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Tag: standards
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A Sign of Search Progress, From an Unexpected Place
Have you ever walked down a city street and stopped to stare up at a skyscraper? Me too. Have you ever stared up at a skyscraper and thought, "Wow, what a massive investment in information management!" I didn't think so.
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CMS Vendors Partner on Open Customer Data Sharing Standard
What the web has always lacked is a reliable and secure way to identify you. Sure, there are ways for you to log onto services, and there are servers in the business of letting you borrow their login mechanisms. But that’s just for letting you in the front door.
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OASIS Approves Updated CMIS Standard
Enterprise content management (ECM) systems now have an updated version of the standard for sharing information. This week, the OASIS international consortium announced that it had approved version 1.
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Acquia Cloud Wins Government Approval with FISMA Certification for Secure Websites
Cloud services provider and major Drupal partner Acquia has won U.S. government certification for providing secure Web services, the company's latest step in its march toward giving customers a measured level of protection and control. Acquia won SSAE 16 (SOC1) certification in June, and the latest move not only provides
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Facebook Pushes for Mobile Browser Standards
At the huge Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain today, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor took the stage announcing the social web giant is backing initiatives to "standardize" mobile web browsers to help deal with what Taylor characterized as "...rampant technology fragmentation across mobile browsers.
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An Introduction to WEMI and the Future of the Online Experience
Like people, computers often lose a few things in translation, some of the minutiae more significant than others.
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W3C Releases Do-Not-Track Standards Drafts
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced drafts of two standards that address Internet privacy concerns. The standards, which focus on users’ ability to specify online tracking preferences, are likely to draw lots of attention, given recent controversies at Google and Twitter due to disclosure of personal information.
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W3C Project Targets Accessible Web Content Authoring Tools
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site) has been busy making the web a more accessible place. In focus today is a project dubbed the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) -- it aims to help software vendors make better web content authoring and management tools, including
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W3C Updates CSS Open Web Standards as Reality and Specs Converge
Cascading style sheets (CSS) has been in use now for over a decade for controlling web page appearance. However, the “standard” has long been a mess of implementations, specifications and varying levels of browser support that can, quite frankly, drive web designers mad, or at least to annoyance.
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W3C Adds Facebook, Sony, Netflix as Members
Just when we thought the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was ready to take a break, it has announced its membership numbers are expanding. Facebook, Sony and Netflix, among others, have joined the venerable web standards organization.
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W3C Moves Its Web of Standards Forward
The W3C (news, site) has certainly been busy as of late. Many are only focusing on the standards monstrosity HTML 5, which includes more than 100 specifications, but the international standards organization has been doing a lot more.
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W3C Announces Web-Sized List of 2011 Priorities
The Internet is such a ubiquitous part of daily existence that its omission from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs must have been accidental.
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Will CMIS Suffer JCR's Fate?
There has been some debate recently about the “demise” of the JCR specification. One of the factors blamed for JCR’s demise is the relatively new CMIS standard. This begs the question: what is to prevent CMIS from the same fate as JCR? Vendor Adoption Probably the most critical
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CMIS: Why It's Good for You and What's Next #nuxeoworld
Florent Guillaume, the head of R&D at Nuxeo (news, site), brought the wonders of CMIS to the attendees of Nuxeo World. As you may know, CMIS was officially ratified by OASIS in May 2010.
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