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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
August : "Maybe it's time for the W3C to look at the consortium aspect and address concerns about "openness", perhaps by having an auxilary to provide the kind of structure and governance that would not require something like the WHATWG to exist." September: W3F
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EverythingFlex.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
My friend and Adobe Evangelist Duane Nickull shares lessons learned from participating in four of the world’s largest Service Oriented Architecture groups, OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee, the W3C Web Services Architecture working group, the United Nations CEFACT eBusiness SOA project and ebXML. Duane also discusses how these lessons will be applied to [...]...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
While the rest of the web will take some time to go semantic, Swirrl is thinking globally while acting locally with a new wiki and spreadsheet service based on W3C semantic standards. Read More...
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
We've all heard stories of various online filters that block perfectly legitimate sites as being "porn" or something else objectionable, but sometimes there are such extreme cases that it makes you wonder what people are thinking. Apparently, some ISPs are using a filtering system that believes the W3C site should be blocked as porn . W3C, of course, is the body that manages standards for the web....
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ShaunInman.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Linked everywhere a while back. Handy for days when the W3C’s “Validate by file upload” feature appears to be hosed (today seems to be one such day) or when you’re offline (say, traveling). Drag and drop to validate local files couldn’t be easier. #
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Accessify: latest news (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
As Birmingham bruiser Brucey pointed out over the weekend, the W3C are keen for web developers to start embracing WAI-ARIA techniques now. As he said: The Web Accessiiblity Initiative’s Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, WAI-ARIA is a simple way to add information to HTML that can make Ajax ...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Do you know, when I was a kid, pictures of naked children were socially acceptable (after all, kids often didn’t wear clothes on the beach, and everyone washes their own kids, right? So you’re not seeing anything you haven’t seen a thousand times before), and pictures of naked adults were not (because that’s just not … right).
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Privacy is considered in the internet world as an important good. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed therefore the P3P-specificatie: Platform for Privacy Preferences. Businesses that P3P implement in their website change their in a [...]
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
The Finnish ISP Mikkelin Puhelin is blocking access to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) site, describing it as child porn. Due to reasons yet to be determined, the website of the World Wide Web Consortium, w3.org/w3c.org, is being filtered as child pornography (wget/curl) by the Finnish ISP, DNA Internet. Update Sept 27. 3PM: DNA has removed w3c from their list, but another ISP, Mikkelin Puhelin...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
At XTech 2006, I got a W3C brochure entitled Leading the Web to its Full Potential that had a diagram visualizing the W3C technology stack(s).
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no.5 blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Speaking of Location and the Web: Call for Papers is out for the 2nd International Workshop on Location and the Web. The first workshop in this series took place last year in conjunction with the W3C conference in Bejing. This year, the workshop will be held in conjunction with CHI 2009 - which I think [...]
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no.5 blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Quick note: Found via the locweb mailing list - the W3C just announced a new Geolocation Working Group as part of their Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity! Official announcement is here.
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CRM Daily (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Publishers that think they have mobile sewn up simply because they launch a mobile site should think again. Granted, it's imperative to cater to the needs of the almost 1 billion consumers accessing web content on their mobile phones worldwide -- a number the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) says will likely surpass the number of users accessing the web via fixed PC connections by the end of 2008. But...
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A Lucid Mind (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
include Last.fm, Socialthing, MyBlogLog, PopURL, Wordpress, LinkedIn, Toluu, Delicious, Twitter, Ping.fm, RSS logos, Pownce, Profilactic, FriendFeed, Jaikur, W3C CSS and XHTML Validator chicklets. These were initially created for myself, rather than using existing chicklets or not being able to find any at all. Mostly for my various Lifestream, social aggregators and feeds. It's not rocket science...
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Public Blog (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
A foundation populated by the giants of business, banking, government and military wants to “vet” websites and limit the spread of information that it says creates “conspiracy theories”. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) says it is worried about the way the web has been “used to spread disinformation”. They want to introduce a new system that would give websites a label for trustworthiness or unreliability....