Great post this week in the New York Times about a new curling club starting up in Brooklyn: “In the Borough of Beards, Lay Down Some Ice, and Out Come the Brooms“. It reports that they had over 100 people turn out for their November Open House and now are setting up more leagues. Two […]
Dec 12
Great Story About New Curling Club In Brooklyn, NY
Great post this week in the New York Times about a new curling club starting up in Brooklyn: “In the Borough of Beards, Lay Down Some Ice, and Out Come the Brooms“.
It reports that they had …
Dec 11
Opinion – A New iPhone App Aiming To Make Podcasting Easy For Everyone
How can podcast creation be made even easier on the iPhone? I recently stumbled upon a new iPhone app called simply "Opinion" that is aimed at making podcasting no longer just "a medium reserved for tech geeks and media corporations"…
Dec 11
DANE Interim Meeting on Dec 2 Focused on Email and S/MIME
For those of you interested in tracking the evolution of the DANE protocol to add a DNSSEC-secured layer of trust to TLS certificates, the DANE Working Group within the IETF recently held an “Interim Virtual Meeting” via conference call on December 2, 2014, where the focus was all around using DANE for securing email using Read more…
Dec 11
TDYR 194 – Trying Out Opinion, A New Podcasting App For IPhone
In this episode I tried out the new “Opinion” app for the iPhone that aims to make podcasting easier:
http://www.opinionpodcasting.com/
You can hear my thoughts in the episode…
Dec 10
The Directory Problem – The Challenge For Wire, Talko And Every Other "Skype-Killer" OTT App
As much as I am enjoying the new Wire app, there is a fundamental problem that Wire faces… as well as Talko, Firefox Hello and every other Over-The-Top (OTT) or WebRTC application that is seeking to become THE way that…
Dec 10
Finland Planning “National IPv6 Launch Day” On 9 June 2015
The folks in Finland are planning a “National IPv6 Launch Day” for 9 June 2015. Patterned after 2012’s World IPv6 Launch but targeted at service providers and content providers in Finland, they are seeking participants (and already have a number of both broadband service providers and content companies) at their site: https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ipv6now/index.html Given that Google’s IPv6 statistics Read more…
Dec 09
TDYR 193 – The Directory Problem: The Challenge for Wire, Talko and All Other Skype-Killers
To me the “directory problem” is the greatest challenge facing new communications apps such as Wire, Talko and many more…. how do you build up the directory of users so that the app is useful to people? People will only use a communications app IF t…
Dec 09
Catching Up With Mitel …
By way of a tweet I stumbled upon analyst Blair Pleasant’s UC Strategies post, "Change – The Only Thing That’s Constant", that showed me that while I’ve been off in the worlds of IPv6 and DNSSEC there has been a…
Dec 09
DNS Security Advisories Out Today For BIND, PowerDNS and Unbound – Time To Upgrade!
While this has nothing to do specifically with the topic of DNSSEC that we cover here on Deploy360, there is important news in the broader world of “DNS security”. The vendors of three of the major DNS recursive resolvers today released security advisories about a particularly nasty bug where the resolver can be tricked into Read more…
