Tim Berners Lee
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A billion Internet users can be wrong
Insight commentary Global Internet usage reached over one billion unique visitors in December, according to ComScore. However, the Web is not the Net.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Wireless, Tim Berners-Lee, Foresight, Internet User, ComScore Networks Inc., Earth, Internet, Geneva
Will 2008 prove the year the Web grew up?
Insight perspective After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dotcom crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Opera exec.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Document Object Model, W3C, CSS, HTML 4, HTML 5 Specification, JavaScript
Industry group issues privacy standard
News The World Wide Web Consortium has endorsed P3P, a new standard for privacy online.
British PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
News U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown enlists father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, to help drive opening up of access to government data in the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister, technique, WWW, Web, Web sites
Cern celebrates 20 years of the Web
News At an event at the European Centre for Nuclear Research, Berners-Lee acknowledged the role of the center on the development of the World Wide Web 20 years earlier.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, Next Computer, scientist, Web Site, WWW, Web, Internet
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by Web users, according to Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Tags: Web sites, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Semantic Web, data mining, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, photograph, desktop, built-In
Berners-Lee unveils scheme to achieve 'One Web'
News Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has launched the World Wide Web Foundation, an initiative with the mission of spreading the Web to developing countries.
Tags: Web sites, Tim Berners-Lee, developing country, News.com, leader, Internet, blog, collaboration, Washington D.C., Benefit
Apple gets higher profile in HTML standardization
News Group standardizing the fast-changing language of Web pages now has three leaders, and an Apple manager occupies the new seat.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Browser Company, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, Web Application, co-chair, Web
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News The New Year's honors list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic Web.
Tags: Web sites, Government, Benefits, Semantic Web, Hypermedia, Information And Communication Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer, Wendy Hall
Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News The behavioral ad-serving technology company has announced a content-serving product
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Technology, Web Page, British Telecommunications, Tim Berners-Lee, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., network, Internet Service Provider
Berners-Lee says no to Internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web calls deep packet inspection the electronic equivalent of opening people's mail.
Tags: Data security, Diagnostics and monitoring, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Government, Advertisement, Internet Service, Deep Packet Inspection, CEO, U.K.
UK to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
News The U.K. government's proposed Interception Modernisation Programme would enforce tracking and retention of all U.K. citizens' Web communications, including IM conversations.
Tags: Privacy, Mobile platforms/communications, MySpace, Traffic Data, data retention, Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo, Government, Internet Service, IMP
Semantic Web breaking out of the lab
News Semantic Web technology is on the verge of becoming commercially viable for businesses looking to develop their Web capabilities.
Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Semantic Web, Yahoo! Inc., Database, Tim Berners-Lee, search engine company, Silicon.com, billing, R&D
Berners-Lee and friends promote Web science study
News The study of Web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future development of the World Wide Web.
Tags: Web sites, Google Inc., Tim Berners-Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Silicon.com, Eric Schmidt, network, professor, knowledge, technique
Print news is fading, but the content lives on
News A Pew survey shows the Internet has overtaken newspapers as a main source of news, but newspapers still supply much of the seed news content that's refactored by millions of bloggers.
Tags: Internet, Web sites, News, CNN, TV, Real Estate, Survey, Programming, financial, revenue
