Very nice book about our favorite web creator Tim Berners-Lee.  It tells the story from his point of view.  Interesting the kind of ideas he had when this book came out in 99.  Click here to read the Amazon reviews.  Highly recommended!

Esto fue en la inaguracion de Campus Party Mexico 2009 en Expo Bancomer, Santa fe y el señor Berners nos dios el honor de empezar este gran evento del cual me he llevado una inolvidable experiencia el hecho de conocer a distintas personalidades una de ella el señor Tim Berners un poco pasajera y muy tecnica su charla acerca de sus proyectos y demas teorias sobre su nuevo lenguaje llamado html5 algo confusa para lo que no sabemos nada acerca de diseño web y siento que no queria asistir al evento  por obvias razones (los que fueron al evento lo deben saber, pero bueno…)

Ajustes antes de empezar la conferencia

Al comienzo nos dio su historia de como empezo todo conto que antes solo usaba numeros y despues realizo como un memo con diagramas para asi empezar a elaborar algo mas complejo.
En los 90’s empezo a diseñar  dice que lo importante de de diseñar paginas web es que no necesitas un sistema operativo especifico y mucho menos que navegador te guste mas simplemente puedes solo ingresar y hacer tu pagina muy comodo, para hacer paginas web como html + svg + mathml (si me preguntas estoy igual no tengo idea para que sirven tengo nocion de que son y su finalidad es hacer paginas web). Esto es que puedes usar diferentes lenguajes de diseño para lograr hacer tupagina web mas interesante implementar y diseñar nuevas compañias.

Y una de las cosas que te llevas de esta platica es el hecho de siempre estar innovando y mejorando realmente para los programadores, diseñadores, etc. herramientas fundamentales de su trabajo. Inspirativo para los que estamos fuera de ese campo… pero lo mejor de todo es que aun asi puedes disfrutar de las maravillas de internet  y las facilidades que esta nos otorga gracias a todos los que nos hacen el navegar mas facil y util.

Si quieres ver los videos de la conferencia clic aqui

Colaboración de:  sQarface

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Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the WWW was in Kenya very recently and yesterday he was at Strathmore University where he talked a bit about the WWW, it’s origins and where it is going. I had the honor of presenting about African Pixel and Afrinnovator (http://www.afrinnovator.com/) at the same event, amongst other tech entrepreneurs and innovators in Kenya. The idea was to give Sir Tim the opportunity to see some of what is happening in Kenya in terms of innovation.

KenyanPoet has a more detailed post on the happenings of the day and photos.

Presenting about African Pixel and Afrinnovator in front of Sir Tim Berners Lee, Inventor of the Internet

Sir Tim Berners Lee talking about the www at Strathmore University

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In randurile internautilor se discuta din ce in ce mai des despre directia inspre care se indreapta web-ul. Am vazut cu totii ce insemna web 1.0 in trecut. Ne amintim cu totii nervii pe care ii aveam pana ajungeam sa fim online, sunetul clasic al modemului dial-up, minutele in sir asteptate pana la incarcarea unei pagini. Retrospectiv privind, web 1.0 nu era cool, nu era prietenos, nu era smecher, dar ideea in sine de a putea fi conectat la o lume intreaga fascina.

Azi suntem parta integranta a web 2.0. Spun parte integranta, pentru ca, daca nu stiati, voi sunteti web 2.0. Cand spun voi ma refer la utilizatorii internetului. Web 2.0 nu ar exista fara utilizatori care sa il acceseze, foloseasca, modifice si promoveze. Cand ma gandesc la web 2.0, vad in primul rand o masa de oameni care butoneaza prin toata lumea si ajuta la rezultatele pe care le vedem azi. Evident ca maine, rezultatele vor fi deja modificate de aceiasi masa de oameni sau poate de un grup care pana ieri nu se “juca” cu aceste tehnologii.

Se vorbeste aprins despre web 3.0, generatia noua care va fi pregnanta in al doilea deceniu al sec XXI, adica de la anu’. web 3.0 va insemna transformarea internetului intr-un asistent personal care va reusi sa ne ghideze viata intr-un fel sau altul, sa interactioneze cu tehnologia din jurul nostru si mai mult, cu familia si prietenii. Tim Berners Lee, a numit web 3.0 ca Semantic Web. Domnul Lee are un vis, si anume, ca aceasta noua generatie a web-ului sa poata analiza intr-un mod semantic toate datele de care beneficiaza, si pe care utilizatorii le transmit zilnic. Acest lucru ne-ar oferi posibilitati nelimitate. Ramane de vazut.

Cat despre web 4 sau 4.0 cum vreti sa ii spuneti, ramane de imaginat. Tinand cont ca este prevazut pentru intervalul 2020-2030, se mai pot intampla foarte multe lucruri pana atunci. Scenariul pe care il putem gandi fiecare dintre noi pentru web 4 este mai mult ca sigur o particica din scenariul intreg care va exista atunci. Veti putea citi exemple gandite de unii dintre cei mai de seama internauti in referintele pe care vi le voi oferi. Eu pot doar sa imi formez o viziune proprie. Iar aceasta viziune este una foarte asemanatoare cu filmele SF din ultimii ani, spun asta deoarece, daca a fost cineva care sa se gandeasca la asa ceva, precis se gasesc multi altii care sa incerce sa realizeze acel ceva. Internet-ul, acest mare conglomerat, se indreapta cu pasi repezi spre o entitate inteligenta, mai inteligenta ca omul, cu posibilitati nelimitate, cu drepturi nelimitate. Pare infricosator, si este foarte posibil sa si fie asa, deoarece, intotdeauna o masina, sau o entitate diferita de cea umana, va distinge altfel decat noi diferenta dintre bine si rau, dintre corect si gresit. Intimitatea asa cum o intelegem azi nu va mai exista, va trebui sa ne deschidem mintile pentru ceva cu totul diferit. Dar, omul evolueaza in paralel cu internetul, chiar daca are cateva viteze mai putin. Nu avem de unde sa anticipam efectele pe care le avea web 4 asupra noastra, dar un lucru e cert, cu cat ne vom implica mai mult in dezvoltarea acestuia, cu atat vom fi mai pregatiti pentru ceea ce va urma.

Va rog sa cititi si sursele mele de aici si aici.

Sa incheiem intr-o nota vesela cu urmatoarea explicare a generatiilor de web:

Ever since the Tim Berners Lee gave us the world wide web, we have seen numerous technologies and innovations on this platform. For me, and i am sure for millions others, Mozilla Firefox is one of the best out of them. The web was sick of the monopolistic attitude of some bullying ‘explorers’ and deserved a change. This welcome change was brought about with the initiation of the Mozilla project which gave us this cute li’l baby called Firefox. Now this baby is 5 years young and is revolutionizing the experience of the web for the users every minute. I personally rediscovered the web using Firefox over IE.

My introduction to Firefox is an interesting story. It was the year 2006 and i was on my home PC, searching for some stuff or the other put in it by the computer salesperson from whom my father had bought it. Doing so, i stumbled upon a .exe setup of something called a Firefox! I instantly loved the name and installed it just for the sake of satisfying my curiosity. When it got installed (it was a 1.x version and it took only a few seconds in installation!), i found out that it was a web browser. At that time, i had a dial-up 33.6 kbps connection on which IE used to give me 1.0kbps to 1.5kbps of download ’speed’. I tried downloading with Firefox and voila, on the same connection, it gave me speed of 3kbps! I was jubiliated and since that day, i have never used IE (except for cases when i don’t have any option ).

Mozilla celebrated the 5th birth anniversary of Firefox on 9th November, 2009. There have been several Firefox 5th Birth Anniversary celebrations around the world in the past week and two. So me, along with my batchmates and fellow members of Open Source User Group, Pantnagar are organising a party in our college to celebrate the 5th birth anniversary of Firefox! We would be having a small cake cutting ceremony followed by a quiz on Firefox. There are exciting prizes to be won! The details of the party are as under:
Date : Sunday, 22 November 2009

Time : 4:00 pm onwards

Venue: PCT Lawns
Everyone associated with the college (students, professors, workers, everyone) is cordially invited to be a part of this fun! It’s payback time for every one to whom Firefox has given so very much in the past 5 years.

Spread the word: http://3.ly/5p7

Spread Firefox: http://www.spreadfirefox.com

Firefox 5th Anniversary Celebrations

In recent news, the country of Sweden crashed: Apparently it is possible to cause every single address in a domain to go down (in this case, .se), by making a simple script error during routine maintenance…whodathunk? I shudder to think what may happen when routine maintenance on the .com domain takes place…

In another bit of “wish I’d never done that” news, Tim Berners-Lee just admitted that the forward slashes in the Web’s URL design protocol were both unnecessary and – in his words – a mistake. With this in mind, I thought it might be fun to wander around the Web, and the Internet as a whole, just to see what we could find, by way of unfortunate stories we may have forgotten, or never even known about…things that “seemed like a good idea at the time”. We’re getting closer to the end of the year, when all those retrospectives come out, and I thought this would be as good a time as any to think back, only not just over the past year, but further. After all, it’s the history we forget that we so often tend to repeat…

Do you remember GeoCities? If you thought they died a long time ago, you might be surprised to hear that Yahoo, who acquired them back when people thought dot-coms would never bomb, recently (as in October 26th, 2009) announced GeoCities was closing its doors. Talk about limping along…

Then there are the ISPs. I was a Mindspringer for the longest time, one of the first evangelists for the brand (until Earthlink purchased them). Along with the likes of Prodigy (still shuffling along, believe it or not, as owner AT&T tries to find someone stupid enough to buy something worth nothing), AOL (reinventing itself every day, yet still deriving the largest measure of its revenue from good old (and I mean old!) dial-up subscriptions), and Netzero (reduced to net zero, as they try to find new ways to also rejigger the fact that they are still a dial-up ISP), Mindspring was a pioneer doomed to be eclipsed by telcos who learned from their mistakes.

When we think back to the search engines, the list is long: Webcrawler, AltaVista (technically still around), Lycos…heck, I’m just scraping the tip of the iceberg, and have already lost interest. Did you know that AltaVista had a chance to buy Google’s search technology way back when, and passed? Whoops. Google, contrary to its current well-deserved reputation, was not innovative at all when it first opened for business. It was efficient and analytical. Its algorithms reinvented web search, based on the ideas of its predecessors, good and bad alike. Some people call that reinventing the wheel, but they at least have not rested on their laurels.

Many websites that burned brightly for only a short while were decried as unsustainable business models (remember Pets.com, Webvan, eToys, Kibu, and Kozmo?), and yet their model has since been adapted and proven successful (Petedge, Upco, Fosters &Smith, Amazon, Barbie.com, Tesco, to name but a few comparable online ventures that seem to have “made it”). Timing is all, it would indeed seem, or at least kinda crucial.

For some, it was all about effective marketing and brand awareness…or the lack thereof: Akimbo.com failed because they could not manage to communicate their value proposition to their target market, among other “challenges”; Hulu succeeded (where Joost, Veoh, Vimeo, and others have not – to varying degrees) because they realized their brand strength was tied to the apron strings of their partners. OK, it certainly didn’t hurt that the networks who own the content it distributes also own Hulu!..

In other cases, interactive success came as a result of reinvention: the transition (or should I say ‘desertion”?) from Microsoft Live Search to today’s “Bing” *might* finally establish MSFT as a competitor to Google, in much the same way as Firefox is to the Redmond giant’s own browser…well, without the Open Source stuff!

Now,who uses RSS? I’m sure it some value, but not yet for me. I subscribe to several feeds, and all I do is trash the avalanche of junk in my inbox each morning. Until people learn to self police their content (be it RSS feeds, Tweets, or Facebook Mafia War activities), the internet is going to continue to burn through ideas like flames across the Verdugo mountains.  There is too much information online, and we want tools that will filter and control the flood of data, not simply fractionalize it. After all, half of infinity is still infinity.

Some companies have good ideas, easily replicable by larger or later-in-the-game interests. Kiko developed a web based calendar, which seems like a great idea, unless you factor that it was not sufficiently proprietary of a business model to prevent Google from developing its own Google Calendar app.; and  HotorNot.com and Friendster were arguably ripped off by what is known today as Facebook (originally Facemash). Several companies are in the process of trying to beat TVguide.com at its own game (something that seems – at first glance – to be a good idea, given that the TVGuide.com site is not so great). However, couchville.com was there first, and since departed. Branding is worth a lot these days, in a very cluttered marketplace and, unless you are a captive subscriber (using ATT/Yahoo TV portal, for instance), or an early adopter (of which there are far fewer than those of us on the East and West Coasts might believe).

Some ideas are not so much failures as temporary successes, taking advantage of loopholes in the law or in best practices. P2P is one prime example, with different offerings coming and going (or continuing to exist despite obviously supporting illegal practices), but there are others, such as Yak4ever, the site that allows you to make free international calls, albeit through a slightly cumbersome process. Google Voice is another offering that seems destined to either succumb to the counterattacks of the powerful telco lobbies, or force a reinvention of telco laws.

Where such ongoing “could go either way” projects as MySpace.com,  Friendster (it’s still trying to make a go of it, my friends, and doing quite well in the Asia Pacific regions!), Kiva (currently under attack by folks who’d like to see it go the way of govWorks.com. Did you read the recent NYT article?), Project Natal, and James Cameron’s “Avatar” (had to throw that one in there!) end up is anybody’s guess. That’s where you come in: What failures and unforeseen successes do you recall? What is coming down the pike that you feel may completely reinvent interactive content production, storage, distribution, and/or consumption? Are you working on something that will make the Internet an even more robust tool and platform for communications, community and content? What does the Internet mean to you, beyond the conventional Web and email? What internet ventures do you feel will still be with us by the end of 2010?

History shows that much of what we praise today will be gone tomorrow.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Ozymandias, by Percy Shelley (1818)

For nearly a decade the surest sign of trouble for a consumer-based Internet startup was simple: lousy web traffic numbers. Eyeballs, of course, never insure profits. If page views and unique visitors aren’t moving up, however, trouble is coming. That’s bad news for Twitter, a company with a billion-dollar valuation to live up to. The number of unique visitors to Twitter’s Web site from the U.S. fell to 19.2 million in October from 20.9 million in September, according to comScore. This time, however, it may not be a problem. The reason?
Twitter is an Internet company, not a Web company. While the words ‘Web’ and ‘Internet’ are often used interchangeably, they’re really two very different things. The Web refers to the graphical portion of the Internet built around the hypertext-transport protocol created by physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. The Internet, by contrast, is the far older communications infrastructure that the Web, like email, was built around.

It’s a distinction that could become more important as the Web 2.0 boom begins to fade, and startups use the Internet to connect their services directly to the set top boxes, smart phone applications, and widgets built into social networks (big caveat, many such connections are built to take advantage of the web’s hypertext-transport protocol, but while they remain ‘web applications’ they’re not consumed by the organ sacks whose behavior is measured by traditional web traffic monitoring services).

So it’s almost inevitable that a consumer-focused Internet company will, soon, start to see Web traffic stagnate even as its popularity soars. Twitter might just be among the first to take that path: it has has already spawned a vast number of third-party applications and web sites users tap into to interact with the service, such as Seesmic and Brizzly. Many users never touch Twitter.com. And that trend will only grow, with Microsoft adding support for Twitter to its XBox Live online console gaming service next week.

A spokesperson for comScore even says the traffic measurement service is looking for ways to measure traffic to online services that flow through application programming services and mobile phones, rather than Web sites viewed via PCs.

So will Twitter’s Web traffic continue to stagnate? That depends not just on how many users Twitter attracts, but whether they choose to interact with the service through Twitter.com, or through phones, gaming consoles, and third-party services and applications. What we do know now is, in the long-run, web traffic will matter less and less as services such as Twitter mature into companies that use the Internet to connect computers, set top boxes, phones, and other devices through specialized applications, rather than the boring old Web browser. — Brian Caulfield

Great news for the UK. This update on the ongoing data.gov.uk project, suggests that the first beta will be launched next month to a select group.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt have been tasked with delivering the goods. The BBC has reported that Data.gov.uk is built with semantic web technology (one of Berners-Lee’s own pet projects), which will enable the data it offers to be drawn together into links and threads as the user searches.

The tide is shifting – very quickly – on this kind of data issue. On 21st Oct Berners-Lee “cited the census, the land registry and Ordnance Survey data as among the publicly collected information that should be freely available”. Today, the Prime Minister announced that the first stage of Ordinance Survey data release.

Litt på siden kanskje men tenkte at noen av dere vil finne dette videointervjuet fra The Economist med World Wide Web grunnleggeren Tim Berners-Lee interessant.

Well, technically happy birthday almost two weeks ago on October 13. The browser turns 15. Yep, if the web browser — that digital tool so old it’s losing teeth and has hair growing out its ears — couldn’t even get a driver’s license if it were a person. Innovation is fast and furious and little things like this bring that point home every once in a while.

First came ARPANET back in the late 1960s, which led to the internet leading to the more user friendly subset of the internet known as the World Wide Web and those easy-to-use GUIs and the dawn of the age of the web browser. And now we’re about to be browsing sites written in HTML5.

From the very first link:

The Web browser turns 15 on Oct. 13, 2009 — a key milestone in the history of the Internet. That’s when the first commercial Web browser — eventually called Netscape Navigator – was released as beta code. While researchers including World Wide Web inventorTim Berners-Lee and a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications created Unix browsers between 1991 and 1994, Netscape Navigator made this small piece of desktop software a household name. By allowing average users to view text and images posted on Web sites, Netscape Navigator helped launch the Internet era along with multiple browser wars, government-led lawsuits and many software innovations

Tim Berners-Lee, bedenker van het web richt tegenwoordig zijn aandacht op zijn passies: het slimme, semantische web, gebaseerd op makkelijk toegankelijke databases. En zijn nieuwe project Web 4 Social Development, dat werkt aan internetvoorzieningen voor ontwikkelingslanden: “Slechts 20 procent van de wereldbevolking gebruikt het web, het gaat erom de andere 80 procent aan te sluiten. Als je internet hebt, kun je makkelijker geld verdienen, dat je weer kunt gebruiken voor voorzieningen als schoon drinkwater en onderwijs. Aan de andere kant zeggen sommigen dat het ongepast is om mensen in arme landen eerst toegang te geven tot internet, nog voordat ze een goede gezondheidszorg hebben.”

Toen hij het web bedacht, lag het netwerk er al; de meeste universiteiten waren al aangesloten op internet. In de ontwikkelingslanden is niet alleen sprake van technische vragen, zoals welke netwerktechniek woet worden gebruikt, maar vooral sociale vragen. Moet je internettoegang thuis bieden of op één centrale plek in het dorp? “Je moet mensen in ontwikkelingslanden in ieder geval het gereedschap bieden waarmee zij hun eigen websites kunnen maken. Want het is maar de vraag of jongeren op het Afrikaanse platteland iets hebben aan een sociaal netwerk dat bedacht is voor Amerikaanse tieners.” Daarnaast pleit hij voor het vrijgeven en verbinden van databases. “Er bestaat een natuurlijke terughoudendheid bij overheden om data op het web te zetten. Maar als je gegevens met elkaar verbindt worden ze krachtiger. De ervaring is: mensen vinden de gegevens en gebruiken die voor heel andere dingen dan je van te voren dacht. Dat is de waarde van het web.”
Lieke Veld

Al 1961, un alumne de l’Institut Tecnològic de Massachussets (MIP), Leonard Kleinrock inicià un projecte sobre la possibilitat d’enviar informació d’un ordinador a un altre anomenat teoria de la commutació de paquets d’informació. La primera xarxa interconnectada data de finals de 1969, concretament el 29 d’octubre, el científic i professor en Ciències de la Computació de la Unversitat d’UCLA, Leonard Kleinrock, aconseguint connectar la computadora de la seva universitat amb un de la Universitat d’ Stanford, creant així el primer node. ARPANET, aquest és el nom que rep la xarxa, és l’origen del que avui entenem com Internet. Com a curiositat, indicar que la velocitat de transferència rondava els 0,9 kilobits per segon. Les Universitats de Santa Bàrbara i la de Utah també van aconseguir connectar-se, formant d’aquesta manera una xarxa de quatre nodes entre les universitats citades.

Al 1971 va néixer el correu electrònic. Raymond Samuel Tomlinson dissenyà la primera aplicació del que ara coneixem com e-mail per ARPANE. Incorporà l’arroba, símbol que prové de l’àrab per separar el nom de l’usuari i el del servidor. Una arroba equival a 25 lliures de pes, uns 12 kilograms. Al mateix temps, altres universitats van aconseguir afergir-se a ARPANET. La idea d’una xarxa universal anava agafant forma: es van assentar els protocols com el Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), possibilitant d’aquesta manera la comunicació entre ordinadors.

Aparagueren els primers problemes entre els científics que defensaven la idea d’una xarxa lliure per intercanviar informació i coneixements, i les empreses, que volien dominar la xarxa i proritzar per sobre de tot llurs interessos econòmics. L’expansió dels ordinadors personals van possibilitar el gran salt. És l’anomenda democratització de la Xarxa. La guerra de sistemes operatius d’Apple, IBM i Microsoft havia començat. Al 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, de l’Organització Mundial per la Investigació Mundial (CERN), va aplicar el projecte de l’hipertext (ideat al 1980), que consisteix en crear hipervincles i enllaços que relacionen texts compuratitzats. L’aparició de l’hipertext, és a dir, HTTP i HTML (recordem que http vol dir Hypertext Transfer Protocol) va coincidir amb la irrupció de la World Wide Web, primer sistema de documents d’hipertexts, i el WorldWideWeb, el primer navegador web, i HTTPD, el primer servidor de web.

Al 1993, la CERN afirma que la Web seria gratuïta per tothom. L’evolució des d’aquell dia ha estat imparable. Es calcula que aviat hi hauran 2000 milions d’usuaris. El que encara està a l’aire és que es mantingui el caràcter democràtic i lliure de la Web, respectant la idea original dels seus creadors. La lògica de la llibertat tremola davant dels interessos corporativistes, com sempre disposats a privatitzar i fer negoci, en lloc de potenciar les eines de coneixement. Així s’explica que els pressupostos en matèria de cultura i educació siguin ridículs en comparació, per exemple, als de defensa.

En aquest vídeo animat en V.O.S.E ens ho expliquen de manera més àmplia; i en només en vuit minuts:

He’s as important a pioneer as Johannes Gutenberg or Alexander Graham Bell –except that he’s alive, well, and very much deeply involved in determining the future of the medium he created. He’s Sir Tim Berners Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and it was an honor to sit in the same ballroom as the guy yesterday as he appeared onstage as the final guest at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

As TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters noted, Sir Tim has joined Twitter–here’s his account–and started tweeting shortly before his Web.20 session began, Like nearly every new Twitter user, he started out by being somewhat confused, as he noted in his first tweet.

Judging from Sir Tim’s third tweet, he’s already a user of the Twitter-like Identi.ca service–which makes sense, since (unlike Twitter) it’s an open-source project and therefore reflective of his dedication to openness on the Web.

Side note: Twitter’s recent introduction of a spam reporting feature is a boon, but there’s something jarring about the “report timberners_lee for spam” link at the right of his page. It’s a little as if George Washington suddenly showed up at the White House today, wanted to stop in for a visit, and was forced to walk through a metal detector…

Tim Berners-Lee aderiu ao twitter. Eis seu primeiro tweet:

Ooops confusing user interfxce.

Via Mashable

Couple of nice outcomes from my thinking tonight.  I think you will appreciate both.

#E20Path

http://rlavigne42.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/e20path/

Content = Free;

Content + Context = Value;

Value + Engagement = Effectiveness;

Effectiveness + Metrics = Efficiency

Only 20-25% of humanity actually uses the Web at all – Tim Berners-Lee #w2s

http://rlavigne42.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/only-20-25-of-humanity-actually-uses-the-web-at-all-tim-berners-lee-w2s/

Both highlight the real marketing opportunities that will blow up in the coming years once that final wall falls.  This is when things truly become global as it is those with the knowledge and experience that will be able to manage that growth.

My Thoughts Enclosed…Rb

I just saw the Daily Show interview with William Kamkwamba.  William is a brilliant kid, who built an electricity generating windmill from scraps for his small village in Africa.  His story is truly inspiring!

It is very ironic that I saw this on the same night that Sir Tim Berners-Lee reminded us that only 25% of humanity uses the Web.  The remaining 75% do not have access to the free knowledge that is available to them via something as simple as Wikipedia.  William built this using a picture from a book at a library and his own insight and ingenuity.  A truly inspiring person!”

William if you ever read this, do contact me as you are someone I would very much like to follow more closely in your career and inspirational aspirations.

My Thoughts Enclosed…Rb

My Commented Thoughts

To be inspired by someone so young is very humbling.  William you are rarity in this world and we should all be touched by your story.

Without electricity there can be no light.  Without light there can not be insight into the darkness of the world.  The content we give so freely via our blogs,etc needs to be shared with the world.  We must help the world connect with us, so that we can connect with them and find resolution and innovation.
@rlavigne42

http://rlavigne42.wordpress.com/

The BBC is developing a unique four part documentary series for broadcast in 2010 on BBC Two. It has a working title of ‘Digital Revolution‘, and there are a number of ways we can all get involved, including helping Stephen Fry to come up with a better name for the series, and shaping the content of the series.

Here’s some blurb from the Digital Revolution website about the project:

‘Digital Revolution’ is an experiment in collaboration. We want to hear the opinions, thoughts and experiences from the populace of the web – you. Add your comments to our blog posts. Tell us the stories you think we should be covering. Your input will help shape our documentary.

One of the things I personally find exciting about the project is that as many as possible of the video rushes† are being made available by the site for us to watch, share, download and, significantly, edit ourselves (adhering to the licensing terms, which are similar to Creative Commons but have to differ because of the way the BBC is funded and run). This ties in with a previous post about Remix. Some of the people interviewed and available in these rushes include:

• Tim Berners-Lee
• Clay Shirky
• Charles Leadbeater
• Howard Rheingold
• Stephen Fry
• Jimmy Wales

many of whom I’ve written about, used quotes or photographs of in presentations or writings, or communicated with directly.

When I have time, possibly next week, I’ll certainly be remixing this video content.

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“Think of the amount of print that we could have saved if I would have just removed the double slash,” Berners-Lee said, somewhat light-heartedly.

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İnternetin mucidi, geriye dönebilse sizce neyi değiştirmek isterdi? Cevap “kesme işaretinde” gizli.

World Wide Web Konsorsiyum’unun direktörü ve M.I.T. profesörü olan Tim Berners-Lee, bir röportajda ilginç bir soruyla karşılaştı ve çok daha ilginç bir cevap verdi.

İnternetin mucidi olarak tanınan Tim’e “Her şeyi baştan yapacak olsan neyi farklı yapardın? Pişmanlıkların var mı?” sorusu soruldu.

Gülümseyerek cevap veren Lee, bugünkü aklı olsa bir değişiklik yapacağını söyledi ve küçük pişmanlığını paylaştı. http’yi bugün yapsa önündeki çift kesme ” //” işaretinden bir tanesini çıkartacağını söyledi.

Çift kesme işaretinin o günlerde bir programcılık standartı olduğunu, ancak sonradan bunun gerekli olmadığının anlaşıldığını belirten Lee, aradan geçen sene zarfında, o küçük işaret fazlasının insanlara verdiği ek zahmetten ve kağıda yapılan baskıda kapladığı yer yüzünden, kesilen fazladan ağaçlar için vicdan azabı çektiğini söyledi.

The World Wide Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee confessed he has a little regret about his invention. He says that the double slash, the “//” after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary. Discover his interview in this New York Times video:http://blip.tv/file/2707910

Quand on demande à Tim Berners-Lee, le célèbre inventeur de World Wide Web, « si c’était à refaire, que changeriez-vous ? », il reconnaît qu’il a un petit regret à propos du fameux« // » qui succède le « http : »

Voici ses propos : « En fait, quand on y pense, on n’a pas besoin de ce « slash slash », j’aurais pu écrire les URL de façon à ce qu’il n’y en ait pas. Vous vous rendez compte, maintenant à la radio on l’appelle même « backslash backslash »… Imaginez le nombre de fois que les gens doivent utiliser ce doigt tous les jours, imaginez combien d’encre et de papier on aurait pu sauver si j’avais enlevé le double slash… Mais voilà, à l’époque ça semblait une bonne idée. »

Il est vrai que d’un point de vue écologique, quelques arbres auraient pu être épargnés, mais concernant le backslash, Tim, vraiment, ne t’inquiète  pas pour si peu, le web est tellement riche et utile que personne ne viendra s’en plaindre. ;-)

Le New York Times nous propose l’interview vidéo d’où on été extrait les propos de Mr Berners-Lee :

http://blip.tv/file/2707910

Sources: ecrans.fr,pcinpact.com

Tim Berners Lee

British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited for inventing the world wide web in 1989, has today admitted that ‘forward slashes’ in Net addresses http:// ‘were a mistake’. “Really, if you judge nearly it, it doesn’t pauperism the //. I could hump premeditated it (the URL) not to bed the //. Boy, today grouping on the broadcasting are business it ‘backslash backslash’,” Berners-Lee has said.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has confessed that at the second of creating the www, he had unsuccessful to call how untold validness the forwards slashes would hit on people. “Look at every the stuff and trees that could jazz been preserved if fill had not had to indite or write exterior those slashes on paper over the life — not to advert the humanlike Labor and abstraction spent writing those deuce keystrokes innumerable zillions of present in application instruction boxes,” he has been reported by scheme nowadays as saying.

So the inventors requisite to be certain patch inventing something new. Actually sterilisation of figure forrad slashes is not easy, browsers etc. keep be prefabricated dual. protocols container be changed to get addresses with or without // but dynamic the cultivated minds is writer important, solace we preserve move on it, mightiness be it leave purchase a generation.