The Dan York Report

At a "Breakfast with Santa" yesterday, Santa asked our 5-year-old daughter about what she wanted for Christmas...

Verizon came out with a new "Voice Cypher" OTT app for iOS, Android and Blackberry which sounds like a very cool way to have secure voice communication across mobile networks... until you realize that it has a government backdoor already built in. :-( http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/verizons-new-encrypted-calling-app-comes-prehacked-for-the-nsa https://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/...

In this episode I tried out the new "Opinion" app for the iPhone that aims to make podcasting easier: http://www.opinionpodcasting.com/ You can hear my thoughts in the episode...

To me the "directory problem" is the greatest challenge facing new communications apps such as Wire, Talko and many more.... how do you build up the directory of users so that the app is useful to people? People will only use a communications app IF the people they want to talk with are using the app!

Where are the TV shows that are ultimately positive and hopeful like The West Wing? I'm looking for series like that, but all the recent drama series seems to be dark and gritty...

An aspect of youth curling bonspiels (tournaments) is that...

This week was the start of breakfasts for the homeless that will be offered at a church in Keene, NH, each week day... I talk about that in this episode...

A new communications app launched today called "Wire". In this episode I talk about my initial thoughts... Also, see: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2014/12/initial-thoughts-on-wire-the-new-communication-app-from-ex-skypers.html

Today I tested "Firefox Hello", Mozilla's new WebRTC app that is included in Firefox 34. To read more about it, please visit: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2014/12/how-to-test-firefox-hello-mozillas-new-webrtc-video-call-service.html

I've set myself a personal challenge to "finish strong" in 2014 and write at least one blog post each day of December. More info at: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/12/a-blog-post-a-day-for-december-2014-finish2014strong.html

Some thoughts on dining customs in Japan and other cultural differences...

At our ION Tokyo event this week, I learned a good bit from talking with Japanese translators who then translated my talk... More info about the event: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/tokyo2014/

I landed in Tokyo, Japan, last night and just reflect here on my first impressions on my first visit to Japan...

Thoughts from Honolulu where I was for IETF 91.

TDYR 182 - Initial Thoughts About IETF 91 in Honolulu by Dan York

I can remember with vivid clarity where I was on that day 25 years ago when the Berlin Wall fell... this is that story... (I should note that I published this on November 8... thinking it was November 9th! Sigh....)

How can we work together to improve the security and resilience of the global routing system? A new "MANRS" initiative was launched today to answer that question! See http://www.manrs.org/ to read the MANRS document and sign up!

A chance meeting while dumping leaves made me suddenly realize it had never remotely occurred to me to re-use leaf bags... what does that say about my thinking in our disposable society?

Do you struggle with accepting compliments? I find it hard and tend to dismiss or diminish what it is I am being praised for... but in so doing I have come to realize I am also dismissing and diminishing the person giving the compliment. This is something I've been working on...

This morning I was reminded of the awesome power of the Internet to enable us to see and experience events from far away. For a few moments I watched the Russian Progress 57 spacecraft dock with the International Space Station... all live and in HD video... and all from the comfort of my home... https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2014/10/29/new-progress-resupply-craft-arrives-at-station/ It was a...

We had an awesome day at the Keene Pumpkin Festival this past Saturday, October 18, 2014. It was an amazing, wonderful event... but you wouldn't know that from the media coverage that focused on the rioting of a large mass of college students and other young people a few streets away from where the Pumpkin Festival was happening.

As many of us play with Ello, the newest social network to attract attention, I take a moment to remember Orkut, the first "social network" many of us used way back in 2004... and that was shut down today, September 30, 2014, by Google... Read more: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/09/rip-orkut-the-first-social-network-many-of-us-used.html Also posted on Ello, of course: https://ello.co...

How do we define what it is to be "SIP-compliant" in 2014? Can we even do so? How can we make it easier for companies and vendors to make their systems work with SIP?

Some initial thoughts on today's Apple event where the iPhone 6 and AppleWatch were announced...

Skype released a new version 5.4 for the iPhone today that allows you to initiate group audio calls from the iPhone. In this episode I walk through what I've found in a quick test of the new feature today... See http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2014/09/walk-through-skype-54-for-iphone-lets-you-host-audio-conference-calls.html for more info.