FIR #666 – 08/27/12 – For Immediate Release

Shel’s in Brazil; Giovanni Rodriguez interview is up; Quick news: Facebook launches Edge Studio for agencies, will Google shutter FeedBurner?, new Instagram features could lure brands, add your social media marketing tip to GaggleAmp; Ragan promo; News…

SIPNOC 2012 Photos Now Available On Flickr

At this year’s SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC) on June 25-27, 2012 in Reston, VA, I was shooting photos of the various presenters as well as trying to take some shots that captured the general feel of the excellent event….

Yea! Facebook’s iPhone/iPad App Finally Stops Sucking!

Hooray! With an update today Facebook’s iOS app for the iPhone and iPad finally stops being so terrible! Lately using the application on my iPad was an exercise in futility outside of just simple likes or comments. If I ever…

SIP Forum Formally Launches “SIP Over IPv6″ Task Group

Want to help make sure that the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) can work well over IPv6?  Want to help move the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) industry forward into the world of IPv6? If so, you can join the newly created “SIP Over IPv6 Task Group” within the SIP Forum. Yesterday in a message to the SIP Forum’s Read more…

Skype Releases Photo-Sharing for iPhone/iPad – Trying to Disrupt MMS? iMessage?

Today Skype launched an attack on sending photos via Apple’s iMessage, via email or via traditional SMS/MMS with the release of photo sharing for the iPhone and iPad versions of Skype. The key point of the blog post to me…

Sometimes There Are Things Worth Doing

Sometimes there are things worth doing, even if they make no sense, financial or otherwise, and seem to serve no purpose. Sometimes things just need to be done.
Sometimes we need to tilt at windmills… and let the universe perhaps reveal the value a…

FIR #665 – 08/20/12 – For Immediate Release

Giovanni Rodriguez interview coming; Mitch Joel will guest co-host on October 8; Mark Story has a new job; new podcast to check out is Online Marketing and Communications; can you see the FIR log in iTunes podcast app?; Quick news: Cinch.fm closes, pod…

11 Hours Left To Claim Your App.Net Username…

Yesterday, App.Net hit its funding goal of $500,000 USD and at the time I write this it has cruised over $745,000 with 11-ish hours left to go! As I mentioned in my report into FIR podcast episode 660 back in…

Speaking About DNSSEC in Bogotá, Colombia, on Tuesday, August 14…

Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 14, 2012, I (Dan York) will be in Bogotá, Colombia, speaking about DNSSEC and offering ideas for network operators and registrars about how they can accelerate the deployment of DNSSEC based on some of what we’ve seen. This is part of a full day titled “Taller DNSSEC”  (“DNSSEC Workshop”) sponsored by .CO Read more…

FIR #664 – 08/13/12 – For Immediate Release

John Earnhardt interview is up; quick news clips: FIR co-host blog posts lead to PRSA press release, check out The Crisis Show, HuffPostLive has launched, Connectify takes to Kickstarter to fund a new product, Google buys Frommers; Ragan promo; News Th…