One of the strangest things about using Facebook on a mobile device, either through Facebook’s mobile website or directly through the mobile phone apps has been this – there has been no way to "share" links! It has seemed a…
Nov 15
Barriers To Blogging – #4 – Getting The Tools Out Of The Way
Are the tools you use one of the barriers to your blogging? Is it easy for you to jump in and write a post? Or does the system you use make it complex or slow? In a response to my…
Nov 14
Cisco’s 6Lab Provides Worldwide IPv6 Statistics With Interactive Map, Daily Updates
Want IPv6 deployment statistics? Want to use an interactive map to see the global deployment? Over the past few months, Cisco’s IPv6 Lab has rolled out a very cool new IPv6 statistics site at: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/ We recently added a resource page about the site and added it to our list of IPv6 statistics sites. Pulling Read more…
Nov 14
Cisco’s 6Lab Statistics Site
Cisco maintains a comprehensive IPv6 statistics site that is updated daily at: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/ As Alain Fiocco wrote in a very detailed blog post announcing the 6lab statistics site, there are a number of ways to interact with the data: Simply mouse over the world map to see aggregated metrics per country. Select your favorite “data Read more…
Nov 14
The Apple Maps Fiasco Finally Hits Me – Tiffin St, Not Giffin St
Until last night I had been blissfully unaffected by the whole Apple Maps fiasco. I upgraded both my iPhone and iPad to iOS 6.0 and have generally had no problems whatsoever. I’ve gotten to where I needed to go when…
Nov 14
Microsoft Researching Skype Password Reset Security Hole
This morning The Next Web reported on an exploit where Skype’s password reset web page could be used to hijack a user’s Skype account using only the password associated with the account. So… if you could guess someone’s email address (which can often be found through a Google search), you could effectively take over their […]
Nov 13
The Fascinating Interest in Using Google Voice With SIP Addresses
Why are so many people interested in using Google Voice with SIP? Is this a sign that people really want to use SIP-based services for VoIP? Is this all hobbyists or people looking to play around with Google Voice? Or…
Nov 13
Barriers To Blogging – #3 – The Tyranny of the Empty Page
Certainly one of the barriers to blogging is simply this: You have to START writing an article/post. You can have ideas floating around endlessly inside your head. You can talk about ideas with people. Write the ideas down on scraps…
Nov 12
FIR #677 – 11/12/12 – For Immediate Release
Gartner tech predictions, WordPress alternative could focus on blogging only, proof that blogging and new content produce traffic and leads, Apple-Samsung UK case update; Ragan promo; News That Fits: crisis at the BBC shows lack of communication savvy,…
Nov 12
Barriers To Blogging – #2 – Wanting To Publish The Perfect Post
Beyond the distractions of the Internet, another barrier I find to hitting "Publish" (or even to getting text together) is a desire to have a "perfect" blog post. Well, perhaps "perfect" isn’t right… but "close to perfect". I want a…
