This week: Happy Birthday World Wide Web! #web25

W3C and HTML5 related Twitter trends

[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.)]

• (4.6K) Twitter’s tweet: “Happy birthday, @Web25! Celebrate + protect the open web by visiting https://www.w3.org/webat25/ #web25”
• (2.1K) The Times’ tweet: "‘Many will cancel their Web subscriptions & go back to watching television.’ – The Times, 1996 #web25 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiioAtACcAAkYto.jpg"
• (1.1K) Google’s tweet: “The web is 25 today! We can’t imagine the world without it. Sign up now to protect it: https://www.google.com/takeaction/ #Web25 pic.twitter.com/0RRjOijRTY”
  • The URI tweeted was shared 312K times on Twitter.
• (853) CERN’s tweet: “World Wide Web born at CERN 25 years ago #web25 home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/”
  • The URI tweeted was shared 1.5K times on Twitter.
• (508) Pew Research: The Web at 25
• (675) Firefox’s tweet: “Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web! #Web25”
• (402) Web25 tweet: “The Web is 25 today! Get involved in shaping its future and send your birthday messages via #Web25 and visit https://www.w3.org/webat25/”
  • The URI tweeted was shared 4.7K times on Twitter.
• (335) Web25 tweet: “Happy birthday World Wide Web! https://www.w3.org/webat25/ is now live; tune in for a video of @timberners_lee, greetings, events, etc. #web25”
• (277) The Webby Awards’ tweet: “Today at 3pm ET @timberners_lee is doing a @reddit AMA in honor of the WWW's birthday - http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2091d4/i_am_tim_bernerslee_i_invented_the_www_25_years/ #web25”
  • The URI tweeted was shared 3.6K times on Twitter.
• (197) Google’s tweet featuring TimBL’s post: “On the 25th anniversary of the web, its inventor @tim_bernerslee reflects on its past, present & future http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-25th-anniversary-of-web-lets-keep-it.html #web25”
  • The URI tweeted was shared 4.4K times on Twitter.
• (280) W3C News: Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
• (30) Spec: HTML Imports Draft Published
• (22) Felix Sasaki’s tweet: “And now really: @w3c at cebit. We need standards so that the web of data + web of things really can take off! pic.twitter.com/48QMsRo1V4”

Net Neutrality & Open Web

• The Guardian: A partial history of the open web, in snakes and ladders form, 12 March 2014
• Google, Guest blog post by Tim Berners-Lee: On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open, 12 March 2014

W3C in the Press

125 articles in the past two weeks. 114 were about #web25, from USA, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Argentina, Nicaragua, Brazil, Greece.

Below is a selection of the most relevant. Find keywords on our Press clippings.

• ZDNet (12 March), W3C boss Jeff Jaffe explains how the web will beat smartphone apps and keep growing
• The Guardian (12 March), An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web
• CNN (12 March), Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs its freedom
• NYTimes.com | Bits (11 March), As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future
• Gigaom (12 March), 25 years after inventing the web, Tim Berners-Lee invites users to help draft global “bill of rights”
• Time (12 March), The Web at 25: Revisiting Tim Berners-Lee’s Amazing Proposal
• Forbes (6 March), The Future Of The Web Is Audible
• Betanews (28 February), Chrome 34 Beta introduces hands-free Voice Search
• ZDNet (28 February), Where is interoperability for social media?