I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom,… — 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
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a… — 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… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines… — 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
The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Teenagers aren't loyal to much of anything - especially Internet stuff. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do… — 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
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
Google Now is one of those products that to many users doesn't seem like a product at all. It is instead the… — 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
