Reminder – Opus Codec Presentation Streaming LIVE From IETF 87 in 2 Hours

Want to learn more about the Opus codec and why it is so important? As I mentioned at the end of my last post about why Opus matters, there will be a special presentation about Opus as part of the…

FIR #714 – 7/29/13 – For Immediate Release

New interview with Tony Million, airPR interview coming; IABC update; shoutout to Rachel Miller for AllThingsIC TV; Quick News: was your Instagram account hacked?, RIP AdAge Power 150, world’s first Twitter-themed hotel opens, LinkedIn makes some moves…

Why the Opus Codec Matters – Even if You Don’t Care About Audio (Featured Blog)

What makes the Opus codec so interesting? Why is there such a buzz about Opus right now? If you are not in telecom or doing anything with audio, why should you even remotely care about Opus? In a word… Innovation! And because Opus has the potential t…

Why The Opus Codec Matters – Even If You Don’t Care About Audio (Featured Blog)

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Why The Opus Codec Matters – Even If You Don’t Care About Audio

What makes the Opus codec so interesting? Why is there such a buzz about Opus right now? If you are not in telecom or doing anything with audio, why should you even remotely care about Opus? In a word… Innovation!…

TDYR #025 – Why The Opus Codec Matters

Why does the Opus codec matter for apps and services communicating on the Internet? What *is* the Opus codec? Why should you care? In this episode I speak about what Opus is all about and how it has the potential to enable better user experiences on …

IETF Journal – WebRTC: Moving Real-Time Communication into the Web Browser

Seeking to understand the basics of WebRTC and why there is so much interest in it? There is a new July 2013 issue of the IETF Journal out this week that includes an article I wrote titled "WebRTC: Moving Real-Time…

“Rough Guide To IETF 87″ Now Available – IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing and much, much more…

Next week is the 87th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), taking place this time in Berlin, Germany, and it will be an incredibly busy week as something like 1,200-1,500 engineers gather in a hotel meeting space to debate and discuss various topics and create the open standards that power the Internet.  There Read more…

Apple Celebrates 1 Billion Podcast Subscriptions Via iTunes!

By way of a Facebook update from Donna Papacosta, I learned that Apple announced that there have been over 1 billion podcast subscriptions through iTunes. Yes, one billion subscriptions! And indeed opening up iTunes, going to the iTunes Store and…

TDYR #024 – SoundCloud’s Crashing iOS App Is A Reminder To Have Multiple Tools

Today was frustrating in that the SoundCloud app on iOS kept crashing when I tried to upload a recording. It turns out that this is a known issue and a fix has been submitted to the app store:

http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/12282…