Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: W3C Annotations Workshop, WebRTC Summit, Net Neutrality in Europe, etc.

This is the 28 March - 4 April 2014 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/


1) W3C and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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Nothing stood out particularly this week; I noted a few mentions of:

* W3C Annotations Workshop
   <http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/>

* JATS-Con (where Liam Quin presented “Publishing in Style with XML”)
   <http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0401-jatscon-quin/>

* WebRTC Global Summit (where Dominique Hazaël-Massieux keynoted “WebRTC:  
Web, meet Communications”)
   <http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/dhm-webrtc-gs.pdf>

* W3C TAG face-to-face meeting and Extensible Web Summit (held today)
   <http://www.w3.org/blog/TAG/2014/03/17/the-extensible-web-summit/>


2) Open Web & net neutrality
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* Forbes: The EU Outpaces The U.S. On Net Neutrality, 4 April 2014
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelfertik/2014/04/03/the-eu-outpaces-the-us-on-net-neutrality/>

* Gigaom: European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with  
major roaming reforms, 3 April 2014
<http://gigaom.com/2014/04/03/european-parliament-passes-strong-net-neutrality-law-along-with-major-roaming-reforms/>

* Chris Marsden: Commissioner Kroes can Skype her grandchildren's mobiles  
in retirement?, 3 April 2014
<http://chrismarsden.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/commissioner-kroes-can-skype-her.html>


3) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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6 articles this week. A selection follows.

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


    Web developers less concerned about browser-compatibility, more  
concerned with HTML5
    IT World (3 April)
    http://www.itworld.com/big-data/412774/web-developers-less-concerned-about-browser-compatibility-more-concerned-html5


    Ad tracking: Is anything being done?
    Computer World (2 April)
    http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247217/Ad_tracking_Is_anything_being_done_


    Accessible technology professionals will soon be able to get certified
    IT World (31 March)
    http://www.itworld.com/application-management/412009/accessible-technology-professionals-will-soon-be-able-get-certified


    How www (World Wide Web) was born at CERN 25 years ago?
    Microfinance Monitor (29 March)
    http://www.microfinancemonitor.com/2014/03/29/how-www-world-wide-web-was-born-at-cern-25-years-ago/



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  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

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