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
Summary Linked data continues its mainstream roll out, with the annoucment of the Google Knowledge Graph, becoming part of standard search results. The “Linked Data Platform” WG has been chartered, and will hopefully provide a solid framework for RWW … Continue reading
