Battelle Copy Share
The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens,… — John Battelle Copy Share
Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea.… — John Battelle Copy Share
'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites are the… — John Battelle Copy Share
I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind… — John Battelle Copy Share
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… — John Battelle Copy Share
As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of… — John Battelle Copy Share
