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IPv6: The Time Has Come?

jd — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:48:06 +0000

Many organizations have reported receiving this letter from the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN):

http://www.arin.net/knowledge/about_resources/ceo_letter.pdf

They point out that we have about two years remaining in the life of of the IPv4 address space, and that we should be preparing to transition to IPv6 now. Are you ready?

Ubiquity: A New Firefox Extension

jd — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Ubiquity is a new idea by Mozilla labs. It’s goal is to be “The command line for Web 2.0″, connecting various web services together in your browser. It’s at a very primitive stage right now (version 0.1) and certainly not ready for Joe Average User, but it’s already generating some buzz. Check out the video and try it out yourself.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

(Thanks, Dave, for the suggestion.)

A MicroBlog for Your Company

jd — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:01:13 +0000

The winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 (50 best tech startups) is Yammer. As the title states, this is a microblog (like Twitter or FriendFeed) just for your company employees. Yammer provides an easy to use tool to encourage your employees to share information in an informal, yet easy to search way. Over time, the information can become a knowledge base for your company.

Unlimited, Cheap Solar Energy in 10 years?

jd — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:37:03 +0000

‘Major discovery’ from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

Scientists mimic essence of plants’ energy storage system

Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. With today’s announcement, MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.

Read the entire announcement here.

If this discovery can be mass produced, it will change everything from power distribution to fighting for foreign oil. Go MIT!

New Online Presentation Tool

jd — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:47:28 +0000

I was just invited to check out SlideRocket, a new online presentation tool. Goes way beyond PowerPoint or KeyNote. You can even embed presentations into your blog!

How cool is that?