The Live Video Streaming Nightmare: What Do You Do When YouTube Won’t Start? (And Lessons Learned)

What do you do if you go to start live video streaming of an event – and the streaming service you use won’t start??? How do let people waiting to watch know? How do you fall back to another service?…

Watch the 2014 Internet Governance Forum (#IGF2014) Live All This Week from Istanbul (Featured Blog)

The Ninth Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Meeting is taking place all this week, September 2-5, 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey and live video streams are available for all the sessions… I watched the opening session live stream today from my home o…

Learn IPv6 Basics in VMware #vBrownBag Webinar On Sept 3

Interested in learning more about “IPv6 for IPv4 Brains”? By way of a tweet we learned that Jeff Carrell will be the guest on VMware’s “#vBrownBag” webinar/podcast on this Wednesday, September 3, 2014, at 19:30 US Central Time (which I calculate to be 00:30 UTC on Thursday, Sept 4, if I do the math correctly). In another Read more…

DNSSEC Deployment Maps Updated Today (2 Sep 2014) With Latest New GTLDs

As part of our ongoing publishing of DNSSEC deployment maps showing visually the DNSSEC status of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), we also publish a comma-separated value (CSV) file that contains the DNSSEC status of all the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including all the “new gTLDs” that have been published as part of ICANN’s program.  We […]

Lifehacker: Disabling IPv6 Will NOT Speed Up Your Internet Connection

IPv6 is not exactly a topic we would normally expect to see on the hugely popular Lifehacker website, but there it was on Friday in a story by Patrick Allan, “Why Disabling IPv6 Won’t Speed Up Your Internet Connection“.  In the article, Patrick references an earlier article on How-To Geek that aims to dispel the Read more…

Can You Please Help The Ottawa Linux Symposium?

Ols logoIf you have ever used the Linux operating system, could you please help out the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS)? For many years OLS has been one of the key events that has helped bring together people from all across the Linux community, and …

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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 […]

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 …

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 Read more…

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 Inte…