- From: Amy van der Hiel <amy@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:14:17 -0400
- To: public-w3c-digest@w3.org
- Cc: Amy van der Hiel <amy@w3.org>, Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
This is the 18- 24 August 2015 edition of the "weekly digest of news and trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/ 1) W3C, Web and HTML5 related Twitter trends ==================================== [What was tweeted frequently, caught my attention, etc. - with most *popular* first (popularity in this context via the Topsy “more” notes relevance count)] 21 August 2015 @nind W3C establish online payment standards including #bitcoin bitcoinmagazine.com/21644/world-wi… https://twitter.com/Nind/status/634652183783469056 (with 240 more interactions) 20 August 2015 Hacker News @hntweets Front-end Developer needed for new MIT/W3C project: crosscloud.org/jobs/ Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100935… https://twitter.com/HNTweets/status/634424669643259904 (with 77 more interactions) 20 August 2015 @stevefaulkner Low vision accessibility task force formed w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vis… #a11y @w3c https://twitter.com/stevefaulkner/status/634301907855613952 (with 7 more interactions) 20 August 2015 @torgo TPE to CR: Advancing the conversation about Web tracking preferences, by Wendy Seltzer w3.org/blog/2015/08/t… #DNT https://twitter.com/w3c/status/634484320934187008 (with 5 more interactions) 2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality) ================================== * To Safeguard Innovation, the Internet Must Stay Open To All 18 August 2015 TLE Online by Joe Mellor http://tle-online.com/tech-auto/to-safeguard-innovation-the-internet-must-stay-open-to-all/18/08 * Whose Net? 19 August 2015 Indian Express by Nishant Shah http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/whose-net/ 3) W3C and W3C technologies in the Press (or blogs) ========================================= 1 article [Most recent first. Find keywords on our Press clippings page: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ] * World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Leads W3C to Establish Online Payment Standards Including Bitcoin 20 August 2015 Bitcoin Magazine by Giulio Prisco. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21644/world-wide-web-creator-tim-berners-lee-leads-w3c-establish-online-payment-standards-including-bitcoin/ excerpt: [[Internet pioneers such as Ted Nelson, Marc Andreessen and Berners-Lee himself thought that the Internet should have a built-in framework for micropayments. Berners-Lee tried to include micropayments in Web protocols, but the idea hasn’t been implemented so far. “In the late 1990s Berners-Lee tried to develop a micropayments system for the Web through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),” reported Walter Isaacson in his 2014 book “The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” The idea was to devise a way to embed in a Web page the information needed to handle a small payment, which would allow different electronic wallet services to be created by banks or entrepreneurs. “It was never implemented, partly because of the changing complexity of banking regulations,” noted Isaacson… A possible explanation for the more timid approach of the W3C is that the organization prefers to distance itself from the more controversial aspects of bitcoin, including the possibility of private and semi-anonymous transactions, and wait for “sanitized” versions of bitcoin.]] -- Amy van der Hiel World Wide Web Consortium Massachusetts Institute of Technology 32 Vassar Street, G532 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA phone: +1.617.253.5628 amy@w3.org
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