Summary A quiet start to 2017 as people prepare for www 2017 and ESWC. An active political quarter saw the inauguration of a US new president, and numerous concerns raised about new laws regarding the privacy at the ISP level. … Continue reading
Summary A relatively quiet quarter in world of (read-write) web standards. Generally my impression is that the emphasis is shifting more towards implementation, with most of the hard parts of design out, now of the way. Andrei gave a great … Continue reading
Summary Q2 was a relatively quiet, yet has seen quite a bit of progress. Some work is being done on the EU INSPIRE directive and ESWC took place in Slovenia with some interesting demos. One that caught the eye was … Continue reading
Summary The web ponders moving further towards SSL, with the W3C TAG publishing a draft finding on how this could be more easily achieved. There was a great review by the EFF on progress, as well as some interesting suggestions … Continue reading
Summary This month The Web celebrated its 25th birthday. Celebrating on web25 Tim Berners-Lee poses 3 important questions. 1. How do we connect the nearly two-thirds of the planet who can’t yet access the Web? 2. Who has the right … Continue reading
Earlier this month RWW.IO was launched, to much positive feedback. In this post I will show how RWW.IO can be used to extend your FOAF file to become a distributed microblog. *Disclaimer* this tutorial is for advanced users that may … Continue reading
Summary Further privacy issues emerged, this month, across the internet, as the extent to which data is monitored has encompassed more than was previously reported. The web has been awash with concerns, including reports that even passwords can at times … Continue reading
Last week, we looked at how to create a new tabulator pane. The first part was just a template, without any real content. This time we will look at how to add a pane for a specific object type and … Continue reading
Last time, we looked at how to install The Tabulator as a Firefox extension. Although tabulator can also run as a chrome extension or a JavaScript shim, one advantage of the approach outlined is that you can dive in to … Continue reading
Summary It was exactly ten years ago, that Richard MacManus wrote his seminal article entitled, ‘The Read/Write Web‘. In a time when ‘weblogs’ were a new phenomenon, and Facebook and Twitter were but twinkles in their founder’s eyes, it’s very … Continue reading
