Weekly digest of W3C news and trends

This is the 25 January - 1 February 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 :

- over 600 stories about W3C on Twitter in 7 days.
- over 1800 mentions of W3C in 7 days, with a peak on 31 Jan (624  
mentions) matching W3Conf 2013 promotion from several sources.
- With 53866 Twitter followers, net increase of 500 followers in the past  
week.

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.]


* (205) Smashingmag give-away contest (RT to win) for 1 free ticket to  
W3Conf
<http://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/297084971754090496>

* (4) The W3C Validator Suite [beta]
<http://www.w3.org/2013/ValidatorSuite/beta/>

* (123) ZDNet: HTML5 'turns web pages into computers': Berners-Lee
<http://www.zdnet.com/html5-turns-web-pages-into-computers-berners-lee-7000010522/>

* (24) W3C Blog: Open Web Platform Weekly Summary, by Karl Dubost
<http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/01/openweb-weekly-02>

* (29) W3C Blog: MMI Webinar, by Debbie Dahl
<http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/01/w3c_webinar_developing_portabl_1.html>

* (179) Manu Sporny’s Blog: DRM in HTML5
<http://manu.sporny.org/2013/drm-in-html5/>

* (460) BBC [video]: Berners Lee predicts dynamic web future
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21185853>

* (67) EC launches online service to promote semantic interoperability
<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/cesar/news/european-commission-launches-online-service-promote-semantic-interoperability>


Also this week, pertaining to HTML, people are talking about:
   1) <main> element in both W3C and WHATWG specs, but with different  
definitions
   2) DRM in HTML5



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

Below is a selection of articles published this week.

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


    Web inventor warns against data storage
    The Age (30 January)
    http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-inventor-warns-against-data-storage-20130129-2dixg.html


    HTML5 'turns web pages into computers': Berners-Lee
    ZDNet (30 January)
    http://www.zdnet.com/html5-turns-web-pages-into-computers-berners-lee-7000010522/


    World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing
    Phys.org (29 January)
    http://phys.org/news/2013-01-world-wide-web-creator-access.html


    Comcast's thePlatform shifts focus to HTML5
    FierceCable (29 January)
    http://www.fiercecable.com/story/comcasts-theplatform-shifts-focus-html5/2013-01-29#ixzz2JTxUHxdn


    Swipe, shake, CTRL Z? Web spec aims to end input overload
    ZDNet (25 January)
    http://www.zdnet.com/web-app-7000010331/


    2012 into 2013:  web standards in perspective
    .net magazine (23 January)
    http://www.netmagazine.com/features/2012-2013-web-standards-perspective


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

Received on Friday, 1 February 2013 16:06:58 UTC