W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft

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.

Semantic Wave 2008: Free Summary Report

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.

Facebook's FOSS FBJS Animation Library

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.

Read/WriteTalk Speaks with the New Mozilla CEO

From “Read/WriteTalk: John Lilly – CEO, Mozilla“:

In the interview we review both the lessons he’s learned at Mozilla and his plans for the organization in the future. I also think many of the leaders at DataPortability.org will find his comments quite interesting.

Interesting. Very interesting!

And while I’m at it: See “New Video Explains the Basics of Data Portability“, if you’re unclear on the subject.