January 2014 archive

Jan 20

My Unexpected Comment On YouTube – Via The Google+ Integration

Today I received a personal reminder of the new strong linkage between Google+ and YouTube.  Given that today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here in the USA, I posted a link to a YouTube video of Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech to my Google+ account.  

I had forgotten, though, that... 

Every post on Google+ about a YouTube link is DISPLAYED ON YOUTUBE as a comment!

So a little while later when I went to get the link again to pass along to someone else, I refreshed the page in my browser and there was my smiling face staring back at me...

Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Speech August 28 1963 YouTube 6

Now, in this particular case, I don't particularly mind. I just had forgotten that this integration was already in place between Google+ and YouTube. Google rolled it out in November and almost immediately came under fire for increasing spam comments on YouTube (which they are now trying to address through new tools for YouTube creators).

I need to remember this, too, because when posting a YouTube link to Google+ I may be thinking about it in the context of my Google+ page and the content I post there... but I have to remember that my text will also be seen by people viewing the video on YouTube and without the context of having perhaps regularly seen my Google+ content.

Similarly, I need to remember that ANY sharing on Google+ will wind up on YouTube. For instance, on Facebook I have on occasion re-shared a video that I thought friends might be interested in... but that I might not necessarily want to have my name attached to. It might just be a silly video that I found funny.

With this G+ integration, however, any time I re-share a video in this manner on Google+ my name and my comment are going to appear on the YouTube page for that video. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

I will say it will make me be much more careful about what kind of YouTube links I share on Google+.

How about you? What do you think about this integration between Google+ and YouTube?

P.S. And going back to the original video link that started this all, if you haven't watched Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech, it truly IS a powerful speech!

UPDATE: Here's an issue with the integration - my Google+ comment is displayed over on YouTube, but my name "Dan York" on YouTube links over to my YouTube account instead of my Google+ account. While that makes sense: 1) I don't use that YouTube account; and 2) I left the comment in the context of Google+ and now people have no way to see that. So it's a kind of a one-way integration...

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Jan 20

FIR #739 – 1/20/14 – For Immediate Release

Shel joins Mark Schaefer on Six Pixels podcast; Laura Thomas interview is up; new episodes of Higher Education, FIR On Strategy, and Linked Conversations; two new podcasts joining FIR Podcast Network; Quick News: FDA offers social media guidance to pharmas, fishmonger pursues debt via social media, customers do more than ignore irrelevant email; Ragan promo; News That Fits: First look at 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, Dan York's Tech Report, is earned media becoming hacked media?, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, native advertising opposition gets louder as innovation improves, Michael Netzley's Asia Report; how to comment; music from Liquid; and more.

Jan 19

TDYR #074 – NFL Playoffs: Fox Sports FAILed The Internet While CBS Sports Rocked!

Trying to watch the NFL Playoffs tonight over the Internet, one network (CBS Sports) rocked and let "cord-cutters" watch the game (with advertising) while the other network (Fox Sports) was still stuck in the legacy business model where they require you to login with your "TV provider", which, of course, I don't have as a "cord-cutter"...

Jan 19

Video/Slides: Case Study – Deploying IPv6 In 10 Days at 24Media (RIPE67)

Here’s a fun story… Tore Anderson decided that since he was going to RIPE 67 and it was sort of a “party” of network engineers, he ought to bring a gift – so he decided to make 24Media’s websites available over IPv6.  Only problem was that RIPE67 was only 10 days away!  So he had to get going rather quickly….  his slides are online and the video of his presentation is online:

ripe67-tore-anderson

Very cool to see!

How about you?  Can you make your websites available over IPv6?  Check our IPv6 resources for information that can help you!

Jan 18

TDYR #073 – The Curious Intersection Of Our Time In Ottawa And Tonight’s Continental Cup Of Curling

While watching the live stream of the Continental Cup of Curling tonight, I was pleasantly surprised to learn of a connection between the women's team we were watching and the city of Ottawa and the man who first taught me how to play the sport of curling...

Jan 18

Weekend Project: Set Up An IPv6 Tunnel

World IPv6 Launch LogoDon’t have IPv6 connectivity to your home or office network? Have you asked your ISP about getting IPv6 and they can’t give you a timeframe?

Don’t despair! One way you can get IPv6 connectivity for your home office is to set up an “IPv6 tunnel” from your network out over your IPv4 Internet connection to an “IPv6 Tunnel Broker” service that will then connect you out to the rest of the IPv6-enabled Internet.

An IPv6 tunnel can work quite well and was in fact what I used for most of two years until my local ISP just recently provided native IPv6 connectivity.  The good news, too, is that there are IPv6 tunnel broker services that are available to you for free, operated by companies and organizations that want to expand the use of IPv6.

Two of the most well-known tunnel broker services are:

The general process for both of them is:

  1. Sign up and register on their website.
  2. Login to their website.
  3. Create/request a tunnel.
  4. Configure your local network to connect to the tunnel.
  5. Start using IPv6!

Now, step #4 may or may not be a bit involved.  Some wireless home routers have a configuration tab somewhere for IPv6 where all you need to do is enter the tunnel information provided by the tunnel broker and away you go!   At one point I used an Apple TimeCapsule and was impressed at how easy it was to configure an IPv6 tunnel.  There are also some home server/gateway software distributions that also make setting up an IPv6 tunnel easy to do.

To help with this, the SixXS team provides a software client called “AiCCU” and documents the process in “10 easy mini steps to IPv6“. IPv6 advocate Olle Johansson wrote up his experience setting up an IPv6 tunnel through SixXS for his training center.

For Tunnelbroker.net, Hurricane Electric provides configuration information for different operating systems once you login and create a tunnel.  They also have tunnelbroker user forums with a wealth of information and tutorials about how to connect from various kinds of systems.

Once you have your IPv6 tunnel connected, you should be able to go to a site like test-ipv6.com and see that you do indeed have IPv6 connectivity!  What’s fun then is to install the IPvfoo/IPvfox extension/add-on to either Chrome or Firefox and then as you browse around the web you’ll be able to see what sites you are getting to over your nice new IPv6 connection.

If you’d like more technical information about how IPv6 tunneling services work, you may want to read RFC 7059 that compares different types of IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel mechanisms.

The cool part of all of this is that you can get IPv6 connectivity while you are waiting for your ISP to join the movement to bring about IPv6 everywhere!

P.S. If any of you want to also write up tutorials of the steps you went through to set up an IPv6 tunnel on your particular hardware or operating system, we’d love to have some more step-by-step tutorials to reference.  Please just leave a comment to this post with a link to wherever you post your article.  (Or if you don’t have a site to post an article on, drop us a note and we may be able to help you out.)

Jan 17

Watch Live This Weekend – Some Of The Best Curling Teams In The World At Continental Cup 2014

Continental CupWe have an amazing opportunity this weekend (Jan 17-19) to watch some of the best curling teams in the world competing against each other in the “Continental Cup” in Las Vegas.  All of it will be streamed LIVE across the Internet at:

http://www.youtube.com/worldcurlingtv

The Continental Cup is a unique format that pits 6 US and Canadian teams in “Team North America” against 6 teams in “Team World” from Scotland, Sweden, Japan and Norway.  In contrast to most other curling events that are a series of regular team games, the Continental Cup has team games, singles games, mixed doubles games and ‘skins’ games.  The scoring is explained on the event web site.

The remaining games that will be live streamed are (all times US Eastern):

Friday 10 PM – Team
Saturday 12 PM – Mixed Doubles
Saturday 4:30 PM – Team
Saturday 9:30 PM – Team
Sunday 4 PM – Skins
Sunday 9 PM – Skins

According to the US Curling Association web site, NBC Sports Network will also televise two of the Saturday games… although they will be broadcast on Sunday.   

The World Curling TV stream on YouTube will be streaming live, of course, and will probably be the best place to see all the action.  It should be some outstanding curling so do check it out!

Jan 17

TDYR #072 – Phenomenal Curling Streaming Live From Las Vegas This Weekend

We have a chance to watch some *amazing* curling this weekend streaming live across the Internet as some of the best teams in the world compete in the "Continental Cup 2014" in Las Vegas. The live stream can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/worldcurlingtv More info can be found at: http://monadnockcurling.org/2014/01/17/watch-live-this-weekend-some-of-the-best-curling-teams-in-the-world-at-continental-cup-2014/ http://www.worldcurling.org/world-financial-group-continental-cup-2014 http://www.curling.ca/2014continentalcup-en http://www.curling.ca/2014continentalcup-en/how-does-the-scoring-work-for-the-continental-cup/

Jan 17

New IETF “openv6″ Mailing List For IPv6 Application Developers

IETF LogoDo we need an “open interface and a programmable platform to support various IPv6 applications? That is the question posed for a new “openv6″ IETF discussion mailing list announced yesterday. The openv6 list, which is open to anyone to subscribe to, has this description:

This list is to discuss a open interface and a programmable platform to support various IPv6 applications, which may include IPv6 transition technologies, SAVI (Source Address Validation and Traceback), security, data center and etc. This discussion will focus on the problem space, use case and possible protocol extensions. The following questions are listed to be solved via this discussion:

(1) What are the problems and use cases existing in various IPv6 applications,  e.g., multiple IPv6 transition technologies co-exist?

(2) How to enable the applications to program the equipment to tunnel IPv6 traffic across an IPv4 data plane?

(3) How this work can be done through a general interface, e.g., to incorporate  the transition policies, simplifying the different stages through the transition  and guaranteeing that current decisions do not imply a complicated legacy in
the future?

(4) How to make the end-to-end configuration of devices: concentrator/CGN, CPE and the provisioning system?

(5) How to extend the existing IETF protocols, e.g., netconf, to support this open interface?

The list is not for forming a new IETF working group (WG). It is at this point purely for discussing this topic. The mailing list archive seems to be empty at the moment (or the link is not correct), but given that the list was just announced yesterday the list owners may be waiting for people to join the list before kicking off discussion. In searching IETF archives I found this recent draft from October 2013, “Problem Statement for Openv6 Scheme,” that may be part of the discussion.  I expect we should see more information soon as the discussion begins.

Anyway, if you are an application developer looking to look at how you help your applications work over IPv6 this may be an interesting mailing list to join, if for no other reason than to monitor it and see what work is happening.

I’m looking forward to seeing the discussion begin!

Jan 16

TDYR #071 – A Very Cool Trick To Type Special Characters On A Mac Keyboard

I learned a very cool trick to type special characters while on a Mac... where before to type a "ü" I would press "Alt+u" to get an umlaut and then the "u" key, now I just use what I describe in this episode... VERY cool! (And presumably only for Macs - I don't know if there is a similar trick for Windows.)