An Interesting Historical Timeline of Canadian Telecommunications

Last week I was up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the Internet Society’s ION conference that was a part of the larger Canadian ISP Summit. This was only the first Canadian ISP Summit, but I’ve heard only excellent reports on…

Must Read Piece from SEOmoz: "Duplicate Content in a Post-Panda World"

What is the impact of "duplicate content" on the search engine ranking of your web content? What are the different ways you can wind up with duplicate content? And perhaps most importunely, how can you correct the issue? Over at…

OMG! Skype Simultaneously Releases (Almost) The Same Version on Windows and Mac OS X

Yesterday I sat in such utter shock that I had to look out my window to see if, in fact, we were witnessing porcine aviation. My brain was having a hard time processing something I had just read online. I…

Google+ Expands Chat/IM To Your Circles – And Across All Google Services

Google announced a few minutes ago that they are rolling out new capabilities to the chat services inside of Google+. When the expanded gets out to all users over the next 48 hours, you will be able to chat with…

The US Congress, PROTECT IP, SOPA, E-PARASITES… and the War For the Open Internet

If you are a U.S. citizen and have NOT been paying attention to the madness going on in the US Congress right now with regard to the Internet, you really NEED to take a look… If you have a website,…

The Google vs Amazon Platform Rant – A Must-Read From Steve Yegge

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What does Amazon.com do so much better than Google? And why does Amazon do everything “wrong” while Google does everything “right”… yet offer …

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Sweet! Apple iOS 5.0.1 Is Available Over-The-Air (OTA) – Faster and No iTunes Required!

For those of use with iOS devices, news of today’s iOS 5.0.1 that fixes battery issues was welcome… and along with it the news that this update is available "over-the-air" (OTA). NO iTUNES SYNC REQUIRED! Just go into Settings, then…

IETF Journal for October 2011 Digs into DNSSEC, Port Control Protocol, Internet Evolution

Want to learn more about what is happening with regard to standards in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? Want to understand the details about new proposals to offer another way to secure domains using DNSSEC? Never heard of the…

And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production Network

For those of us wanting to see IPv6 deployed, yesterday brought the great news that Comcast has started rolling out its IPv6 production network to customers. Now, granted, the initial rollout was to only 100 homes in San Francisco’s East…

Awesome Video of NY Marathon – See What 47,000 Runners Looks Like!

Amazing video from the NY MTA showing the different waves of runners starting the 2011 New York City Marathon this past Sunday on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Truly incredible to see what 47,000 runners looks like…