April 9, 2012 archive

Apr 09

Deploy360 Team at North American IPv6 Summit in Denver This Week

If you are attending the North American IPv6 Summit in Denver, Colorado, from April 9-11, Deploy360′s Richard Jimmerson will be out there participating in a panel discussion around World IPv6 Launch.  He’s looking forward to engaging in conversations with people about deploying IPv6 and meeting up with people from around North America who are making IPv6 usage a reality. If you would like to contact Richard to meet with him at the event, please email jimmerson@isoc.org.

For more information about the North American IPv6 Summit or to register, please visit:

http://www.rmv6tf.org/IPv6Summit.htm

 

Apr 09

Wow – Facebook Acquires Instagram!

InstagramWow... here's one that I don't think most (any?) of us saw coming - Facebook has acquired photo-sharing service Instagram!

It's interesting to note Mark Zuckerberg's focus on the continued separate growth of Instagram:

That's why we're committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.

We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.

Time will tell how that will work out, but it will be intriguing to see what the acquisition enables on both sides. It will also be interesting to see the reaction of the Instagram user community...

Kara Swisher at AllThingsD and Emily Price at Mashable are both reporting that the acquisition price was $1 billion USD in cash and shares.

What do you think? Smart move for Facebook? Good or not so good for Instagram users?

UPDATE #1 - TechCrunch is reporting that Instagram received a $50 million investment with a $500 million valuation just last week. And the best response I've seen has to be this one by a woman named Tonya Hall on Facebook:

Remember this day. 551-day-old Instagram is worth $1 billion. 116-year-old New York Times Co. $967 million.

Crazy times, indeed!

UPDATE #2 - Interesting view from Om Malik - "Here is why Facebook bought Instagram"

UPDATE #3 - Some good answers to the Quora question about the Instagram acquisition

P.S. In full disclosure, I do have an Instagram account (danyork) but I have so far only ever posted one photo to it, preferring instead to still use Flickr, although that may change.

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Apr 09

Ram Mohan on DNSSEC and ICANN’s Costa Rica Meeting

Given that I was one of the presenters at the recent DNSSEC workshop at ICANN 43 in Costa Rica, I was very pleased to see the Circle ID article on Friday, “Slowly Cracking the DNSSEC Code at ICANN 43” from Ram Mohan at Afilias. As he notes:

The half-day session held at ICANN 43 in Costa Rica last month was particularly interesting. What became clear is that the industry is quickly moving into the end-user adoption phase of global DNSSEC deployment.

That was certainly clear to me as well.  As Ram Mohan notes in his article, many of the participants in the event brought real case studies of where DNSSEC is being actually deployed and used in real situations.   It was a great event and I’m looking forward to pointing to more of the case studies and other information as they become available.