Web birthday; TBL at WWW2018; TAG election; Digital Publishing Summit; WebRTC; WOFF 2.0

This is the 5 -19 March 2018 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]


12 March 2018
@webfoundation
A friendly reminder to mark the web’s birthday today. The web and the internet are not the same thing. The web was invented by @timberners_lee and the internet was invented by @vgcerf. #HappyBirthdayWWW  @w3c
https://twitter.com/webfoundation/status/973157492548128768
(773 Retweets, 1,009 Likes)


12 March2018
@TheWebConf
Thurs 26/04 join us after the keynote for an exciting panel chaired by @DameWendyDBE with panelists: @timberners_lee (@MIT_CSAIL, @w3c) @vgcerf (@Google) @VillaniCedric (@UniversiteLyon) @Ruhi_Sarikaya (@amazon) & Antoine Bordes (@Facebook)! More info: https://www2018.thewebconf.org/plenary-panels/ 
https://twitter.com/TheWebConf/status/973255610040049664
(25 Retweets, 16 Likes)
 

6 March 2018
@hadleybeeman
Also... hey @w3c members! Special election now open for a new @w3ctag member. We need you (or your AC rep) to vote! Voting closes 2 April. Candidates: @triblondon, @kennethrohde & @hober. More info & their statements: https://www.w3.org/2018/03/05-tag-nominationshttps://twitter.com/hadleybeeman/status/971144597261910017
(19 Retweets, 14 Likes)


7 March2018
@EDRLab_EPUB
Thanks to our partner The World Wide Web Consortium @w3c for sharing these few words about our upcoming Digital Publishing Summit in Berlin  Mark your calendar 16th&17th of May and get your tickets now - W3C members benefit from a 30€ discount  https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/03/digital-publishing-summit-in-berlin-16th-and-17th-of-may/https://twitter.com/EDRLab_EPUB/status/971349703962001408
(9 Retweets, 9 Likes)


2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality
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* The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it.
12 March2018
Web Foundation
Tim Berners-Lee
https://webfoundation.org/2018/03/web-birthday-29/


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

 
*  The new Firefox lets you stop websites from asking to send you notifications
14 March 2018
Ars Technica
by SAMUEL AXON
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/the-new-firefox-lets-you-stop-websites-from-asking-to-send-you-notifications/


*  On the 29th birthday of the web, here are its 9 most important developments
12 March 2018
SkyNews
https://news.sky.com/story/on-the-29th-birthday-of-the-web-here-are-its-9-most-important-developments-11286579


*  The WebRTC Wave Is Now Unstoppable
7 March 2018
No Jitter
by Badri Rajasekar
https://www.nojitter.com/post/240173351/the-webrtc-wave-is-now-unstoppable


*  WebFonts Working Group Announces WOFF 2.0 File Format
5 March 2018
DesignModo
by Doru Ciobanu 
https://designmodo.com/webfonts-woff-2/

Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2018 18:28:08 UTC