Hello all
Apologies for last week, I had to teach my course at Oxford University and so it was difficult to do the week in standards last week. But we are back this week covering both weeks, and a lot has happened in the world of standards in the last two weeks as we see below.
Early nominations for the Mashable Open Web awards are in and the 500 nominees make fascinating reading.
Apart from the nominees themselves, it is interesting to see the categories for the choice of ‘Open Web’. By referring to ‘Open’ in context of the Web, one would expect to see a W3C standards based discussion but ‘Open Web’ is a vague term which suits well for getting nominations, as the list clearly illustrates.
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As new areas evolve, there may be a case for new standards.
However, paradoxically – the need for the standard is not known until the domain itself has evolved significantly to fulfil a business need.
One such domain is ‘status updates’. Until recently, ‘status updates’ was not a candidate for standardization. However, now LinkedIn has partnered with Twitter to propagate status updates via Twitter.
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When I was a boy, Live and let die was my favourite James Bond movie.
It was also a theme I used when I gave the keynote at the Mobile Innovation week hosted by the city of Toronto. (By the way – our city host Mayor David Miller (Toronto) is very tech savvy – you can follow his twitter feed HERE.
The question I raised in my keynote is: Should Twitter die for the real time web to live?
It has been a year since Google launched its browser Chrome. So far its market share is below 3 percent. Despite superior technical performance, standards-compliance and open source it is still struggling well behind market leader IE and runner-up Firefox. Perhaps this experience serves to prove the old truth that innovation is not only about invention but also about marketing and distribution? At least this seems to be the lesson drawn at Googleplex.
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We have just completed a new working paper that surveys the SSOs involved in web standardization. It is available for download as pdf here: web-standards-090828-final. Comments welcome! See also http://www.talkstandards.com/?p=1288, Mattias Ganslandt
The web has become a natural part of our everyday life. In perhaps no other area is the value of standards more evident. The Internet as we know it would not have existed without standards. Such features as global interoperability and connectivity are the result of important standards such as TCP/IP, HTML and XML. The question is if future development will be determined by markets or politics?
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