May 24
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.
You can read more at: http://www.disrup…
May 23
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…
May 23
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…
May 22
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…
May 22
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?…
May 21
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:
http://www.humanityroad.or…
May 21
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…
May 20
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…
May 20
Some reflections and thoughts about travel in Ireland and in particular the Galway region. I was in Ireland in May 2013 to attend a conference in Dublin and then spent 4 more days exploring the country with my wife.
May 19
Beyond the fact that I had a conference in Dublin, Ireland, there was a second and much more powerful reason why my wife accompanied me on this trip. You see, it was two years ago on May 16th when a doctor told us that Lori had cancer. It was in July 2011 when she had her surgery and it was shortly after that when they told us she had invasive cancer and would need chemo and much more… but the date of May 16 will be forever remembered by us as the day that everything changed. To say that it’s…
