Big News! 360° photos now available for any WordPress site via JetPack plugin

For those of us experimenting with "360-degree photos", last week’s announcement of Jetpack 4.5 had a hidden but awesome feature: you can use a shortcode to embed your 360 photo or video into ANY WordPress site (that uses the Jetpack…

Watch Live Today – State of The Net 2017 conference in Washington, DC – security, privacy, IoT and more

Starting at 9:00am US EST (UTC-5) today, January 23, the State of the Net 2017 conference will stream live out of Washington, DC. This annual event brings together politicians, U.S. Congressional staff and other policy makers to discuss the current state of Internet policy, particularly as it relates to U.S. positions and policies. Given the new U.S. President, this year’s event should be of special interest. You can watch live at:

We will have two Internet Society staff participating:

Dan York

Testing 360 photos on WordPress

This is a 360-degree photo viewable via the Jetpack 4.5 plugin.

[vr url=”http://danyork.me/testsite/files/2017/01/Church-360.jpeg” view=360]

The shortcode I used to embed this photo here is:

[vr url=”http://danyork.me/testsite/files/2017/01/Church-360.jpeg” view=360]

This is a church in Helsinki, Finland. Photo taken using the Google Street View app on an iPhone.

Testing a 360 photo on WordPress

This should be a “360 photo” embedded using the latest (4.5) release of the Jetpack plugin:

Free webinar on DNS/Internet security – Thursday, 19 January, 18:00 UTC

Want to learn more about DNS security and the broader topic of Internet security? This Thursday, 19 January 2017, I will be speaking as part of a free webinar on the topic of “Visibility and Security – Two Sides of the Same Coin“.  The panel will include: Cricket Liu, Executive VP, Infoblox Dave Lewis, Global Read more…

For Immediate Release #70: Capitalizing on Insults

Chris Christensen and Jen Phillips joined host Shel Holtz to discuss some disturbing data: Most employees don’t know what makes their company different from the competition — and can’t explain it to customers. Other topics included the fact that U.S. travelers make 140 different website visits (on average) before booking a trip (do you know your customers’ path before they make a decision on your product or service?); some companies have turned insults and attacks by the President-elect into badges of honor — and merchandise for sale; getting people to share your content isn’t as big a deal as some marketers think, so what does it take to amplify your content (and what should we be measuring)? There’s much more, including Dan York’s tech report and a digital assistant for gradma.
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New Report on “State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016” Shows Continued Growth (Featured Blog)

Did you know that over 50% of .CZ domains are now signed with DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)? Or that over 2.5 million .NL domains and almost 1 million .BR domains are now DNSSEC-signed? Were you aware that around 80% of DNS clients are now requestin…

TDYR 320 – The State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016

What is the state of deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)? What is DNSSEC all about, anyway? Why should you care about it? What does it do? In this episode I dive into what DNSSEC does and the recent report we released about the “State of DNS…

For Immediate Release #69: Shut Up Already, Mariah Carey

Three IABC Fellows — Priya Bates, John Deveney, and Mark Schumann — joined Shel Holtz for this week’s FIR to talk about the need for businesses to prepare for the prospect of a tweeted attack by the President of the United States, Muslim inclusion as an element of TV advertising, the increasingly common requirement that employees host Facebook Live broadcasts, Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve lip synch fail (and the even worse blame game that followed), why the layoffs of white-collar employees whose jobs were replaced by IBM’s Watson should be on every communicator’s radar, and conversation as they new platform based on the number of AI-conversation-fueled products introduced last week at the Consumer Electronics Show. Dan York reports on databases being held for ransom and Russia’s demand that Google and Apple remove the LinkedIn app from their app stores.
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New report: “State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016”

What is the current state of deployment of the DNS Security Extensions? (DNSSEC) How many domains are secured with DNSSEC? What actual usage are we seeing on the Internet? What software is available to help? For years there have been many statistics about DNSSEC available, but it’s been hard to get an overall picture of […]

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