Facebook continues to demonstrate their commitment to making sure that people can access Facebook from whatever networks they may be on – and particularly new IPv6-based networks. Not only is Facebook moving to an IPv6-only internal network, but now comes word that their iOS mobile applications, both the regular Facebook app and also the Facebook Read more…
Dec 15
Moving My Various Web Sites To Responsive Design To Be Mobile-Friendly
Today I made on change on this "DanYork.com" site to move it to a new theme that uses "responsive design" so that it will look good on a mobile device as well on a large screen. I’ve been wanting to do this for quite some time because any of a zillion reports out there will tell you that an increasing majority of users are viewing websites on their mobile devices. I can just see that in my own behavior where I use my iPhone or iPad for viewing so many sites. The challenge I have is that this site, and…
Dec 15
FIR #786 – 12/15/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: Two airlines go Apple, employees increase your reach, Apple recruits luxury experts for watch debut, Facebook search implications for brands; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Microcopy is a new frontier for communicators, Dan York’s Tech Report…
Dec 15
Indonesia And Vanuatu Sign .ID and .VU With DNSSEC
We were very pleased to learn this morning that both Indonesia’s .ID and Vanuatu’s .VU country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) had DS records uploaded to the root zone of DNS over the weekend. What this means is that they have both entered the fourth of five deployment stages that we track as part of the DNSSEC Read more…
Dec 15
Two Weeks In… How Is A Blog Post A Day Doing? #Finish2014Strong
So, two weeks after saying I would write at least one blog post a day (and talking about that) for all of December 2014, how am I doing? Well… so far so good. I posted at least once on the…
Dec 15
TDYR 197 – Halfway Through December, How Is #Finish2014Strong Doing?
Back on December 1 in episode 187 I said my goal was to write at least one blog post a day for every day in December 2014. Two weeks in… how am I doing?
My list of posts in December so far:
http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/12/two-weeks-i…
Dec 14
TDYR 196 – “Surprise Me, Santa”, A Fascinating Side Effect Of Raising A Child Without Commercial TV
At a “Breakfast with Santa” yesterday, Santa asked our 5-year-old daughter about what she wanted for Christmas…
Dec 14
Video: The Keene Interfaith Community Breakfasts
One of the great changes in my life over the past year has been helping out at the community breakfasts for the homeless that happen now each winter weekday morning at our church in Keene, NH. While they are held in our church building, the teams of volunteers who staff the breakfasts also come from several other churches in our community. (In fact, we’re looking for one more church or other community group to step forward and help on the one remaining day that needs coverage.) It’s been quite an eye-opening experience for my wife and I, both in terms…
Dec 13
Verizon Launches Voice Cypher Secure VoIP Mobile App… With A Government Backdoor
Verizon Wireless this week did something that initially seemed quite impressive – they launched “Voice Cypher”, an app available for iOS, Android and Blackberry that promises secure end-to-end encryption. It uses VoIP and is an “over-the-top” (OTT) app that works on any carrier. If you read the marketing material on their web site, it all sounds […]
Dec 13
TDYR 195 – Verizon’s ‘Secure’ Voice Cypher App… With A Government Backdoor
Verizon came out with a new “Voice Cypher” OTT app for iOS, Android and Blackberry which sounds like a very cool way to have secure voice communication across mobile networks… until you realize that it has a government backdoor already built in. :-(…
