I think most of us know in general where the World Wide Web was created, even who by. It was at Cern and by Sir Tim Berners Lee. Thats easy enough to find out and its been in enough newspaper and magazine articles (to say nothing of stories about Sir Tim) over the years.

But thank heaven for nerds and geeks who decide to really find out the details. For it is through research efforts like this that we get to find out exactly where the creation happened.

Ill bet if you asked every French politician where the web was invented not a single one would know this. The Franco-Swiss border runs through the CERN campus and building 31 is literally just a few feet into France. However, there is no explicit border within CERN and the main entrance is in Switzerland, so the situation of which country it was invented in is actually quite a tricky one.

Given the French general wariness over new technology and its potentially disruptive impacts I do rather like the fact that it all happened in a part of France that you cannot get to from France.

And yes, it is worth clicking through to that piece. There are photos of the exact spot where the WWW was created. Trivial to some perhaps, it being the use of the WWW that is wondrous. But its also interesting to be able to put an exact time and place to such an invention.

There are tons of ways to get exposure to your targeted exposure to your product on the Internet, but with the advent of the social web, the opportunities have simply magnified. Seven years ago marketing was different on the World Wide Web, was not as easy as it is today. Are you looking to tap into your target market, then Twitter happens to be a part of this social revolution that is turning out to be a huge success amongst internet marketers. A micro blogging service like Twitter, not only helps you get direct exposure for your product or service, but allows you to connect with prospects and build a relationship with them.

Do you like to Tweet: Build your reputation by posting interesting tweets. If there are a number of people following you, then you dont want that number to go down, you want it to grow. On Twitter its really easy to follow and unfollow as well as lose followers. Making sure youre not random on your niche, with keep your eye on the target in your Tweet. Your followers should never feel that they arent getting any value from you, so put in the effort to make each tweet interesting.

Looking for Top Keywords: A tool like TweetVolume.com can be used to search for top keywords to know what you should write about. A lot of these keywords will be the trend of the season, so if you can write about that, you should be able to attract a lot more responses from your followers. But dont deviate from your niche topic; keep your tweets as related to it as possible so that your followers get the kind of content theyre looking for.

It pays to spy on the competition in your niche in order for you to have a better idea of whats being promoted and the response to those promotions. You will then have a better idea of how to better serve your own followers giving them more value. In a way you are only giving your own followers a richer experience by looking at your own competition.

We can see that no matter the size of Twitter, it will always help you reach out to your connections in the best possible way. The way for a business to build strong relationships with their audience is to utilize Twitter.

As mobile applications running under proprietary platforms – iOS, Android, Windows, etc – proliferate the World Wide Web community has a vision to build equivalent functionality into the browser specifications so that application writers will have access to a much wider community without lock in to any one platform.

The Ghana government in collaboration with World Wide Web Foundation (WWWF), an NGO, is to commence the implementation of the Ghana Open Data Initiative to make government data available to citizens for re-use.

The initiative if implemented will make government more transparent, improve efficiency and spark off innovation from the demand side for applications to be developed to better serve the citizenry.

Mr William Tevie, Director General of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), announced this at a stakeholders meeting to sign a memorandum of Understanding between Government of Ghana and WWWF in Accra on Thursday.

He said in September 2010, Ghana made a commitment to join the open Government partnership, an initiative of the United State Government.

“This was a commitment by the Government of Ghana to work towards an open Government data initiative, which will make Government data available to the citizens for re-use,” he added.

Mr explained that providing Government data without developing an open data community that works towards making it meaningful and re-usable by the citizenry would not serve the interest of the state.

He noted that over the years the agency has been rolling out the e-government infrastructure and facilitating the roll-out of e-government application.

The aim of the project in rolling out the network is to ensure efficiency within government and improved services for citizens and business.

Mr Jose Alonso, Data Programme Manager, WWWF, said they were in the country to share their experience and expertise and to support government in the implementation process.

He noted that the initiative would increase transparency of governments; boost number of services to people, new business opportunities and jobs for application and service developers, new synergies between government, public administration, and civil society organizations.

“It will also increase citizen participation and inclusion through extended offers of services closer to them and new, innovative uses of data in a ways that owners of data would never have thought of,” he added.

He observed that for data to be useful, it should be complete, primary, timeliness, ease of physical and electronic access and machine readability.

Mr Alonso called for stakeholder support to fulfill Government’s commitment to the open government partnership.

Dr Nii Quaynor, Board Chairman of NITA, called for the development of a multi-sectorial ownership of the initiative to enhance transparency and accountability in government institutions.

Source: GNA

Just imagine if your multibillion-dollar business depended on it, as Googles does. Then imagine the glee in Googles corridors at a significant new victory in the companys attempt to build a web-accelerating technology it calls SPDY into the internet.

Mark Nottingham, chairman of the HTTPbis Working Group, announced support for SPDY in an overhaul of one of the networking foundations of the world wide web. That foundation is HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and Google hopes SPDY will open up some of its bottlenecks.

The HTTPbis group, part of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has been sprucing up the 1999-era HTTP 1.1 for several years. But Nottingham said its now time to look to the future.

There seems to be broad agreement that the time is ripe to start work on a new version of HTTP in the IETF, and that it should happen in this Working Group, Nottingham said. When work refurbishing HTTP 1.1 began, there wasnt interest in a new version of HTTP, but SPDY and its adoption shows theres interest now, he said, proposing completion of a draft of HTTP 2.0 by May and finish the work by July 2013.

Speed boost

In Googles research, SPDY accelerates page-load times by 28 per cent to 43 per cent over a 2Mbps DSL line and 44 per cent to 55 per cent over a 4Mbps cable broadband connection.

Standardisation is often a drawn-out, painstaking affair, but it can pay off by making a particular technology easier to incorporate in a wide range of products. A neutral industry standard can be technically, politically and legally easier to embrace.

Tinkering with the basic workings of the web is a tricky business given the immense variety of browsers, servers and network gear in between. Google has made progress with SPDY, though, since unveiling SPDY in 2009 and then building it into its Chrome browser.

SPDY is a high-profile element of Googles make the web faster effort. Yesterday, the company also detailed proposed improvements to TCP, an even more fundamental internet technology. The Transmission Control Protocol governs how a huge amount of data is sent over the net despite problems such as network congestion or lost packets of data.

Google is in many ways perfectly positioned to rebuild the net. Its got the worlds most-trafficked websites and measurements that show that speed means profits. Its got the number three browser, Chrome, so it can experiment with technology that works hand-in-hand with its websites. And its got an army of research-minded engineers encouraged to think big.

Those assets dont always equate to success, though, when it comes to rewiring the web in particular given that Googles self-interest means that its ideas can raise competitors hackles. Microsoft and Mozilla, for example, while sharing Googles interest in making the web a better foundation for programming, are leery of Googles Dart programming language that competes with the incumbent JavaScript.

Has a slow Web been getting you down lately?

Just imagine if your multibillion-dollar business depended on it, as Googles does. Then imagine the glee in Googles corridors at a significant new victory in the companys attempt to build a Web-accelerating technology it calls SPDY into the Internet.

Earlier today, Mark Nottingham, chairman of the HTTPbis Working Group, announced support for SPDY in an overhaul of one of the networking foundations of the World Wide Web. That foundation is HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and Google hopes SPDY will open up some of its bottlenecks.

The HTTPbis group, part of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has been been sprucing up the 1999-era HTTP 1.1 for several years. But Nottingham said its now time to look to the future.

There seems to be broad agreement that the time is ripe to start work on a new version of HTTP in the IETF, and that it should happen in this Working Group, Nottingham said. When work refurbishing HTTP 1.1 began, there wasnt interest in a new version of HTTP, but SPDY and its adoption shows theres interest now, he said, proposing completion of a draft of HTTP 2.0 by May and finish the work by July 2013.

Speed boost
In Googles research, SPDY accelerates page-load times by 28 percent to 43 percent over a 2Mbps DSL line and 44 percent to 55 percent over a 4Mbps cable broadband connection.

Standardization is often a drawn-out, painstaking affair, but it can pay off by making a particular technology easier to incorporate in a wide range of products. A neutral industry standard can be technically, politically, and legally easier to embrace.

Tinkering with the basic workings of the Web is a tricky business given the immense variety of browsers, servers, and network gear in between. Google has made progress with SPDY, though, since unveiling SPDY in 2009 and then building it into its Chrome browser.

SPDY is a high-profile element of Googles make the Web faster effort. Yesterday, the company also detailed proposed improvements to TCP an even more fundamental Internet technology. The Transmission Control Protocol governs how a huge amount of data is sent over the Net despite problems such as network congestion or lost packets of data.

Google is in many ways perfectly positioned to rebuild the Net. Its got the worlds most-trafficked Web sites and measurements that show that speed means profits. Its got the No. 3 browser, Chrome, so it can experiment with technology that works hand-in-hand with its Web sites. And its got an army of research-minded engineers encouraged to think big.

Those assets dont always equate to success, though, when it comes to rewiring the Web–in particular given that Googles self-interest means that its ideas can raise competitors hackles. Microsoft and Mozilla, for example, while sharing Googles interest in making the Web a better foundation for programming, are leery of Googles Dart programming language that competes with the incumbent JavaScript.

SPDY milestones
One earlier milestone was SPDYs inclusion in Amazons Silk, the browser on its Kindle Fire
tablets. A more recent one is that Firefox 11 introduces SPDY support, too.

I think with Firfox on board with SPDY, its got legs, said Mike Belshe, who along with Roberto Peon invented SPDY at Google. (Belshe since has moved to a start-up, Twist. Well get it (or its derivative) standardized in 2012 for sure.

Technical details and a SPDY white paper show how it works and what it offers. It employs a number of tricks to speed up Web page transfers, including compression, prioritization of important Web page elements, and a way to sidestep todays limits on opening multiple network connections.

One technical detail that historians might be interested in is what exactly SPDY stands for. The answer: nothing. It doesnt stand for anything, Belshe said, but it sounds like speedy.

Adding SPDY isnt the only possible way to improve HTTP, and Nottingham acknowledged that it will be a tightrope walk to admit some HTTP improvements without getting bogged down in massive rework of the technology.

FreeBSD programmer Poul-Henning Kamp was unenthusiastic about Nottinghams proposal, though, because he sees it as too narrow in scope. He also asked where in Nottinghams proposal there is room for evaluating other suggestions

In my mind, the effort [Nottingham] sketched out would be correctly titled Beatify the SPDY protocol as a carrier of HTTP/1.1 traffic, Kamp said in his devils advocate response. HTTP/2.0 would in my mind be an attempt to actually improve the protocol.

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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has voiced his frustrations about SOPA, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Speaking at IBMs annual Lotusphere conference, Berners-Lee said, If youre in America then you should go and call somebody or send an email to protest against these (censorship) bills because they have not been put together to respect human rights as is appropriate in a democratic country.

SOPA is currently being held for markup, which means it may see some changes considering all the criticism its drawn.

Archive founder Brewster Kahle will be given the first SIIA Peter E. Jackson Innovation Award during the SIIAs annual Codie Awards dinner, held during the organizations Information Industry Summit this week in New York.

Brewster gets you thinking out of the box, and helps you start imagining a world that is different from the one you are living in, said Kathy Greenler Sexton, vice president of the SIIA Content Division.

The SIIA named the new award after the late Thomson Reuters vice president and chief scientist, Peter Jackson, who served on the SIIA board for the associations content division. The award will honor individuals who advance the way people work with information. We are looking for people who have had a profound impact on technology and information, but who also have a very giving way, Sexton said.

During a time when the World Wide Web was still new for most people, Kahle had the idea to capture and preserve large portions of the vast new medium, so the material can be viewed in the future after the originators had deleted or changed the content. The average life of a Web page was 100 days before it was changed or deleted, he said. The project began collecting material in 1996 and made it available to the public starting in 2001.

Kahle got the idea for Internet Archive after visiting the home of AltaVista, the first large-scale search engine service. He saw that a copy of the entire Web, then about 30 million pages, could fit into racks of servers the size of two vending machines. We could do that, he thought at the time.

People said it was impossible, or that we were crazy, Kahle said.

The archive is now a full-fledged nonprofit library, one that collects copies of Web pages as well as software, audio recordings, books and other forms of media. Thus far, it has massed more than 2.7 billion pages, 2 million books, 1 billion audio files and 600,000 movies. The service is used by about 2 million people a day.

Even before the Internet Archive, Kahle was one of the early leading proponents in thinking about information on a global scale. In mid-1985, he worked with famous physicist Richard Feynman to calculate whether it would be possible to digitize all the books, music and movies of the world, an idea then few people thought possible. We found that it was all-around doable, he said. In 1989, he created WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), a widely used, pre-Web Internet data retrieval system for publishers to share their content online.

While SIIAs membership is made up of chiefly large organizations, Kahles ideas have made a major impact in the SIIA community.

Our members are really inspired by his forward thinking and view in what he is trying to do with content, and where he thinks the Internet is going, Greenler Sexton said. There is a lot of learning that can be had between something that is very consumer-focused and something that is focused on the enterprise.

Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joabs e-mail address is Joab_Jackson@idg.com

Internet companies have been urged to establish a final standardised system that will allow users to control their privacy settings across websites.

Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda, reiterated her demand that the technology be agreed upon by June in a speech at a meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), according to a report by ZDNet.

Atlanta, GA, January 28, 2012 –(PR.com)– MediPurpose, a master medical product distributor and manufacturer, announced today that it recently re-launched its Website after migrating it to the Joomla content management system.

Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets, and a model-view-controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.

The decision to migrate MediPurposes Website to Joomla was done to further support the companys commitment to innovation-both for the development, manufacturing and distribution of its medical products, as well as its marketing.

A medical product company Website is a crucial hub in its marketing and communications, said MediPurpose Director of Marketing Derek Rudnak. A Joomla-based Website enables us to better enhance the user experience for our guests that seek information about our innovative products and services, as well as to embrace social media and other cutting-edge methods to reach them.

Additionally, we strive to provide resources that let medical device innovators and manufacturers learn from us, such as with our how-to guides, success stories and blogs.

Since its inception in 1999 as a startup in Singapore, the Internet and online marketing have been instrumental in the medical device companys success.

Rudnak said that MediPurpose founder and CEO Patrick Yi was cognizant of the tremendous potential of Internet and e-mail marketing opportunities that would let him initiate introductions to US medical product distributors from his Singapore office. Those efforts helped the unknown, fledgling company tap crucial US medical product distribution channels.

About MediPurpose

Founded in 1999, MediPurpose is a leading medical device company headquartered in Singapore, with offices in the United States and Europe.

Known for its popular babyLance(r) heel incision device, SurgiLance(r) safety lancet and MediPlus(tm) advanced wound care products, MediPurpose has leveraged its success in the medical device industry to become a master medical product distributor that provides unique solutions for both medical product manufacturers and distributors.

MediPurposes Medical Device Innovation division offers angel funding and developmental expertise for new medical device inventors and innovative medical product companies that seek entrance into new medical device markets.

For more information about MediPurposes medical products and solutions for inventors, innovators, manufacturers and distributors, please visit http://www.medipurpose.com.

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