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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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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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Why am I Going to Korea?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 2, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 2 Comments Tagged with Korea, mobile2.0, MobileWeb, MWI, W3C

I’m sitting in the Korean Airlines lounge in Narita (Tokyo) airport after an 11 hour flight from London, watching a seemingly endless succession of JAL 747s taking off. When I arrived, there were no promised uniformed agents showing me the …

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W3C Releases Mobility / Accessibility Draft

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 24, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C No Comments Tagged with MobileWeb, MWI, W3C, wai

In June 2005, I wrote in these pages about an issue I knew we were going to have to grapple with in the Mobile Web Best Practices group that we were then kicking off. What is the intersection of mobility …

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Mobile Internet World

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 13, 2007 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C No Comments Tagged with futureofmobile, mobileinternetworld, MobileWeb, W3C

I just spoke at Mobile Internet World here in Boston (as part of the W3C Mobile Web Standards track). Being part of this event brought me back to the first “Internet World” conference I ever attended in, wait for it, …

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Something WICD This Way Comes

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 23, 2007 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C No Comments Tagged with MobileWeb, OperaMobile, W3C, WICD

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Well, thumb-surfers the world over took a step closer to being able to experience rich Mobile Web applications last week with the release of the Web Integration Compound Document …

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3GSM: Tim Berners-Lee’s Keynote

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 12, 2007 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 1 Comment Tagged with 3gsm

It’s 10:00 on Monday and Tim Berners-Lee has just delivered his keynote address. The key message: the Web is an open platform and an enabling technology layer and as the Web moves into the mobile platform (“convergence”), we need to …

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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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