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The Government has allocated millions to create an Institute for Web Science.
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| Alongside promises for superfast broadband,
| the government today announced Â30 million
| to create an Institute for Web Science,
| lead by web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee and
| professor Nigel Shadbolt.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/621697/tim-berners-lee-gets-30-million-for-web-studies
H.264 - A sting in the tail
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| In the view of Tim Berners-Lee, "the lesson
| from the proliferation of new applications
| and services on top of the web
| infrastructure is that innovation will
| happen provided it has a platform of open
| technical standards, a flexible, scalable
| architecture, and access to these standards
| on royalty-free terms."
|
| H.264 is owned by MPEG-LA, the company that
| runs the patent pool shared between
| companies with patents on the codec. It is
| in the interest of the patent pool to
| encourage adoption of the codec, and to
| this end, MPEG-LA has promised that H.264
| will remain royalty-free until 2016.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2010/03/19/sting-in-the-tail-for-webs-video-codec-search-40082396/
An Overview of HTML5 and Its Anticipated Features
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| âStandards are as interesting as a Russian
| Truck,â said Ken Olsen, president and CEO
| of Digital Equipment Corporation, at that
| time the second largest computer system
| company in the world.
|
| It was a fairly strange statement to come
| from a person whose company had helped
| develop more computer standards than almost
| any other, and the press had a field day
| with that quote. If he said it today, Ken
| might be thought to be addressing HTML5,
| the long-awaited standard of what has
| become the most important publishing
| mechanism on the face of the earth...the
| web.
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http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/294887:an-overview-of-html5-and-its-anticipated-features
Kaltura Brings Video Services to Higher Education
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| Kaltura, an open source online video
| platform, is headed to college. The company
| has partnered with IT consulting firm
| Unicon, Inc. to deliver its video services
| to higher education institutions. Kaltura's
| software already integrates with popular
| learning management systems like Moodle, so
| Unicon's role as an authorized reseller
| will be to do the heavy lifting associated
| with getting the product up and running in
| schools and universities.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/kaltura-brings-video-services-to-higher-education
An Overview of HTML5 and Its Anticipated Features
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| HTML5 will standardize a lot of things that
| have been done âad hocâ over the past ten
| years, and as such will build a solid base
| for the web to build on.
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http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/294887:an-overview-of-html5-and-its-anticipated-features
Kaltura and Partners Launch New Initiatives to Promote Open Video and the HTML5 Standard
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| "The world needs an open video standard
| which allows everyone to produce and share
| video, without licensing fees or browser
| plugins," said Erik Moller, Deputy Director
| of the Wikimedia Foundation. "HTML5 offers
| such a standard, and we have partnered with
| Kaltura to develop an open source HTML5
| video solution for Wikipedia. We encourage
| you to check it out, and to support open
| standards in your web applications.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/kaltura-and-partners-launch-new,1210968.shtml
Microsoft, where did you get those data about OpenDocument?
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| I already explained in another article that
| open file formats are essential to save
| money in Public Administrations and make
| them more efficient and that the right
| choice for office document is the
| OpenDocument Format (ODF).
|
| Since I regularly follow these themes, in
| September 2009 I received this request from
| outside Italy:
|
| I have read in a report that:
| "According to Microsoft Italian
| regional authorities have examined ODF,
| but proposal for adopting ODF as the
| mandatory standard have been rejected"
| (translated by the sender of the
| message). This fact probably comes from
| this Microsoft paper. And we are trying
| to fact check it... can you help?
|
| Back then I knew, just as I know today,
| that there is no law or regulation in
| Italy, not even at the city level, that
| mandates ODF as the only accepted format
| for office documents, regardless of the
| context. What I did come across in the last
| year, instead, were cases where nobody
| seemed to know about ODF or law proposals
| that, albeit unvoluntarily, may make the
| situation even worse. However, I did not
| remember ever reading about proposals of
| that kind.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/digiworld/microsoft-where-did-you-get-those-data-about-opendocument
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