WWW Trivia

Did you know that “www” (pronounced as “double you double you double you”) is the longest possible three-letter acronym to pronounce in English. With nine syllables, it would not be impossible to imagine that some Web users might find the acronym a bit tricky to pronounce when used in everyday conversations. Fortunately, there are shorter pronunciations for such people like “triple double you”, “dub dub dub”, or “wuh wuh wuh”. Also, the World Wide Web has its own Mandarin Chinese version and is translated to wàn wéi wÇŽng (万维网). It literally means “ten-thousand dimensional net” and is quite a fitting definition for something as vast and powerful as the Web.

Making Web Content Accessible

In an effort to make web content accessible for everyone who wishes to access the Web, including disabled users and user agents like the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used for mobile phones, the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative had released Web accessibility guidelines called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The guidelines have 3 priority levels:

Priority 1: Web developers must satisfy these requirements, otherwise it will be impossible for one or more groups to access the Web content. Conformance to this level is described as “A”.
Priority 2: Web developers should satisfy these requirements, otherwise some groups will find it difficult to access the Web content. Conformance to this level is described as “AA” or “double A”.
Priority 3: Web developers may satisfy these requirements, in order to make it easier for some groups to access the Web content. Conformance to this level is described as “AAA” or “triple A”.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines

Mobile Internet and Clouds

The introduction of the many mobiles and smart-phones that are capable of accessing the internet have grown as fast as the number of users the net gains day by day and with that, the rest of the internet has evolved, following suit. Most web sites that have growing mobile users have stripped down versions of their pages to allow people using them to gain access as if they were using their desktops. Social bookmarking has allowed us to surf the web and keep tabs on all the sites we are interested in for further review later. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Net – Censored Net ?!?!?

The internet has indeed become one of the most sociable technological wonders the world over yet it has been also subject to controversy time and time again. in countries where the government seeks to control the influx and outflow on information, it is censored and filtered, maybe using keywords or user name databases to block and deny access to them. The upcoming anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Events is sure to get some attention from the Chinese authorities and in the past, Iran has done some filtering of their own when elections and other events of international significance tends to be cut-off from the rest of the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Sites – Fast Becoming Favorites

Of hackers as they try to find ways of spreading their wares, stealing the identities of unsuspecting people and cashing in on other people’s hard earned cash. The many budding social sites that are popping out all over the place, deemed as revolutionary startups are falling one by one to hackers who are after their sites, or their members who are running into the millions ripe fruits for the picking of their wrongdoing. Read the rest of this entry »

The Continuing Conficker Menace

Security centers around the world have found that the famed conficker worm has again sprung back to life at the expected time and date April 1, April Fools Day. This was marked by updates sent to the sleeping code that told it to revise it’s strategy allowing it to circumvent many of the measures put in place to battle the long running malware that is estimated to have infected 9 million computers according to the latest estimates.
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What if, Tim?

The World Wide Web or the web as we know it, is a medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. It is often used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is only a service that operates on the Internet just like e-mail does. If Tim Berners-Lee had decided to patent his idea in 1989, the Internet would be so much different now. The Internet has many creators namely,Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. They came up with a system to let different computer networks interconnect and communicate. Ray Tomlinson, is the creator of e-mail and the “@” symbol while Ted Nelson, coined the term hypertext and many others. But only one person conceptualized the World Wide Web. In fact, Berners-Lee first called it a “mesh”, before changing it to a “web”. Because he and Robert Cailliau, insisted on a license-free technology, today a Gateway computer operating on a Linux and a browser made by Netscape can see the same Web page as any other personal computers would. If his employer CERN sought royalties, the world would have 16 different “Webs” on the Internet today.

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Touch your Browser. Take A Closer Look.

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Exhausted of Pocket Internet Explorer? Forget about the stylus, the tiny scrollbars and the keyhole view of the internet. TouchBrowser gives you the effortless webbrowsing knowledge of the iPh0ne, right on your Pocket PC.

You can use you finger to move the webpage around the screen. Toggle between mobile view and desktop view. A large finger-keyboard lets you enter URLs with ease, or enter Google searches directly from the keyboard.

The software works on all Pocket PCs, with all versions of Windows Mobile. Get iPhone-style internet browsing on your Pocket PC. TouchBrowser lets you control everything using only your fingers. You can type using the large keyboard, slide along through web content and scroll through pages with a flick, with full page view.

BenToWeb: Benchmarking Tools and Methods for the Web

Over the years, Web content accessibility has played a crucial role in the World Wide Web in the sense that it has become a determinant factor in the way the Web has evolved and progressed. A good number of organizations dedicated to the maintenance of the Web through common standards and guidelines had already been created and Web users are now finding the Web a lot more accessible and manageable than before. One project that had been born out of the idea of enhancing Web content accessibility was BenToWeb, a project from the Web Accessibility Benchmarking (WAB) Cluster. It was founded in order to support the European public and private sector in the application of the recommendations of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan. Though the project has ended on September 30, 2007, BenToWeb continues to offer benchmarking tools and methods that can help in creating a more accessible Web.

Knowing Website Design Styles

It would be helpful to familiarize ourselves with how websites differ from each other in terms of design and style, according to cultural and social factors, in order to see clearly how the Web has evolved over the years. Websites are also communities that is why we can observe that design and styles are dictated by what is deemed appropriate and appealing to a certain group of people. For example, websites from Mainland China have their distinctive pop-up windows which can be opened by using left-clicks, while Japanese websites are characterized by the use of bright colors and anime characters. There are other websites, such as those from the Netherlands and other Dutch-speaking online groups, which place emphasis on the use of flash and visual images to enhance the look of innovativeness.