Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: DRM in HTML5, Google Web Designer in beta, W3C@19, etc.

This is the 27 September - 4 October 2013 edition of a “weekly digest of  
W3C news and trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C  
Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived [1])  
[sent separately]. This digest aggregates information about W3C from  
online media, a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online  
media.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/


1) W3C and HTML5 related Twitter buzz
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[Things that were tweeted frequently, things that caught my attention, etc.
  Most *recent* first (popularity is flagged with the figure between  
parenthesis —that is the number of times the same URIs or tweet was  
quoted/RTed.]


* (110) HTML5 Rocks Tutorials: requestAutocomplete - take my money, not my  
time, by Jake Archibald
<http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/requestautocomplete/>

* (1.5K) Boing Boing: W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards,  
says it's OK for your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"
<http://boingboing.net/2013/10/02/w3c-green-lights-adding-drm-to.html>

* (1K) EFF: Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standards>

* (200) ALA W3C Column: Performance Matters, by Jatinder Mann
<http://alistapart.com/column/performance-matters>

* (7.9K) Google Launches Public Beta of Web Designer
<http://www.google.com/webdesigner/>

* (67) 19th birthday of the W3C
<https://twitter.com/w3c/status/385331897762455552>



2) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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18 articles this week. Highlights:
  * DRM in HTML5 (7 articles, in Russian, French, Dutch, English)
  * Google launches public beta of Web Designer

A selection follows.

[Most recent first.
  title, source (date), link.
  Find keywords on our Press clippings page:  
http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]


    Statement from OpenStand on the Strengths of the OpenStand Principles
    OpenStand (3 October)
    http://open-stand.org/statement-from-openstand-on-the-strengths-of-the-openstand-principles/


    Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C
    Electronic Frontier Foundation (2 October)
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standards


    W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards, says it's OK for  
your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"
    Boing Boing (2 October)
    http://boingboing.net/2013/10/02/w3c-green-lights-adding-drm-to.html


    See - and hear - what it was like to surf the web 20 years ago
    ITworld (1 October)
    http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/375818/see-and-hear-what-it-was-surf-web-20-years-ago


    Google launches public beta of Web Designer, a free design tool for  
creating HTML5 ads and campaigns
    The Next Web (30 September)
    http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/09/30/google-launches-public-beta-of-web-designer-a-design-tool-for-creating-html5-ads-and-campaigns/


    New California law may push other Do Not Track efforts
    The Hill's Hillicon Valley (30 September)
    http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/325597-new-california-law-may-push-other-do-not-track-efforts-


    Building disaster-relief phone apps on the fly
    MIT News (30 September)
    http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/building-disaster-relief-phone-apps-0930.html


    HTML5 is the Future of Book Authorship
    Forbes (28 September)
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2013/09/28/html5-is-the-future-of-book-authorship/


-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +33643220001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

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