The Dan York Report

After my recent post about the integration of Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts, I received a good bit of feedback. In this episode I talk about some of that feedback and further thoughts about this integration.

You can read more at: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/05/further-thoughts-on-the-google-voice-google-hangouts-integration.html

This past week Google made several changes that are part of their ongoing disruption of telecommunication. First, they announced at Google I/O that they were unifying their various real-time communications services (Google Voice, GoogleTalk, Google Messenger, Google+ Hangouts) under the "Hangouts" brand - and they also announced two "Hangouts" apps for iOS and Android, marking Google's entrance into the "over-the-top (OTT)" app space. Google also connected Google Voice to Google+ Hangouts so that you can now receive phone calls to your Google Voice number directly inside of Google+.

On the negative side, they have removed support for XMPP.

For more info, see: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/05/you-can-now-call-into-google-from-regular-phones-google-connects-google-voice-to-hangouts.html

This past week Google made several changes that are part of their ongoing disruption of telecommunication. First, they announced at Google I/O that they were unifying their various real-time communications services (Google Voice, GoogleTalk, Google Messenger, Google+ Hangouts) under the "Hangouts" brand - and they also announced two "Hangouts" apps for iOS and Android, marking Google's entrance into the "over-the-top (OTT)" app space. Google also connected Google Voice to Google+ Hangouts so that you can now receive phone calls to your Google Voice number directly inside of Google+.

On the negative side, they have removed support for XMPP.

For more info, see: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/05/you-can-now-call-into-google-from-regular-phones-google-connects-google-voice-to-hangouts.html

The horrific tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, yesterday was another example of where the Internet can play a powerful role in helping organize efforts in the face of a crisis. Here are some of the links I mention in the episode:

http://www.humanityroad.org/situation-report

https://moore.recovers.org/

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-oklahoma-tornado

https://www.facebook.com/cityofmoore

https://twitter.com/cityofmoore

My thoughts are certainly with all of those affected by this terrible disaster.

The horrific tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, yesterday was another example of where the Internet can play a powerful role in helping organize efforts in the face of a crisis. Here are some of the links I mention in the episode:

http://www.humanityroad.org/situation-report

https://moore.recovers.org/

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-oklahoma-tornado

https://www.facebook.com/cityofmoore

https://twitter.com/cityofmoore

My thoughts are certainly with all of those affected by this terrible disaster.

Some reflections and thoughts about travel in Ireland and in particular the Galway region. I was in Ireland in May 2013 to attend a conference in Dublin and then spent 4 more days exploring the country with my wife.

Some reflections and thoughts about travel in Ireland and in particular the Galway region. I was in Ireland in May 2013 to attend a conference in Dublin and then spent 4 more days exploring the country with my wife.

This week I have been in Dublin, Ireland, at the DNS-OARC and RIPE66 meetings meeting people and talking all about IPv6 and DNS / DNSSEC. It has been a great week and this is a quick report from the site. You can get the slides and archives from:

http://www.dns-oarc.net/

http://ripe66.ripe.net/

This week I have been in Dublin, Ireland, at the DNS-OARC and RIPE66 meetings meeting people and talking all about IPv6 and DNS / DNSSEC. It has been a great week and this is a quick report from the site. You can get the slides and archives from:

http://www.dns-oarc.net/

http://ripe66.ripe.net/

SoundCloud has rolled out a new release of their iOS app that will, in theory, auto-publish a link to your sound to Google+ after you configure it. This is interesting because Google has so far only allowed a very few applications to connect directly into Google+ to share information. (Having said all this, this first episode after configuring Google+ sharing failed to post to Google+ with an "Oops" error message showing up in Google+.)