The Dan York Report

The big news today was that SoundCloud closed a $170 million round of funding to continue its operations. I talk about that, and my own views on SoundCloud's evolution. Many articles about this at: https://www.techmeme.com/170811/p5#a170811p5

What is the state of IPv6 deployment? Today on the 5th "Launchiversary" of World IPv6 Launch, the Internet Society published a new report, the "State of IPv6 Deployment 2017". I talk about the report and some of the information you can find inside - and encourage listeners to read the report - and deploy IPv6!

More info: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/06/landmark-ipv6-report-published-state-deployment-2017-5

The report: https://www.internetsociety.org/doc/state-ipv6-deployment-2017

Just a brief update as I prepare to leave Kenya..

Snapchat just rolled out "Custom Stories" that let you create a thread of photos and videos that your friends can contribute to and also view. You can include a group of friends - or use geofencing to tie the story to a location. I am curious - what do you all think about this this feature?

I haven't published a TDYR episode in almost a month, haven't published many blog posts since March, and haven't been very active on social media... here is a bit about why...

The Mastodon social network is getting a great bit of buzz. In this episode I provide some initial thoughts on what is going on. You can find me at

https: // mastodon.social / @danyork (That link isn't working well. Try this: http://bit.ly/2oi4wxJ )

"Why should I care about encryption? How does it affect my business?" In this episode I give a simple example of why encryption is important for every business, government or organization. Read more at: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/04/encryption-critical-business-communication

Our messaging systems are a mess - how do you know how to reach someone? They are spread across so many different messaging / chat systems. I wrote about this today on my Disruptive Telephony blog - and recorded this audio commentary. Here's the blog post: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2017/03/xkcd-comic-perfectly-captures-sad-fragmented-state-of-messaging-chat-systems.html

I just used Lyft for the first time (an Uber competitor) and recorded my thoughts...

This past week brought the ability to create a "snapcode" for any website. This makes it easy for Snapchat users to very easily get to your sites. In this episode I talk about how to do that and why I think this could be very useful...