Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Sep 02
50% Off All O’Reilly Ebooks Through Sept 9, 2014
Want to buy “Migrating Applications to IPv6” at 50% off? (in ebook form) Or any of 8,000 other ebooks and videos?
The folks at O’Reilly are having a “Back to (Tech) School Sale” that is in effect until 5:00pm U.S. Pacific Daylight Time on September 9, 2014. All you need to do is use the discount code “B2S4″ when you are checking out.
I would STRONGLY encourage you to buy my book directly through O’Reilly when you can because you get:
- DRM-free – you can put it on as many devices as you want, and it’s yours.
- As many formats as you want – EPUB, Mobi, PDF, whatever…
- Notification of (free) updates – whenever I post updates to the book, you will be notified.
It’s definitely worth it… I’m buying my tech ebooks directly from O’Reilly whenever I can now, simply because of these three points!
Thank you for considering the purchase of this book – and please do let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback to help make it better. The entire point of the book was to help application developers be able to make their application work over IPv6… so I want to hear from you about how this book can help!
Sep 01
FIR #771 – 9/1/14 – For Immediate Release
Shel's solo today; Quick News: Google ends Authorship, LinkedIn pages as company websites, Ditto scans for brands in shared photos, organic search beats social media for driving traffic, Facebook lets user search old posts, ALSA tries to trademark Ice Bucket Challenge; Ragan promo; News That Fits: US congressman slams employee communication effort, there's a growing demand for communication skills, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, Dan York's Tech Report, listener comments, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, Igloo Software promo, social media and the spiral of silence; music from Trigger Hippy; and more.
Aug 28
Watch LIVE Now! AfPIF Lightning Talks On IXP Toolkit, Deploy360, More
Right NOW in Dakar, Senegal, the last session of the African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) 2014 is happening. As we wrote previously, our Chris Grundemann is there – and he will actually be speaking during this “Lightning Talk” session about what we are doing here with Deploy360 in general and in particular with our Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) efforts. You can watch live at:
http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/AfPIF2014Day3
It will also be archived for later viewing.
Right now our Internet Society colleague Jane Coffin is talking about the IXP Toolkit that has been developed to help with the creation of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) (see our IXP page for our resources to help).
The list of speakers will be:
- IXP Toolkit (Jane Coffin, ISOC)
- IPv6 Webinars (Kevin Chege, ISOC)
- Peering in Kenya (Barry Macharia, KIXP)
- The successful implementation of an IXP and its evolution (Adelard Kenese, Burundix)
- DO Base (Chris Grunderman, ISOC)
- Business Intelligence Application (Elaud Kutiwa)
Each is to do a short 5-10 minute presentation.
If you want to see more, you can watch live RIGHT NOW! :-)
Aug 26
African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) Streaming Live This Week From Dakar, Senegal (Featured Blog)
The 5th African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) gets underway today, August 26, 2014, in Dakar, Senegal, with a packed agenda full of sessions focused on the future of peering and interconnection in Africa. There are sessions targeted at Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), infrastructure providers, content creators and policy makers and regulators. The event goes through Thursday, August 28, 2014. More...
Aug 25
TDYR #170 – SoundCloud Launches Ads With “On SoundCloud” Partner Platform
TDYR #170 - SoundCloud Launches Ads With "On SoundCloud" Partner Platform by Dan York
Aug 25
MPAA: Need To Move To IPv6 For Improved Video Viewing Experience
Want an improved video streaming experience? Want faster delivery of higher resolution HD and 4K videos? Move to using IPv6! That’s essentially the message from Alex Deacon of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a recent blog post, “Delivering An Enhanced Video Experience With IPv6“. He begins:
As the popularity of video streaming services continues to grow across the globe so do the requirements for efficient and high-speed network infrastructure used to deliver them. While much work is happening in this regard, one area of focus is the global deployment of IPv6 (Internet Protocol v6).
He then explores a number of the critical aspects of network infrastructure that are solved by the move to IPv6 including potentially removing the added latency that will come with deployment of Large-Scale NAT(LSN) / Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN). He also mentions the potential for faster routing and improved multicasting, both of which can make the delivery of video faster. His key quote to me is this (my emphasis added to the latter part):
The continued deployment and use of IPv6, and the many network efficiencies it brings, is key to the continued ability for our industry to deliver high quality, high speed and high definition content to users. This will minimize video start-up wait times, reduce video buffering and enable the delivery of HD and 4K content.
As someone who consumes video content primarily through video streaming services, I very much want to have faster start-up times and reduced video buffering. It is great to see an organization such as the MPAA promoting this as a benefit of the move to IPv6.
The article is definitely worth a read … and if you are a provider of video streaming services, we would encourage you to visit our “IPv6 for Content Providers” page to learn more about how you can get started!
P.S. And if you are not a provider of video streaming services, you may want to visit our “Start Here” page to find resources to help you get started with IPv6.
The post MPAA: Need To Move To IPv6 For Improved Video Viewing Experience appeared first on Internet Society.
Aug 25
MPAA: Need To Move To IPv6 For Improved Video Viewing Experience
Want an improved video streaming experience? Want faster delivery of higher resolution HD and 4K videos? Move to using IPv6! That’s essentially the message from Alex Deacon of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a recent blog post, “Delivering An Enhanced Video Experience With IPv6“. He begins:
As the popularity of video streaming services continues to grow across the globe so do the requirements for efficient and high-speed network infrastructure used to deliver them. While much work is happening in this regard, one area of focus is the global deployment of IPv6 (Internet Protocol v6).
He then explores a number of the critical aspects of network infrastructure that are solved by the move to IPv6 including potentially removing the added latency that will come with deployment of Large-Scale NAT(LSN) / Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN). He also mentions the potential for faster routing and improved multicasting, both of which can make the delivery of video faster. His key quote to me is this (my emphasis added to the latter part):
The continued deployment and use of IPv6, and the many network efficiencies it brings, is key to the continued ability for our industry to deliver high quality, high speed and high definition content to users. This will minimize video start-up wait times, reduce video buffering and enable the delivery of HD and 4K content.
As someone who consumes video content primarily through video streaming services, I very much want to have faster start-up times and reduced video buffering. It is great to see an organization such as the MPAA promoting this as a benefit of the move to IPv6.
The article is definitely worth a read … and if you are a provider of video streaming services, we would encourage you to visit our “IPv6 for Content Providers” page to learn more about how you can get started!
P.S. And if you are not a provider of video streaming services, you may want to visit our “Start Here” page to find resources to help you get started with IPv6.
Aug 25
FIR #770 – 8/25/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: a passport app, browser extension exposes natve ads, stats on the most popular apps, podcast suit settled; Ragan promo; News That Fits: does a PR firm need to reflect community demographics?, Dan York's Tech Report, Sky News' digital platform promotes dialog ahead of 2015 election, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Amtrak's content marketing strategy, the past week on the FIR podcast network, Igloo Software promo, FT introduces Twitter aggregator FT Antenna; music from Winter Harvest; and more.
Aug 18
FIR #769 – 8/18/14 – For Immediate Release
Crisis interview coming this week, Linked Conversations host Chuck Hester appeared on The Social Hour, IABC members take note of cyber-attack on association's servers; Quick News: 10 years of podcasting, Snapchat more popular than Twitter in U.S. 18-34 demographic, Facebook post embeds up 50% since launch of Facebook Newswire, robots can do your jobs, Ragan promo; News that Fits: exploiting Robin Williams tragedy, introducing Dark Social, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, UK news audience shifting to mobile, Igloo software promo, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, the Ice Bucket Challenge; music from Pretty Visitors; and more.
