Tim Berners Lee

Alarm Bells: "Open Web" In Danger, Says Brin, Berners-Lee

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Sergey Brin, Google, Digital Overload, Juan Enriquez, Tim-Oreilly, Steve Rosenbaum, Tim Berners-Lee, Steven Rosenbaum, Technology News

One thing is certain. Politicians throughout the democratic world are pushing for stronger censorship and surveillance by Internet companies to stop the theft of intellectual property.

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Internet's Creator: Web Access Is A Human Right

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Internet Human Right, Internet Access, Web Access, Tim Berners Lee Web, Poll, Web Human Right, Net Neutrality, Tim Berners-Lee, Technology News

We're living in a world where Internet access should be as readily available as water, according to the man who helped create the web, Tim Berners-Lee...

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The World Wide Web Foundation

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Impact News

Hey, there are a lot of good groups advancing the cause of the open net, and also extending that to people who need a break. One particularly effecti...

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Tim Berners-Lee Says WikiLeaks Is Not Open Government Data

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Open Data, Wikileaks, Government 2.0, Open Government, Tim Berners-Lee, Gov 2.0, Technology News

Earlier this week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, expressed his views on WikiLeaks, putting himself inline with President Obama as to what constitutes open government.

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Tim Berners-Lee Warns Against Facebook Threat: Social Network Fragments Web

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Internet, Tim Berners Lee, Google, Internet, Linked In, Itunes, Verizon, Social Networking, Web, Open Web, Sir Tim Berners Lee, Facebook, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Ownership, Technology News

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, warned that social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Friendster constitute one of "severa...

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First International Open Government Data Conference Features the Power of Platforms

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gov 2.0, Open Data, Government 2.0, Open Government, Tim Berners-Lee, Vivek Kundra, Technology News

Is sunlight the best disinfectant, as Supreme Court Justice Brandeis famously said? This week in Washington, D.C., hundreds of experts have come toge...

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Founder Of The Internet's 4 Major Concerns About The Web

readwriteweb.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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This morning at Nokia World 2010 in London, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely known as the inventor of the Web, addressed the audience in a keynote speech w...

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Interop Rolls into NYC Celebrating Technology and Innovation

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Berners Lee, Innovative Technologies, Dennis Crowley, There Were Dozens, First Thought, Caretaker, Video Interview, Unified Communications, Sergey Brin, Virtualization, 25th Birthday, Heymann, Eric Goldstein, Bill Gates, Conference Took Place, Linus Torvalds, Thought Leaders, Interop Las Vegas, Technology News

Technology has been the ever-present caretaker throughout our history. It has been the muse for thought leaders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus To...

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The End of the Book

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rita-Dove, Education Reform, Shel Silverstein, Books, Tim Berners-Lee, Impact News

In 1994 Rita Dove was the Poet Laureate of the United States, Tim Berners-Lee formed The World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, and I was a new public school superintendent.

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Safely Surfing the Public Wi-Fi

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

This post was co-authored with Joel Fernandez. If you would like to ask Joel any questions please email him at joelfernandezny@gmail.com. The World ...

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T-Mobile and the Mobile Broadband Future

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Berners Lee, Internet Traffic, Cern, Information Superhighway, T Mobile, Networking Index, Communications Platform, Mobile Operators, Telephone Companies, Hspa, Smartphones, Technology News

The Information Superhighway has grown at an explosive pace -- 399.3% since 2000. A significant part of this wildfire growth is due to smartphones.

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Friendly Competition Amongst US & UK Advances Government 2.0 and Open Data

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open-Data-Environment, Government 2.0, United Kingdom, The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee, Data, Open Government, Technology News

In a session on perspectives of the United Kingdom's data.gov.uk initiative from this week's Gov 2.0 Expo, Tim Berners-Lee opened with an anecdote abo...

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If Mark Zuckerberg Invented the Web

David Weinberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Web, Mark Zuckerberg, html5, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Facebook, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee, Technology News

Imagine an alternative universe in which Mark Zuckerberg is born before Tim Berners-Lee, and invents the Web. This alternative history writes its own ending: The Web would be a boring, small, and of little consequence.

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Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Statistics, TED Talks, Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, Web, Ted, ted2010, Computers, Tedtalks, Visualizations, Technology News

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the Web.

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Tim Berners-Lee Government Data Project Unveiled

BBC News | BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Government, UK Government, Government Data, Tim Berners Lee Project, Bbc News, data.gov.uk, Freedom of Information, Tim Berners-Lee, Technology News

Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled his latest venture for the UK government, which offers the public better access to official data....

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Tim Berners-Lee Apologizes For Forward Slashes In URLs

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"....

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Re-Creating Creation, Take 2: The Large Hadron Collider Fires Up Again

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 05.25.2011

Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.

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Video: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Says the Semantic Web Has Arrived and the Obama Administration is "Onboard"

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Semantic Web, Finland, Obama Administration, data.gov, World Wide Web, Steve Lohr, Tim Berners-Lee, Technology News

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.

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Tim Berners-Lee Joins Twitter

techcrunch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, credited for inventing this little thing called the World Wide Web, has signed up for Twitter in a move that could...

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Internet!

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Worldwide Web, Jonathan Zittrain, Internet, Google, Apple, Arpanet, Leonard Kleinrock, Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Media News

The Internet's founders are increasingly concerned that burdensome barriers may squash future innovation before it happens.

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The Webbys: What I Saw, What I Said

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Martha Stewart, Biz Stone, Webby Awards, Seth Myers, Webbys, Charlie Rose, Tim Berners-Lee, Media News

Lots of memorable moments at this year's Webby Awards. It was great having some of our HuffPost Politics team make the trip up from DC to celebrate our wins as Best Politics Site and Best Political Blog. I particularly enjoyed the way the organizers of the event paired people from the new media with people from the traditional media -- concluding with Martha Stewart presenting the Breakout of the Year award to Twitter cofounder Biz Stone (his five word acceptance speech: "Creativity is a renewable resource"). As for my five-word speech, I ended up going with: "I didn't kill newspapers...okay?" READ MORE I'll be guest hosting CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning 7-9 am EDT, and will be interviewing Nassim Taleb, Jim Grant, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis). I'd love to have your help deciding what to ask them. Please post your suggested questions in the comments section.

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Mining Geithner's Daybook

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arlen Specter, Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, Sunlight Foundation, Semantic Web, Kirsten Gillibrand, Social Networking, Tim Berners-Lee, Politics News

While the prospect of having the public leaf through one's daybook may send chills down the spines of public officials, this level of public exposure is the wave of the future.

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The Treasure of Temporary Tribes

Chip Conley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tribes, Experience Economy, TED Conference, Tim Berners-Lee, Tedtalks, Business News

Why would someone pay $6,000 to go to the TED conference when they could watch the talks online for free? There's great parties and lots of star-sightings. But, it's something deeper than that.

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The TED Conference: Day One: Highlights

Christiana Wyly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Berners Lee, Entertainment, Change the World, Design, Bill Gates, Life-Changing, Nandan Nilekani, Clean Coal Myth, The TED Conference, Bill Gates Mosquitoes, World-Changing, Jacqueline Novogratz, Seth Godin, Palm Springs, Overpopulation, TED Unveiling, Tribes, Al Gore Clean Coal, Evolution, Homo-Evolutis, Disney, Technology, Oceans, TED.Com, Jake Eberts, Ted 2009, Worldchanging, TED Conference, Unveiling, Green News

I decided to do a series of highlights to share some reflections from TED. The range of the unveilings in the fields of art, music, and technology have been astonishing.

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Knight Journalism Award Stokes Denver Indie-Media Community

adrienne russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knight News Challenge, dailyKos Big Tent, Denver Shawcross, Youtube Big Tent, Google Big Tent, Dialog:City, Free Speech TV Democracy Now!, Tim Berners-Lee, Denver Convention, Denver Open Media, Tony Shawcross, Denver Media, Knight News, Free Speech TV, Knight Challenge, Home News

The Knight Foundation chose Denver Open Media as one of its blockbuster award winners, adding to media buzz there in the months leading to the Democratic National Convention.

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