W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft

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From “W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content“:

22 January 2008 — W3C today published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. The group operates entirely in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C Members ACCESS, AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera.

Via Slashdot.

AOL Experimenting with XMPP

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From: “AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber“:

Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you’ll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who’s next? MSN!

Wow, I’m getting all my wishes these days… I was semi-joking about it the other day. I guess I should do that more often! ;)

Semantic Wave 2008: Free Summary Report

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From “Semantic Wave 2008 – Free Summary Report for RWW Readers“:

Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities. A free 27-page summary of Project10X’s Semantic Wave 2008 Report has been made available to ReadWriteWeb readers.

I just filled up the form to get my copy of the summary. It says I’ll get an email with a link within four business hours.

Montreal to Implement Bike Sharing System

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From: “Michel Dallaire will design the new bike sharing system“:

Later this year, Montreal will enjoy the beginnings of a new bike sharing program modeled on Paris’ hugely popular Velib. As we mentioned last fall, the system will eventually include 2,400 bicycles parked at 300 stations across town.

Awesome!

And on a loosely related note, The STM and Communauto also formed an alliance that could be very attractive to many Montrealers.

Facebook's FOSS FBJS Animation Library

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From “FBJS/Animation – Facebook Developers Wiki“:

FBJS exposes a powerful animation library which gives developers an easy way to improve their user interface with a line of two or code. All animations are CSS based, so a working knowledge of CSS will really help you out here. An open-source version of FBJS Animation that will work on pages outside of Facebook is available at: http://developers.facebook.com/animation/.

Via ReadWriteWeb and the Facebook Developer blog.