October 2014 archive
Oct 06
FIR #776 – 10/06/14 – For Immediate Release
Oct 05
Reflections On Ello – October 5, 2014
First, as I wrote, we have to remember that Ello is not Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc., and we have to just go in with an open mind.
The Ello platform is very definitely still a "beta" with a long list of features that they want to add, but over the past bit there have been some changes of interest:
- The Ello team has now release "muting" and "blocking" so that you can control a bit more of the experience you have on Ello.
- Kevin Marks had some good commentary about how this issue is hard - and how it is also important to the IndieWeb and other activities.
- Cmd+Return on my Mac (Ctrl+Enter on a PC) has now become my favorite keystroke because it lets me rapidly submit comments or posts without using the mouse.
- You can press "f" and "n" to toggle between your "friends" and "noise" lists.
- There are several other quick keys that let you shift between different views.
- The mobile interface works well once you understand that you can swipe left and right to do more.
- Writing with markdown and emoji is fun!
I love the display of photos in Ello, but there's one bit of brokenness that does bother me:
- There are issues posting "portrait" photos from a smartphone, although there is a workaround to make them square first.
I asked the question of why should Ello have to have a mobile app and wondered about how Ello behaved different from other apps... and I learned a bit more about why (and what you can do)
Clay Shirky had two great posts about Ello being a conversational versus annotative medium:
He also had two other good articles and threads:- How he does NOT want a 'reshare' link and why Ello to him is more like LiveJournal and USENET
- How challenging it is to find comments you have left on Ello
Oh, and there's now a parody social network... Owdy! :-)
Please do join me on Ello if you are interested in the continuing experiments... and please feel free to share your own tips and insights!
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Oct 03
Join Me On VUC Today At Noon US EDT To Talk IPv6, IoT, WebRTC and more…
Today at 12 noon US Eastern (in about 3.5 hours), I'll be part of a panel on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) talking about IPv6, WebRTC, the Internet of Things (IoT) and much, much more... you should be able to watch it live at live.vuc.me or embedded here:
VUC host Randy Resnick had a scheduled guest be unable to attend and so he asked a group of us to come on for what he is calling a "VUC Vision" session. I will be on there, as will, I believe, Tim Panton and a number of others. I expect the discussion should range over good variety of topics. It should be a good time... you're welcome to join in the discussion.
It's probably best to also join the IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur. You also can visit the Google+ event page for the VUC session today where there may be additional links and info.
If you won't be at your computer, you can also call in via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
The session will of course be recorded so you can listen/watch later.
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- following me on Twitter;
- adding me to a circle on Google+;
- following me on Ello;
- following me on App.net;
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Oct 02
CEA Webinar Archive: Making Content Available On IPv6 and Ensuring the Optimal Customer Experience
How can you make your content available over IPv6 and ensure the optimal customer experience? That was the topic of a excellent recent webinar from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on September 16, 2014, featuring these panelists:
- John Jason Brzozowski, Comcast (and CEA IPv6 Working Group chair)
- Leslie Daigle, TCE
- Vint Cerf, Google
- Jason Fesler, Yahoo!
The session is now available for your listening and viewing at:
https://consumerelectronics.adobeconnect.com/_a89885078/p2d42e4ygya/
The abstract for the session is:
While some mainstream content providers have enabled their content to be available over both IPv4 and IPv6, a large population of the same continues to be available only over IPv4. Join this webinar to learn why making your content available over IPv6 is critical to the IPv6 transition and more importantly to ensure an optimal customer experience. As part of this webinar, manufacturers, service providers and retailers in the consumer electronics industry will learn why support for IPv6 is important as the steps required to ensure popular consumer electronics are enabled to support and actively using the same.
It was great to hear Leslie Daigle again (given that she used to be involved here) and she started out the session providing statistics about IPv6 and speaking about the impressive growth we’ve seen over the past few years.
Vint Cerf spoke next and first talked about Google’s strong commitment to IPv6 and then discussed what is happening with Nest thermometers (owned by Google) and the new “Thread” protocol being advanced by a group of companies as a method of enabling the “Internet of Things (IoT)”. Thread is based on IPv6 using the 6LoWPAN technology and provides a powerful way to interconnect devices and services. (I’ll note that earlier this week there was apparently a gathering at Google’s California campus where many people involved with Thread met and provided an update on the project.)
Jason Fesler then spoke about the business case for deploying IPv6 for content providers. His number one reason was that companies need to “ensure the best possible user experience for our customers.” He noted that it is not a matter so much of what IPv6 brings us, but rather what is the future of IPv4. He talked about the challenges of carrier-grade NAT (CGN) and how it limits the ability of a content provider to optimize content for an individual user. He also spoke of the dangers of CGN in potentially blocking an entire network due to a single bad actor. Jason then discussed how Yahoo! is preparing to make its web sites and content available to IPv6-only networks, as they do expect to see more of such networks in the years ahead.
After the presentations there was a lengthy Q&A session and more ongoing discussion.
This CEA Webinar was the second in a series of webinars about IPv6. The first was last month and focused on IPv6 and broadband. My colleague Phil Roberts wrote about that session (and participated in it) and provided the link to the archive of that session.
It’s great to see these sessions coming from the CEA and we look forward to future webinars!
If you want to get started making your content available over IPv6, please visit our Start Here page to find resources available to help you. In particular, the IPv6 information for website owners and content providers may be of great help.
