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Report from Bellevue: meaningful advances on Do Not Track
As mentioned last week, the difficult and at times controversial discussion of Do Not Track standardization continued with a three-day meeting of the Tracking Protection Working Group in Bellevue, Washington. I want to report briefly on the course of discussion and the progress made, including meaningful advances towards consensus on Do Not Track.
Filed by Nick Doty on June 26, 2012 5:30 AM in Conference, Privacy
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Implementing ADMS and the Core Vocabularies
The European Commission has been funding work on developing a number of vocabularies designed to help improve data interoperability, particularly in the public sector. Time to see those vocabularies in action and, in the vernacular of the day, eat some dog food.
Filed by Phil Archer on June 25, 2012 2:15 PM in Semantic Web, eGov
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Tracking Controversy
The Web has transformed how we do business, how we interact, and how we innovate. As a result, the future of Web technology can be a high-stakes conversation. When stakeholders with strong competing interests engage in that conversation, controversy is...
Filed by Thomas Roessler on June 20, 2012 1:40 PM in Privacy
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Interview: Huawei, Maxthon, Qihoo 360, UC Web, and the Chinese Browser Perspective
At W3C's Membership meeting in May, An Qi (Angel) Li of the W3C China Office organized a panel of Chinese browser vendors. The panel generated a lot of excitement among meeting participants and so I asked for a follow-up...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on June 14, 2012 2:45 AM in Interviews
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Mobile Web Training in Spanish
A lot of course material out there is in English. Within W3C's online training for Web developers program, also known as W3DevCampus, we are proud to launch a complete online training package in Spanish associated with the "Mobile Web 1"...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on June 7, 2012 5:46 PM in Mobile, Training, Web of Devices
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The long journey to RDFa 1.1...
RDFa 1.1 Core, RDFa 1.1 Lite, and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 have just been published as Web Standards, i.e., W3C Recommendations, accompanied by a new edition of the RDFa Primer. Although it is “merely” and update of the previous RDFa 1.0 standard...
Filed by Ivan Herman on June 7, 2012 2:24 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology
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W3C and Internet Governance
I'd like to take the opportunity of my (but not W3C!) leaving a "board seat" on the UN/IGF MAG after 5 years of service to make a short report on our presence in this forum, and introduce our new W3C...
Filed by Daniel Dardailler on June 7, 2012 11:29 AM in W3C Life
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Back from the Sud Web 2012 conference and élaboratoire
A little over a week ago, I attended Sud Web, a regional conference for people who work in Web site development: front- and back-end developers, designers, project leaders, consultants, educators, etc. The language is French and the audience comes mainly...
Filed by Bert Bos on June 5, 2012 6:36 PM in CSS, Conference, Meetings, Open Web, Web Design
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