Posts Tagged Internet
Implementing IPv6
Posted by Sreelesh in Technology on November 30, 2009
I was searching around for information on IPv6 implementations and found a statement in Twitter that sums up the global state of affairs related to IPv6 perfectly:
Woke up again thinking about IPv6. Gotta do something about.
The IT world’s realized that IPv6 is inevitable but nothing solid is really being done in a huge majority of organizations. I feel it’s not just the costs associated, but also the lack of information that is available on the subject. Apparently only 10% of IPv4 addresses are available globally and this would exhaust in a year or two.
So what happens then if you do not get along with IPv6?
- You cannot have another ‘networked’ equipment (a sure bye bye to the ‘internet of things’ concept)
- There will be islands of IPv6 networks private or public that you will find hard to reach to
- IPv6 networks would also stumble a few times before reaching your network. Your business would definitely be hurt by the lack of IPv6 compatibility(the US government has even announced that they will only procure gear that supports IPv6 from next July)
IPv6 is not just against ‘IP address exhaustion’, but it also ensures a more secure (by including IPsec) and quicker network (fixed size headers that requiring less processing).
Businesses need to educate the IT team on the importance and short time available and also ensure only IPv6 supported hardware and software is procured. Every aspect of the network will need an overhaul – the ISP, connectivity with ISP, the routers, firewalls, switches, every single node on the network, including application installations. A good social network site that offers information and help on implementing IPv6 is gogo6. It also offers services and hardware to make that smooth transitioning :- tunneling services for IPv6 connectivity and an IP gateway providing v4-v6 interoperability.
Other interesting reading on IPv6 implementation:
- Worldwide only 0.238 percent of their users’ systems have IPv6 enabled. Russia, France, Ukraine, Norway, USA lead in IPv6 adoption.
- More Macs mean higher IPv6 usage in US (no less than 52 percent of all IPv6 users have a Mac and use 6to4)
- Cash for Clunker architecture?
- Most common IPv6 questions answered
- Largest IPv6 ISP doubles in size
Doing business & the Internet
Posted by Sreelesh in Marketing, Technology on March 9, 2008
Brick & mortar companies, click & mortar companies, internet-only companies.. I remember feeling so interested just by the coinage of terms!
There are lots to be gained by companies who finally decide to have Internet presence. Apart from the immediate extension of distribution channels, brand equity, economies of scale and what not, the most to be gained from is the whole new feedback mechanism that your products and services are exposed to. You now get immediate, usable feedback from your patrons; in fact, you can probably do away with your Market Research and idea generation teams!
This brings me to more serious thinking: if your company’s not doing good in the Internet age, you are definitely not giving your customers what they want! If you are planning to go online with your business, make sure you have the stomach and the head to make use of customer feedback: listen up or you’ll soon shut shop!
Me claims SimplyMe at Technorati
Posted by Sreelesh in Technology on July 5, 2007
Digg it!
Posted by Sreelesh in Technology on May 3, 2007
Digg is another site that is based on the bookmarking concept. Here one can create a profile and submit content – articles, video, a podcast etc, which would then be given a thumbs up(’Digg it’) or thumbs down(’Bury’) by other Diggers. Depending on how popular your submission is, you can come out tops in the respective category and see your submission in the ‘Newly popular’, ‘Top in 24 hours’, ‘7 days’, ‘30 days’ or ‘365 days’ popularity charts. They also have a visualization tool with which you can track your submission’s ‘walk to fame n glory’ or …. .
The way Digg has it on their site: “Digg is a digital media democracy. As a user, you participate in determining all site content by discovering, selecting, sharing, and discussing the news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you.” This site sure is one of the most used and popular ones. A very clever invention. I WILL have my own login!
Check this popular Digged article: Man dies of thirst during survival test – men loosing the humaneness in them 
del.icio.us
Posted by Sreelesh in Technology on April 15, 2007
I start this post with my sincere respect-appreciation-adulation for those who dedicatedly make a blog post everyday.
I’ve always wondered what all those words beneath every popular blog post are: Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Newsvine, etc.. Stopped wondering n found out!.. del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to store and share links to your favorite webpages. In their own words: “del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too.”
A very useful site when you’re doing research on a particular topic and you want to store all those links you found. Also, you could depend on del.icio.us (pretty hard typing out that name!try another name guys) to find more coz everyone would be putting up their favorite(& most useful) links on the same topic. You can have tags associated to the links to have easier recall and also for better library maintenance.
The site, interestingly, started out as a pet project by the founder Joshua Schachter, who was a Morgan Stanley employee. It was called memepool.. Here’s a nice read on how it all began: 2006 Young Innovator.
I looked up the recent tags and zeroed in on this beautiful collection of pictures: The most amazing pics from StumbleUpon.
Btw, for the many inventors on the Web, here’s some motivation – the site was bought by Yahoo for $30+ million.
Cya.
I had to.. and then I wanted to.
Without too much of thinking let me start with how I felt the need to start a blog :
1. EVERY other person I know has a blog of his/her own ( a few even have 2-3!)..
2. My work.. the IT & Telecom industry is always hit with new products, innovations, news, technologies etc. and one has to know of the latest ASAP. If that was not difficult enough – I wasn’t much of a master of what ‘was’ or ‘is’ in the industry… I wanted to try catch up, try get to the bottom & top of things.. I decided I’d study something new everyday, and for keeping a record – blog about it..so there arose the ‘I had to blog’ realization..
3. I’ve been reading on how blogging helps in so many ways (profession & personal) & well.. I’m game for good advice.. I wanted to blog.
4. An admission – I was impressed with a few of my friends’ blogs & I was wondering whether I could also be of the impressive blog types 
.. maybe later on I’ll let the world in on who impressed me & somehow got to be the reason for me starting a blog!(when my pride allows – should take quite a long time lol)
Well, that’s enough for the birth of SimplyMe, can’t wait to hit the preview button.
Thanks for your time!
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