August 2011
1 post
If you need @arrington to read your email, just print it and bring it to a tech party. (That’s why he’s there.)
July 2011
1 post
RT @nickf: UX Concerns Across Mobile Platforms: http://t.co/B1MTP07 (via @IATV) #xchannel
March 2011
14 posts
Databases on the Semantic Web: Drafts Published... →
The RDB2RDF Working Group has published Working Drafts of R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language
and
A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF, which enable people to expose relational database…
Last Call: Widget Packaging and Configuration →
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Widget Packaging and Configuration. This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a class of…
Device API Access Control Use Cases and... →
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Group Note of Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements. With the emergence of numerous new APIs in Web browsers and runtime…
W3C to Participate in Web Summit Bilbao →
The W3C Spain Office, together with representatives from W3C Members Anoboto and CTIC; the City Council of Bilbao; the Basque Government; and the Spanish Ministry of Science and…
XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0; XQuery Update... →
W3C published two Recommendations today: XQuery Update Facility 1.0 and XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0. The former defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The…
W3C Invites Discussion of Open Web Platform for... →
W3C invites all WWW2011 participants to meet at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre
(HICC) to discuss the regional and global impact of this expanding Open Web
Platform for…
Last Call: SVG Compositing Specification →
The SVG Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of SVG Compositing Specification. SVG is a language for describing vector graphics, but it is typically rendered to a display or…
The Sherpas are Here →
Today, I am very proud to announce the launch of our newest endeavor: Web Standard Sherpa. This project has been the better part of a year in the making and we’re really excited to see it finally…
RT @pondry: The perfect way to makeup after an argument: http://t.co/xZSt4s4
Three Web Apps Last Calls: Server-Sent Events,... →
The Web Applications Working Group published three Last Call Working Drafts today:
Server-Sent Events, defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a…
Last Call: Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 →
The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. This ontology (vocabulary) bridges the different descriptions of media…
W3C Note Published: Describing Linked Datasets... →
The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a Group Note of Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary. Semantic Web and other technologies have made it easy and beneficial to…
W3C Launches HTML5 Chinese Interest Group →
W3C has launched the HTML5 Chinese Interest Group, whose mission is to facilitate focused discussion in Chinese of the HTML5 specification and of specifications closely related to HTML5, to…
Best practices for creating MMI Modality... →
The Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Working Group today published Best practices for creating MMI Modality Components as a Group Note. Multimodal access means that people may use diverse…
February 2011
1 post
Quora: What are some examples of municipalities having a cohesive digital strategy acr… Answer: http://qr.ae/MUoI
January 2011
5 posts
Invitation to W3C Germany and Austria Office... →
W3C is pleased to announce that the German
Research Center for Artifical Intelligence (DFKI), a long-term W3C Member and the leading German research institute in the field of
innovative software…
Last Call: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces →
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Last Call draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces. This document describes a loosely coupled architecture for multimodal user…
POLL: How are you planning to expand your mobile strategy in 2011? http://linkd.in/f0qtd1
Call for Review: XQuery Update Facility 1.0... →
The XML Query Working Group
has published a Proposed Recommendation of the XQuery
Update Facility 1.0; this defines extensions to XQuery to support
changing documents in place in an efficient…
How are you planning to expand your mobile strategy in 2011? http://linkd.in/hdrNPd
December 2010
4 posts
Two Voice Specifications Updated: VoiceXML 2.0 and... →
The Voice Browser Working Group has published Working Drafts today of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 and State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control…
There seems to be trouble on the interwebs. Lots of sites down right now.
W3C Launches Federated Social Web Incubator Group →
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Federated Social Web Incubator Group, whose mission is to investigate the core functionality and the overall technical architecture for a federated…
Incubator Group Report: Provenance XG Final Report →
The W3C Provenance Incubator Group has published their final report. The provenance of information is crucial to making determinations about whether information is trusted, how to integrate…
November 2010
7 posts
Launching a simple, yet useful service. Check it out: http://sendfiles.org (it’s free too)
W3C Launches HTML5 Korean Interest Group →
W3C has launched the HTML5 Korean Interest Group, whose mission is to facilitate focused discussion in Korean of the HTML5 specification and of specifications closely related to HTML5, to gather…
Last Call: XHTML+RDFa 1.1 →
The RDFa Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML+RDFa 1.1. RDFa Core 1.1 defines attributes and syntax for embedding semantic markup in Host Languages. XHTML+RDFa 1.1…
RT @sxsw: Register by Friday, Nov. 12 to save on a #SXSW 2011 registration! http://ow.ly/3707P
W3C Community Convenes Over Open Web Platform and... →
About 300 people from the W3C community convene today in Lyon, France for TPAC 2010 Plenary to discuss the current challenges in building an Open Web Platform as well as ideas for future…
Global Adoption of W3C Standards Boosted by... →
Today W3C, the International Standards Organization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) took steps that will encourage greater international adoption of W3C standards….
Dropped off my ballot. #ivoted
October 2010
6 posts
First Draft of Permissions for Device API Access... →
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Permissions for Device API Access. A number of Web APIs, in particular those used to access private or…
CSS Text Level 3 Draft Published →
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Text Level 3. This CSS3 module defines properties for text manipulation and specifies their processing model….
Last Call: Widget Packaging and Configuration →
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Widget Packaging and Configuration. Widgets are client-side applications that are authored using Web standards such…
W3C Launches Points of Interest Working Group →
W3C has launched a Points of Interest Working Group, whose mission is to develop technical specifications for the representation of “Points of Interest” information on the Web. For the purposes…
Multilingual Web Workshop Program Published →
The MultilingualWeb Project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the W3C, is looking at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying…
W3C UK and Ireland Office Moves to Nominet →
After 13 years of successful work at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the W3C UK and Ireland Office has a new home at Nominet.
Nominet runs the one of the world’s largest Internet…
Web on TV: Towards Smarter Integration of Web and... →
The explosion of the mobile device market demonstrates how consumers
have come to expect and rely on access to the network from anywhere,
at any time. Increasingly, people expect similar access to…
September 2010
11 posts
Widget Updates Draft Published →
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Widget Updates. This specification defines a process and a document format to allow a user agent to update an installed…
Two Media Capture Drafts Updated →
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published two Working Drafts: HTML Media Capture and The Media Capture API. The first defines HTML form enhancements that provide access to the…
W3C Launches Object Memory Modeling Incubator... →
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Object Memory Modeling Incubator Group, whose mission is to define an object memory format, which allows for modeling of events or other information…
It looks like facebook took my advice… a day for people to get some work done. http://twitpic.com/2r9pur
RDFa API Draft Published →
The RDFa Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of RDFa API. RDFa enables authors to publish structured information that is both human- and machine-readable. Concepts that…
How do we Improve Internet Privacy? IAB, ISOC,... →
W3C is pleased to announce a Workshop on Internet Privacy:
How can Technology help to improve Privacy on the Internet?, which takes place at MIT in Cambridge, MA (USA) on 8-9 December 2010. Who…
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces Draft... →
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI
Architecture), which defines a general and flexible…
Using Gist.com for Business Development →
I’ve been using gist.com for quite a while, and have seen it’s constant improvement. It is a great tool for keeping up on what is happening in the public life of your associates and contacts, and to…
Traffic on I-5 is moving again after police shooting. The guy left his car, and ran off the freeway.
Five XML Security Drafts Published →
The XML Security Working Group has published five working drafts today. XML Signature 2.0, Canonical XML 2.0 and the XML Signature Streamable Profile of XPath 1.0 are part of an ongoing…