Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: Web Cryptography API, W3C role in standardizing the Open Web Platform, etc.

This is the 21-28 March 2014 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 trends
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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.)]

* (56) Last Call: Web Cryptography API
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3755>

* (53) Web25 Blog: The role of the W3C in standardizing the Open Web  
Platform, by Jeff Jaffe
<http://www.webat25.org/news/jeff-jaffe-web25-w3c20-part2>

* (932) #w3cpayment: W3C Workshop on Web Payments, 24-25 March 2014
<http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/>

* (130) Christian Heilmann: Do HTML5 apps have to be online all the time?
<http://christianheilmann.com/2014/03/23/do-html5-apps-have-to-be-online-all-the-time/>


2) Open Web & net neutrality
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* Techdirt: Brazil's 'Marco Civil' Internet Civil Rights Law Finally  
Passes, With Key Protections Largely Intact, 27 March 2014
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140326/09012226690/brazils-marco-civil-internet-civil-rights-law-finally-passes-with-key-protections-largely-intact.shtml>

* Gigaom: AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega thinks Netflix, not customers, should  
pay for capacity upgrades, 25 March 2014
<http://gigaom.com/2014/03/25/atts-ralph-de-la-vega-thinks-netflix-not-customers-should-pay-for-capacity-upgrades/>

* Mozilla Hacks: Better integration for open web apps on Android, 20 March  
2014
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/03/better-integration-for-open-web-apps-on-android/>


3) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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6 articles this week. A selection follows.

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


    Half full or half empty? HTML5's mixed outlook
    InfoWorld (24 March)
    http://www.infoworld.com/t/html5/half-full-or-half-empty-html5s-mixed-outlook-238915


    The W3C makes Accessible Rich Internet Applications a web standard
    IT World (24 March)
    http://www.itworld.com/application-management/410963/w3c-makes-accessible-rich-internet-applications-web-standard


    Should anyone worry about the US ceding control of the Internet?
    CNBC (22 March)
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/101511988



-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Friday, 28 March 2014 15:04:13 UTC