discussion on annotations and abuse, HTML+ARIA conformance checker, Web Payments, Web of Things, W3C and IDPF

This is the 25 April - 2 May 2016 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]. 

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




1) W3C, Web and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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[What was tweeted frequently, caught my attention, etc. -  with most *popular* first  (Note: Topsy has been shut down so we’re now using Twitonomy for a measure of relevance, noting retweets and likes)]


1 May 2016
‏@randileeharper
I've been invited to participate in a discussion involving the new web standard for annotations & how it should be designed to prevent abuse
https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/726533660506103809
(18 retweets 39 likes)
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27 April 2016
@LeonieWatson
Check your HTML + ARIA with the @W3C Nu conformance checker, courtesy of the marvellous @SideShowBarker https://validator.w3.org/nu/ 
https://twitter.com/LeonieWatson/statuses/725288999250710528
(13 Retweets, 15 Likes)


26 April 2016
@cornac_ed
Entramos hoy en el @w3c para trabajar por unos estándares más abiertos, útiles y accesibles en la edición digital.
"Today we join the @w3c to work for a more open, useful and accessible digital publishing standards."
https://twitter.com/cornac_ed/statuses/724970700486926336
(3 Retweets, 5 Likes)





2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality
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*    Celebrating 23 Years of the WWW: How Tim Berners-Lee Open-Sourced the Internet
29 April 2016
Inverse
by Joe Carmichael
https://www.inverse.com/article/14959-celebrating-23-years-of-the-www-how-tim-berners-lee-open-sourced-the-internet




3) W3C and W3C technologies in the Press (or blogs)
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3 articles
[Most recent first. Find keywords on our Press clippings page: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]


*    Bitcoin's Messy Push for Innovation is Winning Over Payments Developers
30 April 2016
CoinDesk
by Bailey Reutzel
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-messy-innovation-payments-innovators/



*    Industrial Communication Organizations Embrace the Cloud
27 April 2016
Automation World
by David Greenfield
http://www.automationworld.com/all/industrial-communication-organizations-embrace-cloud



*   W3C Publishes First Public Working Drafts of Payment Specifications
25 April 2016
Programmable Web
by  Janet Wagner
http://www.programmableweb.com/news/w3c-publishes-first-public-working-drafts-payment-specifications/brief/2016/04/25







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Received on Monday, 2 May 2016 21:13:40 UTC