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Outcomes from Headlights 2013
In January I blogged about Headlights 2013, part of our annual exercise to identify major new strategic directions for W3C. The timetable for the 10 task forces included several months of project development, presentations during the June Membership meeting in...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on August 28, 2013 1:51 PM in CEO
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Enabling new types of web user experiences
There appears to be lots of detailed discussion of how the web can be improved but little agreement on consolidated goals. This document is an opinionated attempt to discuss how interactive web pages could be experienced, articulating the well understood direction, mimicking native apps, but also pointing out two new directions that native apps have little chance to solve.
Filed by Scott Jenson on August 28, 2013 5:49 AM in Mobile, Opinions and Editorial, Usability, Web of Devices
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Event Report: Test The Web Forward Shanghai Aug 17-18 2013
Test The Web Forward (Shanghai) was successfully co-organized by W3C, Adobe and Baidu on Aug 17-18 2013 Shanghai, China. After the first Test The Web Forward event in Beijing, more passion was raised from the developers community to this specification...
Filed by Angel Li on August 27, 2013 7:44 AM in Testing
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Interview: Alcatel-Lucent on WebRTC with Anne Lee
W3C and IETF are standardizing WebRTC technology to bring real-time communications to Web applications. Recently I spoke with Anne Lee, CTO, Advanced Communications Solutions Innovations and Bell Labs Fellow at Alcatel-Lucent about their experience with the emerging standard. Ian: How...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on August 20, 2013 2:29 PM in Interviews
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Interview: YarcData on Big Data and Semantic Web with Shoaib Mufti
I recently spoke with Shoaib Mufti, YarcData Vice President of R&D, about Big Data and Semantic Web technology. YarcData is Cray subsidiary, accustomed to crunching lots of data. YarcData recently joined W3C. Ian: Why did YarcData join W3C? SM:...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on August 11, 2013 8:19 PM in Interviews, Semantic Web
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News from the Automotive and Web Platform Business Group
The Automotive and Web Platform Business Group is active, even during this period of vacations. Now that QNX has contributed its API proposal (joining proposals from Genivi, Tizen and Webinos), the group has started to look into merging and harmonizing...
Filed by Bernard Gidon on August 9, 2013 8:35 AM in Automotive, Community and Business Groups, Technology
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W3C Highlights
W3C today has 50 Working Groups, 15 Interest Groups, 132 Community Groups and 3 Business Groups. We are engaged in a growing number of developer relations activities and liaisons with dozens of other organizations to help improve the Web. We...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on August 1, 2013 7:26 PM in CEO
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