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  • The War For the Web - O'Reilly Radar on 2009-11-22
    • But it's also a sign just how competitive the web is getting, and just how powerful Google is getting, because they understand that "data is the Intel Inside" of the next generation of computer applications.
  • Why Tim O'Reilly Sees Microsoft as a Proponent of the Open Web on 2009-11-21
    • At the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly predicts that Microsoft will emerge as a leading proponent of the open Web, despite the company's tradition of fostering its own proprietary operating systems and development languages. O'Reilly says Microsoft's recent deals to index Twitter tweets and use Wolfram Alpha's APIs for computational data show a shift in its willingness to work with other Web companies. Moreover, the Windows Azure cloud computing operating system is designed to work with open-source technology.
  • Exploring HTML 5's Audio/Video Multimedia Support on 2009-11-21

    • Because HTML 4.0 essentially was a "frozen" version, the specific mechanism for displaying content has been very much format dependent (e.g., Apple QuickTime Movies and Flash video) and usually relies upon tags with varying parameters for passing the relevant information to the server. As a result, video and audio embedding on web pages has become something of a black art .

      Its perhaps not surprising then that the <audio> and <video> tags were among the first features to be added to the HTML 5 specification, and these seem to be the first elements of the HTML 5 specification that browser vendors implemented. These particular elements are intended to enable the browser to work with both types of media in an easy-to-use manner. An included support API gives users finer-grained control.

    • Theoretically, the <video> and <audio> elements should be able to handle most of the codecs currently in use. In practice, however, the browsers that do currently support these elements do so only for the open source Ogg Vorbis and Theora standards.
  • Universities reject Kindle over inaccessibility for the blind | Crave - CNET on 2009-11-13
    • The National Federation of the Blind is applauding the decisions of Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison not to Amazon.com's Kindle DX as a textbook replacement.

    • ity of Wisconsin-Madison not to Amazon.com's Kindle DX as a textbook replacement.



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      The universities cited the Kindle's inaccessibility to the blind as the problem.

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  • Rich Web Client Activity Statement on 2009-11-11
    • The CDF Working Group remains in hibernation pending an updated implementation report. No significant Team resources are be dedicated to this Working Group, other than coordination with implementers as progress is made. Since there is currently good progress on implementation, the expectation is that these specifications will proceed to Recommendation status, and the CDF WG will be closed.
  • Google adds bookmark sync to Chrome browser on 2009-11-06
    • Google upgraded the beta version of its Chrome browser yesterday, adding integrated bookmark synchronization and boasting of a 30% speed improvement over the current production edition.
    • Bookmark sync requires that all the machines being kept in step run the Chrome beta, and that the user has a Google account, such as a Gmail username and password. The browser syncs bookmarks using Google Docs, the company's Web-based application suite.
  • Devanagari (Hindi) in your domain names on 2009-10-30
    • History has been made today in the world of Internet. ICANN, The body in charge of assigning online addresses, on Friday said, "We had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet". "This is only the first step, but it is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalization of the Internet," ICANN's President and CEO Rod Beckstrom was quoted as saying.
    • History has been made today in the world of Internet. ICANN, The body in charge of assigning online addresses, on Friday said, "We had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet". "This is only the first step, but it is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalization of the Internet," ICANN's President and CEO Rod Beckstrom was quoted as saying.
  • “Windows Management Framework” is here for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, 2008 – Remote Admin Power +10 - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day on 2009-10-30
    • “Windows Management Framework, which includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0, was officially released to the world this morning. By providing a consistent management interface across the various flavors of Windows, we are making our platform that much more attractive to deploy. IT Professionals can now easily manage their Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines through PowerShell remoting
    • Windows Management Framework, which includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0, was officially released to the world this morning.
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  • Microsoft opens Outlook format, gives programs access to mail, calendar, contacts on 2009-10-28
    • Microsoft on Monday said it will provide patent- and license-free use rights to the format behind its Outlook Personal Folders opening e-mail, calendar, contacts and other information to a host of applications such as antimalware or cloud-based services.
    • Documenting and publishing the .pst format could open up entirely new feature sets for programs such as search tools for mining mailboxes for relevant corporate data, new security tools that scan .pst data for malicious software, or e-discovery tools for meeting compliance regulations, according to Microsoft officials.
  • Tech advice from Tim Berners-Lee | Rafe's Radar - CNET News on 2009-10-24
    • "I'm worried about anything large coming in to take control, whether it's large companies or government."

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  • Document Wars

    13 members, 464 items

    Document Wars covers the portable XML document battle between OpenDocument, Office Open XML, and CDF, the W3C's Compound Document Format. The relationship to the Grand Convergence of desktop, server, device and web systems will be decisive, with application independence and universal interoperabili

  • Future of the Web

    91 members, 427 items

    Watching the grand convergence of the desktop, the server, devices, and the Web. Topics addressed include events and emerging trends in universal interoperability, standards development, SOA, Clouds, Web-Stacks, RIA run-times, etc.

  • IBM: Standards and Double Standards

    2 members, 15 items

    While the world's focus has been on Microsoft's misconduct in regard to office document formats, IBM's corresponding misconduct has received little public attention despite being at least equally egregious. This group spotlights IBM misbehavior in regard to office document formats.

  • In-the-Clouds-with-SOA-XML-and-the-Open-Web

    8 members, 97 items

    Discussion of SOA, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Open Web Standards, and the importance of portable XML documents.

  • Open Web

    16 members, 156 items

    Subset of "Future of the Web" group bookmarks targeting Open Web technologies and standards discussions. Focus on Cloud computing, WebKit and the "edge of the Web" revolution in mobile devices. The WebKit visual document model and RiA application layer is based on advanced an ACiD3 compliant HTML+

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