This morning brings a collective "What the ______?" moment to the world of many Mac OS X users as we try to absorb the impact of the new Skitch 2.0 released by Evernote. Perhaps the reaction is best summarized by…
Sep 19
ARIN Enters Phase 2 of IPv4 Countdown – Only 3 /8 Blocks Left
Today marked another milestone in the ongoing exhaustion of IPv4 addresses – the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) entered Phase 2 of its IPv4 Countdown Plan meaning that it has only 3 “/8″ blocks of IPv4 addresses left. In fact, the counter on ARIN’s Countdown page shows only 2.89 /8 blocks left. On a Read more…
Sep 18
How WebRTC Will Fundamentally Disrupt Telecom (And Change The Internet)
If we step back to before 1993, publishing and finding content on the Internet was a somewhat obscure, geeky thing that a very few people cared about and very few knew how to do. It involved gopher servers, ftp sites,…
Sep 17
FIR #669 – 09/17/12 – For Immediate Release
Twitter handle now @FIRpodcast; FIR Book Review coming; Dr. Pepper vs creationists on Facebook; James Bond trades Martini for Heineken; FCC chairman blows tweetchat; ‘kerfuffle’ the best word ever; Ragan promo; social media and diplomacy; Michael Netzl…
Sep 11
Tor (The Onion Router) Expands IPv6 Support in 0.2.4.1-alpha
Last week the Tor Project announced a new alpha release 0.2.4.1 that includes as one of its major features expanded support for IPv6. From the release notes: Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534. Clients who set “ClientUseIPv6 1″ may connect to entry nodes over Read more…
Sep 11
Can You Add 1 Line of HTML To Your Site To Help Measure DNSSEC Usage?
Can you please help out with efforts to measure the number of DNSSEC-validating DNS resolvers out there? The folks at Verisign Labs are conducting some research into trying to understand what level of DNSSEC-validating resolvers are out on the open Internet. This is critical to understand as the availability of DNSSEC-validating resolvers is a key Read more…
Sep 10
FIR #668 – 09/10/12 – For Immediate Release
New Speaker and Speeches available; CW Bulletin addresses Wikipedia; Quick News: Connectify gets Kickstarter funding, Kred rolls out Salesforce.com integration, WordPress live-blogging plugin released, content marketing budgets rise; Ragan promo; News …
Sep 07
Speaking in Montenegro about DNSSEC on September 12
On Wednesday of this week I’ll be speaking about DNSSEC at the 5th international conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe in Budva, Montenegro. I’m very much looking forward to this event as it is entirely focused around the concerns of registries and registrars – and they are one of Read more…
Sep 07
New Mailing List for “Migrating Apps to IPv6” Updates
Would you like to be notified when updates are made to “Migrating Applications to IPv6“? If so, there’s a nifty little sign-up box over in the right sidebar that will add you to an email distribution list that I will use ONLY to alert you to …
Sep 07
AdhearsionConf 2012 Call For Speakers Ends Tomorrow (Sept 8)
Do you like building telephony apps with Adhearsion? Have you built a really cool app that is worth sharing? Or used Adhearsion in an unusual way? Are you planning to attend AdhearsionConf 2012 in Palo Alto on October 20-21? Or…
