Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Founder of the Web, today announced the formation of the new World Wide Web Foundation which seeks to:
1. to advance One Web that is free and open
2. to expand the Web’s capability and robustness
3. to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet
The Web Foundation will reach its objectives by funding projects around the world through the following strategically integrated programs: Web Science and Research, Web Technology and Practice, and Web for Society.
In an interview with the BBC, Berners-Lee said:
Alongside this role it will More»

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Inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee,  says that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is falling behind other browsers - such as Firefox,  Safari, and others - in the support of scalable vector graphics (SVG). “If you look around at browsers, you’ll find that most of them support scalable vector graphics. I’ll let you figure out which one has been slow in supporting SVG.” said Berners-Lee.
SVG image files scale without degrading in image quality and resolution. Maps are popularly created as SVG file formats. Currently, the IE browser, including More»

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The world wide web celebrated its 15th anniversary yesterday, April 30. It was back on this day in 1993 that the web was put in the public domain by CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire or European Council for Nuclear Research). In doing so, CERN renounced IP rights to the web but no one else could claim them either.
The world wide web was created by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1989. The initial project was dubbed ENQUIRE (referring to Enquire Within Upon Everything, More»

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The web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC News that the world wide web is “still in its infancy”. Sir Berners-Lee was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web’s code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was developed.
The future web will put “all the data in the world” at the fingertips of every user, Sir Tim said.
“The web has been a tremendous tool for people to do a lot of good even though you can find bad stuff out there.”
Making the web free to use More»

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Tim Berners-Lee, the top candidate for “inventing the internet”, noted the coming power of the semantic web in a recent interview. Berners-Lee gave the following provocative example of the kind of functionality we’ll see when our online data stream starts to link with other data, and applications are built that can leverage all this new connectivity:
“Imagine if two completely separate things — your bank statements and your calendar — spoke the same language and could share information with one another. You could drag one on top of the other and a whole bunch of dots More»

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