Aug 31
Swisscom Doubles IPv6 Deployment – Verizon Wireless Hits 70% IPv6
Some great news for IPv6 advocates in the latest August 2015 World IPv6 Launch measurements. As our colleague Mat Ford writes, Swisscom doubled their deployment over the past few months to near 40%! Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless continues its steady climb to where the sites measuring activity are now seeing 70% IPv6 deployment from Verizon’s network: Read more…
Aug 31
Hobson & Holtz #823: Do brands need Chief Narrative Officers?
Joe Thornley sits in as guest co-host. In this week’s episode: Facebook responds to suggestions that it benefits from copyright violations and introduces a new tool to help fight them; publisher performance on Instagram is through the roof; Instagram abandons the square-only photo and video requirement; GIFs.com adds some nifty features marketers will like; why ever brand could use a Chief Narrative Officer; the 1MDB scandal; listener comments; podcasting is on the upsurge (and a discussion about podcast networks); Chrome will start automatically pausing some Flash content starting on September 1; why people hate making phone calls; Slack is making privacy cool again; the end of the Internet dream; Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff face off on the death of social media marketing; and more.
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Aug 30
TDYR 262 – Returning To Regular Rhythms and Routines
Summer is over in the Northern Hemisphere and now we return to the regular rhythms and routines…
Aug 26
Congratulations to Uruguay on signing .UY with DNSSEC!
Last week Uruguay became the latest country to sign their country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) with DNSSEC! With that change, the DNSSEC deployment map for the Latin American region gets just that much greener. And now, everyone using a .UY domain will potentially be able to benefit from the increased security and trust provided by DNSSEC Read more…
Aug 24
Hashtag Support In Ello Helps Find Great Content
About three weeks ago, Ello added hashtag support and made it possible for people to find great content that is being posted on Ello. Paul Budnitz wrote about the launch (on Ello, of course) and included some examples (to which…
Aug 23
Hobson & Holtz Report #822: The case against impressions as a digital metric
Drones are taking off in the oil industry, the U.S. federal government partners with Yelp to get citizen reviews, personal photos at work: pictures that paint a thousand words; mobile messaging has come of age; the case against impressions as a digital metric; Dan York’s Tech Report; republishing older blog content: does it work?
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Aug 19
Voice of VOIPSA in “Top 24 VoIP Blogs on the Internet”
It was nice to see this blog included in a recent “Top 24 VoIP Blogs on the Internet” post put out by Commander, who appears to be a provider of VoIP equipment, services and more: http://blog.commander.com/top-24-voip-blogs-on-the-internet/ Obviously any list like this is very subjective but we do appreciate the mention, particularly given that the blogging […]
Aug 19
Video For All Those Parents Who Travel: "While I Was Away" by Pat Green
For all of those parents like me who travel a good bit, singer Pat Green recently put out this very well-done and quite touching video, "While I Was Away": I’d honestly never heard of Pat Green before, but a work colleague shared the link on an internal forum. My work takes me away from my wife and kids for about 25% of the time … so about 80-90 days a year… and it’s definitely very hard on all of us. I’m thankful my job doesn’t take me away more, as some of the other professions do. But each time I’m…
Aug 17
TDYR 261 – Working In Toronto For A Week
I’m working in Toronto, Ontario, this week… and in this episode I explain a bit about WHY…
