Stuart Glendinning Hall (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Notes from Mia Ridge at the Nesta event, 'The Future of the Web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee', held in London on July 8, 2008: http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2008/07/future-of-web-with-sir-tim-berners-lee.html TBL's slides. BTW they're not working properly at the moment in IE7. Nice to see she's got a professional interest in museums too.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Researchers have a "duty" to protect the future of the world wide web, according to its inventor. Speaking at the launch of a new research programme yesterday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee - the British computer scientist who came up with the idea of the web 19 years ago - said it was vital that scientists and engineers worked harder to understand how the web works, in order to keep it evolving. "We designed...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is credited with the invention of the world wide web, is now looking ahead to a new and more sophisticated way of using the internet known as the semantic web.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Why are you advocating the study of 'web science'? There are lots of people currently in different disciplines who are looking at the web, and they're realising that it's big and its complex. There are arguably more web pages out there than neurons in the brain. And while the web is growing, the brain is getting smaller. The web is big, it's complex, we don't understand it - but we do depend upon...
Perfect Path (Free subscription) | yesterday
NESTA keep setting them up and we keep falling for them. This evening Tim Berners-Lee, y’know, clever chappy - invented this web thing that I’m using to write to you, got the Order of Merit no less, was speaking on the Future of the Web and in particular his Web Science Research Initiative - trying [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Father of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, talks to Kylie Morris .
Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The Web must remain an open platform, says Sir Tim Berners Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Government, business and academics must do more to ensure the Web remains an open platform, says Sir Tim Berners Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web.
Online Public Relations Thoughts (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
If you read about technology trends, you will have heard about the Semantic web and the effort the web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is making to create it. It turns out that the Semantic web has potential applications in PR because of its ability to link data across web pages and databases. While the name sounds formidable, the ideas underlying it are not so hard when you get into them. This article...
Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | yesterday
Government, business and academics must do more to ensure the web remains an open platform, says Sir Tim Berners Lee.
Computing.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 8 July 2008 at 10:25:00 Tim Berners-Lee calls for action to take full advantage of the web's growth and to maintain its openness Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for action to ensure that the internet stays open and is easy to use....
Johnnie Moore's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In preparation for a visit by Tim Berners-Lee, the folks at NESTA asked people via twitter to send in short statements of their best hopes and worst fears for the future of the internet. Then they generated these two clouds: (Disclosure - I'm doing some work for NESTA at the moment)
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls on governments to make sure the web stays open and accessible.
OS News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the Web now that it no longer resembles Tim Berners-Lee's early vision: Is the Web still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? If the content can't be indexed and searched? If you can't view source? In other words, McAllister writes, if today's RIAs no longer resemble the 'Web,' then should we be shoehorning them into the Web's infrastructure,...
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
snydeq writes “Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee’s early vision has been supplanted by today’s much more complex model. AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Flash and Silverlight all have McAllister asking, ‘Is [the Web] still the Web if you can’t navigate directly to specific content? [...]
InfoWorld Daily (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
When Tim Berners-Lee first envisioned the Web he saw it primarily as an information storage and retrieval system. That is gradually being replaced by a much more complex model, where rich Internet apps are supplanting static HTML pages and old notions of what it means to browse the Web are being challenged. Is it really still the Web, Neil McAllister asks in today's Fatal Exception blog, "if it's not...
