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Ex-Novell CTO takes web leadership post

The World Wide Web Consortium has a new leader who wants to streamline some of the group's standardisation efforts and beef up its ties with outside programmers. Read more »

Sydney Ignite 3: Videos

October 8 marked the third installment of Sydney Ignite, a night of presentations with the unique format of 20 slides shown in 5 mintues with each slide automatically changing after 15 seconds. You can now watch, in no particular order, eleven presentations from the night. Read more »

Microsoft files lawsuits over online 'malvertising'

Aiming to crack down on a growing problem, Microsoft said it filed five lawsuits on Thursday against parties it suspects of posting online advertisements laden with malicious code. Read more »

Researchers exploit flaws in SSL, domain authentication system

Two researchers have separately uncovered flaws in the way domain names are verified on the internet that could allow attackers to impersonate a site and steal information from unsuspecting web surfers. Read more »

Salesforce.com has cloud in its Sites

Businesses can now build and run their external websites using technology from software-as-a-service company Salesforce.com. Read more »

Microsoft: Social network concepts work great in business

During an on-stage chat at Web 2.0 Expo, Steven Elop, Microsoft's president of the business division, defended himself against conference instigator Tim O'Reilly's challenge that Microsoft's traditional office apps aren't making, and may not be able to make, a successful transition to the web. Read more »

O'Reilly: The web is still learning, but it can teach too

The floor of the exposition hall at this year's Web 2.0 Expo has been a little bit lethargic, to say the least. "It's a lot emptier than last year," said one representative from a social gaming company that had set up a booth. "I think the 'Web 2.0' thing has become a bit of a stigma." Read more »

Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in

Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said that the Semantic Web will make the privacy of online communcations stronger, and will allow people to control who can use their data. Read more »

SAP to cut 3,000 jobs

SAP, one of the world's largest software-application companies, overnight released healthy results for its fourth quarter, but said it planned to cut 3,000 staff in the face of tough economic times. Read more »

Sick Steve Jobs steps down until July

Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs will step down from his CEO post while recuperating from a hormone imbalance, with his absence to stretch until the end of June. Read more »

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Features (38)

Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »

O'Reilly: The web is at war, and it's making me sad

Web pioneer and conference honcho Tim O'Reilly warned the audience at the Web 2.0 Expo here on Tuesday afternoon that he thinks "we're headed into another ugly time". Read more »

An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2

XHTML 2, a technology intended to build a more powerful Web from the ground up, met a quiet end last week, spotlighting the difficulties of standardisation in a fast-moving Internet. Introduced in 2002, XHTML 2 was a centerpiece of standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Read more »

Perils of adding fields to database tables

If you're not careful, when you add a field to a database table, you may cause all sorts of problems. This article looks at two such scenarios, and how you can plan for their occurrence. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

The server crash that wasn't

The first sign of trouble was the paging and the frantic calls to my extension. "Tim, the server is down. Help!" Those are dreaded words that a network administrator never wants to hear. Read more »

Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test

Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly Read more »

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Getting to know ColdFusion 8

In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »

Developing an HTML-formatted mail message

The task of including HTML in e-mail is not so simple as it seems, Tony Patton runs through some tips. Read more »

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Tim Buntel and the Tale of Scorpio

Chatting about the upcoming release of ColdFusion 8 called Scorpio with Tim Buntel, Adobe's ColdFusion Marketing Manager. Read more »

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How online self-publishing is transforming - Tim Parsons

Tim Parson discusses how publishing one's own books has changed due to the internet at Sydney Ignite 3. Read more »

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Compassion and collaboration - Tim Ayling

It's important to intorduce compassion and collaboration into business says Tim Ayling at Sydney Ignite 3 Read more »

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Google demos prototype of mobile Gmail app

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundrota showed off the prototype of a new Web-based Gmail app that could one day be used on any smartphone. By using HTML 5 standards, he predicts, developers will no longer have to choose just one platform to write for. When the app is released, users will be able to archive and use their e-mail even when not online. Moderator: Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media Read more »

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Microsoft's Web 2.0 vision for business

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, explains how Microsoft plans to apply Web 2.0 technology, such as self-service and groups of people contributing to applications, to the enterprise. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Elops also details Microsoft's plans to release ad-supported programs. Read more »

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Getting to know ColdFusion 8

In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »

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Tim Buntel and the Tale of Scorpio

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Blog (7)

Chrome gets bookmark sync with version 4.x

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has issued the first developer preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, a phase that should bring some advanced features in the forthcoming HTML 5 specification for web pages but that for now just sports a cloud-based bookmark synchronisation tool. Read more »

Playing with semantics

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Semantic Web, Microsoft's upcoming app store and a security flaw in Google Docs are amongst some topics that made news this week. Find out more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

W3C releases mobileOK

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »

Down to Semantics

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »

How soon is Semantic?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »

What's hot with Linux Luminaries

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Check out our video of renown FOSS developers giving their 2 cents on technology, companies, and girl bands. Read more »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

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