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Double slash in Web addresses 'a bit of a mistake'

According to the founder of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the double-slash in every website address was a "mistake". by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Tim Berners-Lee on the Next Web

Tim Berners-Lee on the Next WebTime to ponderI can see that advertising companies would be very interested in this idea ...... but also that an individual might be able to find out loads of things e.g. from people with similar interests.Sounds like we need to agree on privacy and net...

Tags: INTERNET, Tim Berners-Lee, Next Web

Discussion threads 2009-04-12

Tim Berners-Lee on the Next Web

A great talk by the inventor of the worldwide web Tim Berners-Lee from this year's TED conference, well worth spending 18 minutes of your life with. It's also worth reflecting on how new the internet is: in January 1992 there were only 50...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Data, Channel Management, Web Servers, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-11

Berners-Lee warns of govt, corp. intrusion into Web

Speaking at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee warned Web users that tracking of their Website travels could allow governments and companies to create highly detailed portraits of their online lives, Reuters reports. "That form of snooping I think is really important to avoid," he told an anniversary celebration at...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Intrusion, Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Images: Berners-Lee and the dawn of the Web

The World Wide Web was born in a modest paper document dated March 13, 1989, by Tim Berners-Lee. His boss found it "vague, but exciting." by CNET News.com

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Dawn, Channel Management, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-03-13

Gallery: The World Wide Web hits 20

It's hard to believe that it was only 20 years ago when Tim Berners-Lee submitted "Information Management: a Proposal" to his supervisor - and a year later the World Wide Web was born. by Andy Smith

Tags: WWW, World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-03-13

Berners-Lee: Deep packet inspection compromises Net integrity

Sir Tim Berners-Lee tore into deep packet inspection, a way to monitor Internet traffic, as a technique that could compromise "integrity of the internet as a communications medium." Berners-Lee was speaking in the UK to mark the 20th anniversary of the Web's invention. ZDNet UK reports: ...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Packet Inspection, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-11

Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City

Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Ask questions of Tim Berners-Lee, Nova Spivack and others

On 11 June, Rennsaelaer Polytechnic Institute RPI is hosting a debate to explore the views of luminaries in the evolving Semantic Web. Somewhat unusually, the questions that panellists face will be influenced by "the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world." Anyone can ask a...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Podcast Subject, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing

Speaking from the stage in China's Great Hall of the People last Thursday evening, World Wide Web inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared some of his hopes for the Web with his audience of WWW2008 delegates, impeccably polite and ever-helpful conference volunteers and...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008

The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today Wednesday, but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops. With my colleague Tom Heath one of the co-chairs, a paper pdf from colleagues Rob Styles, Nadeem Shabir and the absent...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for businessInventor of the WWW?Tim "...inventor of the World Wide Web..."Not really, in simple terms all Tim did was come up with the DNS system, the rest already existed and there were already other schemes in place which may well have been better...

Tags: Engineering, JUST LIKE, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, Ontological, G Wells, Tim, inventor, natural language processing, algorithm

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. Our wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Tim Berners-Lee, Business Model, Transcript, Tim, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Tim Berners-Lee dream for Facebook five years hence

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee visited Silicon Valley to speak with scientists and tech executives at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif. this week. In this video clip he offers his view, which he previously expressed in this blog post, about how social networking will evolve in the...

Tags: Facebook, Tim Berners-Lee, Data, Blogging, Channel Management, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-28

Who is afraid of the GGG?

Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere. The GGG, or Giant Global Graph....

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Network, Relationship, Onus, GGG, Tim, Scepticism, WebTop, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global GraphSemantic WebTim Berners-Lee has mentioned the Semantic Web for quite some time. However, his definition of Giant Global Graph is interesting. It combines the Semantic Web with the Social Graph. What happens though when the Social Graph...

Tags: Giant Global Graph, FOAF, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, WWW

Discussion threads 2007-11-22

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph

Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage Techmeme. It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-22

Queen to appoint Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to England's Order of Merit

Although he is already a Knight, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web is about to have an even more prestigious honor bestowed upon him. According to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) spokesperson Janet Daly, Sir Tim will, on Thursday, be appointed to England's Order...

Tags: Web, W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, England, Semantic Web, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Interview: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better thanWeb inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data accessZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind interviews Sir Tim Berner-Lee, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the MITX Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange Technology Awards held at the...

Tags: Semantic Web, inventor, Web Inventor, Tim Berners-Lee

Videos 2007-06-07