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
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… — 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
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
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and… — 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
Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or… — 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
I found the iPad to be too large and heavy to use comfortably in casual situations (like reading in bed, for example),… — 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
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
Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single… — 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
