From “Understanding art for geeks – a photoset on Flickr“:
A way to explain art to geeks. The archive of www.paulthewineguy.com.
Absolutely brilliant! Click the image for the full Flickr set.
Via Doug’s Literal Barrage.
From “Canadian Privacy Commissioner: Just say no to intrusive DRM“:
Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, is wary of DRM, and she’s not afraid to tell other branches of government about her concerns. Stoddart has just sent a public letter to Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister of Industry, telling him that his impending copyright reform bill should not protect any DRM that gathers and transmits personal data.
Your constituency thanks you dearly, Ms. Stoddart, for looking out for our best interest.
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.
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! ;)
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.
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