Ilya Zhitomirskiy: In Memoriam
It is with overwhelming sadness that we recognize the passing of Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of the Diaspora project and member of the Federated Social Web XG.
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The W3C Social Business Jam is a few days away!
There’s been a lot of discussion on how the social web is changing business. One of the challenges slowing down the adoption of social web is due to a lack of cross-industry interoperability, as social business is still in its early stages. Open standards are one way the industry can overcome this challenge. As the W3C is one of the organizations working to help, we've decided to host an event to determine future directions for standardizing the social web for business-driven use-cases. The all online W3C Social Business Jam runs from Nov 8-10th (Tuesday through Thursday) and you have to register to participate.
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What’s in the pipe for Web and TV?
HTML5 goes some way to bringing media to the Web but additional requirements need to be addressed for use in commercial video provider services. The Media Pipeline Task Force is to clarify these requirements and propose extensions to HTML media elements.
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Workshop Tackles the Hard Problem of Identity in the Browser
Today's approaches for managing trusted identities online, social networking, security, and privacy are uneven and at times incompatible. Tackling this market fragmentation, the W3C organized the Identity in the Browser workshop on 24-25 May in Mountain View (California, USA).
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Web Tracking and User Privacy Workshop: Test Cases for Privacy on the Web
The level of interest and participation in last month's Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy - about a hundred attendees spanning multiple countries, dozens of companies, a wide variety of backgrounds - confirms the broad interest in Do Not Track. These discussions are test cases for how we will handle privacy on the Web and how standards can address complex issues involving both technology and policy.
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Government Data Done Well and the Digital Agenda for Europe
Last October, the European Commission invited to an unlikely unconference: What ideas did the larger community have that would help to drive the Digital Agenda for Europe forward? Our addition: Government Data Done Well.
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Web Tracking and User Privacy: The Next Steps
There's a lot of movement about Web Tracking and User Privacy lately, and it's been almost two weeks since the last update. Time to look at what's been happening in the last two weeks.
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Do Not Track at W3C
The discussion about online tracking has picked up a lot of steam over the last year. We have seen multiple related features announced or deployed in various Web browsers, including Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 9. Today, we have acknowledged a "Web Tracking Protection" member submission from Microsoft. We invite public discussion on the public-privacy@w3.org mailing list. Additionally, we are announcing a W3C workshop for a broader community discussion, to determine whether (and if so, what) standards work W3C should take up in the space. The workshop will be held in Princeton, NJ, on 28/29 April.
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A toucan describedby data
An intense discussion on the Linked Open Data mailing list has lead to at least two distinct outcomes: a proposal for a new way to resolve URIs identifying non-information resources without losing the important distinction from information that describes them; and a correction to an ambiguity in the specification of wdrs:describedby.
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SVG Training at W3C (early bird ends Friday 1st October)
The early bird period for the new W3C online training course 'Introduction to SVG' ends this Friday, 1st October.
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