Weekly digest of W3C news and trends

This is the 4-11 January 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/


Notably this week:

- 1500 stories about W3C on Twitter in 7 days.
- over 2700 mentions of W3C in 7 days, with two peaks on 8 Jan (547  
mentions) and 9 Jan (650 mentions). The top stories are respectively Bruce  
Lawson’s interview of Ian Hickson, and XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, XQueryX 3.0  
published as Candidate Recommendations.
- With 52418 Twitter followers, net increase of 982 followers in the past  
3 weeks (348 in the past week).
- 13 posts that dlvr.it posted to StatusNet, Twitter and Facebook between  
Jan 02 and Jan 09 got 32.4K clicks, delivered to 60.4K connections.

Below is the compilation of what I harvested monitoring the  
(micro)blogosphere and press.


W3C-related Twitter buzz
------------------------
[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.]


* (86) TAG election announced last night
<http://twitter.com/w3c/status/289496596595474432> and some other tweets.

* (20) Test The Web Forward Sydney
<http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/01/10/test-the-web-forward-sydney/>

* (28) XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, XQueryX 3.0 are W3C Candidate Recommendations
<http://twitter.com/w3c/status/289112444561915904>

* (36) Bruce Lawson’s interview of Ian Hickson
<http://html5doctor.com/interview-with-ian-hickson-html-editor/>

* (876) Blog: Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week
<http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/things-learned-pretending-to-be-blind-for-a-week/>
via Chris Heilmann, [[ "Being W3C valid means jack" Things I learned by  
pretending to be blind for a week ]]
cf. <https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/288333562858586113>



W3C in the Press (or some blogs)
--------------------------------

Below is a selection of articles.

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


    Khaled Koubaa, Google Afrique du Nord : «Il est temps pour le Maghreb  
de créer du contenu et des services en ligne» (Khaled Koubaa, Google North  
Africa: "It is time for the Maghreb to create content and online services")
    Le Quotidien d'Oran (9 January)
    http://www.lequotidien-oran.com/index.php?news=5177717


    Interview with Ian Hickson, HTML editor
    HTML5 Doctor (8 January)
    http://html5doctor.com/interview-with-ian-hickson-html-editor/


    IonMonkey delivers a faster Firefox
    CNET (8 January)
    http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3514_7-57562180/ionmonkey-delivers-a-faster-firefox/

    Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week
    silktide Blog (7 January)
    http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/things-learned-pretending-to-be-blind-for-a-week/


    HTML5 Is Now Feature Complete, W3C To Start Focusing On Interoperability
    WebProNews (3 January)
    http://www.webpronews.com/html5-is-now-feature-complete-w3c-to-start-focusing-on-interoperability-2013-01


    Developers Get "Locked Down" HTML5 Specification From W3C
    Dr. Dobb's (2 January)
    http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/developers-get-locked-down-html5-specifi/240145428


    Web technology: 5 things to watch in 2013
    CNET (31 December)
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57560190-93/web-technology-5-things-to-watch-in-2013/


    W3C verdedigt web cryptography-api (W3C defends cryptography web-api)
    Tweakers (27 December)
    http://tweakers.net/nieuws/86317/w3c-verdedigt-web-cryptography-api.html


    Why is Microsoft contributing to WebKit?
    ZDNet (24 December)
    http://www.zdnet.com/why-is-microsoft-contributing-to-webkit-7000009092/


    Le W3C dévoile les spécifications du HTML5 et de Canvas 2D (The W3C  
discloses HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications)
    ICTjournal (20 December)
    http://www.ictjournal.ch/fr-CH/News/2012/12/20/Le-W3C-devoile-les-specifications-du-HTML5-et-de-Canvas-2D.aspx


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

Received on Friday, 11 January 2013 16:37:46 UTC