Who Has Helped The Internet? May 31 Deadline For Nominations for 2013 Jonathan Postel Service Award (Featured Blog)

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Further Thoughts on the Google Voice / Google+ Hangouts Integration

My post this week about Google Voice ringing into Google+ Hangouts generated a good bit of commentary, not only on the original post but also out on Hacker News, Reddit, Google+ and other areas. Given the range of responses, I…

TDYR #010 – Further Thoughts On Google Voice And Google+ Hangouts

After my recent post about the integration of Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts, I received a good bit of feedback. In this episode I talk about some of that feedback and further thoughts about this integration.

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Did Google REALLY Kill Off All XMPP/Jabber Support In Google+ Hangouts? It Still Seems To Partially Work

Did Google really kill off all of their support for XMPP (Jabber) in Google+ Hangouts? Or is it still there in a reduced form? Will they be bringing back more support? What is really going on here? In my excitement…

TDYR #009 – Google Aims To Disrupt Telecom By Unifying Google Voice And Google+ Hangouts

This past week Google made several changes that are part of their ongoing disruption of telecommunication. First, they announced at Google I/O that they were unifying their various real-time communications services (Google Voice, GoogleTalk, Google Me…

You Can Now Call Into Google+ From Regular Phones – Google Connects Google Voice To Hangouts

Want to hear the sound of Google further disrupting the world of telecom? If you have a Google Voice number and also use Google+ (as I do) with the Hangouts feature enabled, you’ll soon be hearing this new sound if…

Video: My Discussion of DNSSEC and DANE with VoIP / SIP on The VUC

What role could DNSSEC potentially play to help better secure voice-over-IP (VoIP)? How could the DANE protocol help provide a stronger level of security to SSL/TLS certificates used in VoIP? What VoIP software out there right now works with DNSSEC?…

TDYR #008 – The Moore Tornado And The Internet As A Powerful Tool For Organizing In Times Of Crisis

The horrific tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, yesterday was another example of where the Internet can play a powerful role in helping organize efforts in the face of a crisis. Here are some of the links I mention in the episode:

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Switzerland Edges Out Romania As Top In IPv6 Adoption (via Google)

By way of a message to the “ipv6-ops” mailing list this morning we learned the fun fact that according to Google’s IPv6 Statistics Switzerland has edged out Romania as the country with the most IPv6 adoption coming in at 9.47% versus Romania at 8.63%. Given that Romania has held the lead in IPv6 adoption for Read more…

FIR #704 – 5/20/13 – For Immediate Release

Amsterdam conference report, more B2B Huddle talks are up, Attenzi book review is up; Quick News: Vine videos shared four times more than viral videos, IABC’s CW magazine goes digital only, the state of social media advertising, Atlantic Media’s next d…