The Web & Blogging
The Internet is starting to get full.
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
That the Internet is still growing isn’t news. At least that is what you would think. It seems that the Internet Service Providers aren’t thinking of this too much. With the current growth of new Internet users the Internet is starting to get full, especially with upcoming markets with giants like China.
This warning comes from Vint Cerf; one of the founders of the current Internet Protocols and he says that it can happen around 2010 that people can’t enter the Internet anymore with new devices like servers, pda’s and even MP3 players.
The system that is now used for providing IP addresses is IPv4 and it provides room for four billion IP’s. This system creates IP’s with 12 numbers in it. The system that can solve the growth problem is IPv6 which was developed about 10 years ago. This “new” system can create 340 trillion new IP addresses but it is still not implemented all over the world.
Vint Cerf says in his interview with the BBC that the reason for this is that the customers (ISP’s) haven’t asked for it and that this why it isn’t implemented yet. The main reason why they haven’t asked for this is because the IPv6 and IPv4 systems are not compatible so ISP’s need to run two parallel systems which will ad additional costs.
ProBlogger Darren Rowse is Celebrating his Blogs Birthday.
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger is celebrating his blog’s 3 year birthday.
Darren’s blog is about blogging and making money online. He is without a doubt the most respected and successful in his niche. I had the honour of speaking briefly with him several times and not only is he an excellent teacher/tutor about blogging but more important he’s a great and honest man. If you want to know more about him go check out ProBlogger or see his profile on the northxeast 50 most influential bloggers list. With the millions of bloggers out there, he’s now “ranking” number 23 on the list, which is truly amazing itself.
How is Problogger celebrating there birthday? There doing it big time!!
There giving away over $54000 in cash and prizes. It’s a pretty neat concept, they have a bunch of sponsors and people complete tasks (such as leave a comment on the blog, write a specific post or send and email) to get entered into an individual contest. As of right now, they have given away 3 prizes and will be giving prizes away all week!
