This week at W3C: Open Data promotion in Japan, RDF is 15 and RDF 1.1 became a Rec, Microsoft to implement WebDriver, etc.

This is the 21-28 February 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends" that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media.

W3C and HTML5 buzz in Twitter

[What was tweeted frequently, or caught my attention. Most recent first (popularity is flagged with a figure —number of times the same URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.)]

• (111) ITmedia Japan: Sabae City leads Open Data promotion in 24 Japanese cities, and first member of local government to join W3C.
• (48) Browser testing & tools WG meeting: Microsoft to ship a WebDriver implementation from IE 11+
• (50) Spec: RDF 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation
• (29) MWC14: #HTML5 ? We are a believer [picture of W3C booth]
• (200) MWC14: Mozilla signs a deal to make the world’s cheapest smartphone: $25 Firefox OS device with 3.5” screen and HTML5 apps
• (33)MWC14: W3C at Mobile World Congress - Booth 8.1G15
• (14) Celebration: 15th anniversary of RDF
• (148) Mozilla: Wanted: Awesome HTML5 app ports for Firefox OS & the Open Web</a

Net Neutrality & Open Web

• Knight Foundation: Toward a stronger Internet, 27 February 2014
• Gigaom: Europe’s net neutrality law gets breathing space as industry committee delays vote, 25 February 2014
• Gigaom: Marc Andreessen says more net neutrality laws are not the answer, 24 February 2014
• Reuters: Netflix to pay Comcast for faster speeds, 24 February 2014

W3C in the Press (or blogs)

10 articles this week. Find keywords on our Press clippings.

• CircleID (26 February), Papers Now Available Publicly for W3C/IAB "Strengthening the Internet" Workshop
• Heise online (26 February), W3C aktualisiert Metadatenformat RDF (W3C updated RDF metadata format)
• The Telegraph (25 February), 25 years of the World Wide Web: 25 Web superstars
• Genbeta (25 February), ¿Qué ha sido de HTML5? (What has become of HTML5?)
• The Register (25 February), Evil or benign? 'Trusted proxy' draft debate rages on
• Faro de Vigo (25 February), MWC14: Gallegos en la meca sundial de la tecnología (MWC14: Galician in the world mecca of technology)
• ZDNet (24 February), Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser for the multi-core age
• phoneArena.com (23 February), Mozilla signs a deal to make the world’s cheapest smartphone: Firefox OS device with 3.5” screen and HTML5 apps
• La Stampa (21 February), Il future della governance di Internet post Datagate: il Brasile dà l’esempio (The future of Internet governance after Datagate: Brazil leads the way)