You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The largest issue with search is that we learned about it when the web was young, when the universe was 'complete' -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google+ was, to my mind, all about creating a first-party data connection between Google most important services - search, mail, YouTube, Android/Play,… — 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
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media. — 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 Image
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 Image
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
