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
Brand marketers don't believe that ad-tech companies view brands as true partners. Ad-tech companies think brand marketers are paying attention to the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Step one of Street View was to get the pictures in place - in a few short years, we've gotten used to… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation. — 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
