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#!: This Time It’s Personal

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 10, 2011 Posted in W3C, Web 2 Comments

It’s time to have a serious talk about #!. If you’re a sharp-eyed Web user, it will not have escaped your attention that, for many Web sites (Twitter among them), the characters #! have started to appear in the address …

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Can I Share Something With You?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on April 26, 2011 Posted in Web 2 Comments

I’m fed up with the state of online (and offline) “sharing.” I’m talking about the experience of seeing something you like and sharing that sentiment (and a suitable URI*) with a community you care about (your Twitter followers, for example). …

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Digital Parenting

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 25, 2011 Posted in Kids, Web 1 Comment

Late last year, I was asked to write an article for a “digital parenting” magazine produced by my employer, Vodafone. I was asked to write about (positive) trends I see in the future – I chose to focus on  the …

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Boris’s Bikes and Open Data

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on August 17, 2010 Posted in London, mobile 2.0, Web 2.0 3 Comments

photo credit: Charlotte Gilhooly I’m an early adopter, or possibly a serial alpha tester. I’m always willing to give something new a go, especially when it comes to new ways to get around my city, London. I was first off …

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Can I Have a Word in Private?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 10, 2010 Posted in Web 4 Comments Tagged with denopticon, Facebook, lift10, MobileWeb, privacy, W3C

Photo credit: Rob Pongsajapan. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Lift conference and helping to run a workshop on user privacy. This was a workshop with a difference. My colleague Franco Papeschi came up with the idea …

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The Meetingless Project?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 26, 2010 Posted in Web 2 Comments Tagged with googlewave

Meetings! We all hate them. Sometimes they are necessary. But what if you could minimize the number of meetings (and in particular status meetings) necessary to keep a project moving in the right direction. When I’m running a project, especially …

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Should Data Take-Down be a Right?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 21, 2009 Posted in W3C, Web 2.0 2 Comments Tagged with socialweb, W3C

Interesting post over at Mashable today about the failure of many social network sites to take down personal images even after the user has explicitly “deleted” them. The issue of data take-down is one we’ve started discussing in the W3C …

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W3C to Run Online Mobile Web Training Course

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 2, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 3 Comments Tagged with Mobile, MobileWeb, MWI, Training, W3C, Web

W3C are producing an online training course for mobile Web developers: “An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices” which will run from May 26 to June 20 2008. This will be a great chance to get more information on …

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Reflections on the Mobile Web in Korea

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 13, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 1 Comment Tagged with MobileWednesday, MWI, Seoul

I was very lucky this past week to have been invited to Seoul (along with the other members of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices, Device Descriptions and Ubiquitous Web working groups) to participate in something that came to be …

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Famous in Korea!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 4, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 1 Comment Tagged with ETNews, Korea, MobileWeb, MWI, Seoul, W3C

François Daoust of W3C and I were interviewed by the Korean press about the work of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices working group.  Unfortunately,  the article hasn’t been translated so I have no idea what they said about us, …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

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