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Google Docs Graduation Day

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 27, 2006 Posted in Web 2.0 No Comments

Google Docs (née “Writely”) and Spreadsheets have graduated. Two weeks ago, Google quietly moved Google Spreadsheets and the newly christened Google Docs over from one side of the Google Labs page to the other (the “graduated” products). No big announcement …

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What’s 2.0 2.0?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 21, 2006 Posted in Web 2.0 4 Comments

You know — I used to be the kind of guy who sneered at people who said things like “Web 2.0” or “whatever 2.0.” I still am. I am not by nature a joiner. For the longest time in the …

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Web 2.0

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 20, 2006 Posted in Web 2.0 No Comments

Wow! So now in addition to the mobile2.0 I’ve been organizing on the 6th of November, it looks like I’ll also be on a panel entitled “The Mobile Discussion” at the Web 2.0 conference on the 7th. Looks like it’s …

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Back in the UK

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2006 Posted in Travel, Web No Comments

I’m back in the UK after almost 10 days in Spain. We held the Mobile Web Initiative Best Practices meeting where much good work was done. I sampled the famous cider of the Asturias region. I drove to Bilbao and …

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Device Description Nirvana

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 11, 2006 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 4 Comments

So I’m off to Madrid for the Mobile Web Initiative Device Descriptions workshop. What is this all about? While I’ve been busying myself with chairing a working group on Mobile Web Best Practices, Rotan Hanrahan from MobileAware has been chairing …

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Even "The Register" Agrees

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 3, 2006 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 2 Comments

The Mobile Web Best Practices “show a new awareness of the need to help websites work better on small screens.” Ok — so the title of the article is “W3C guidelines inadequate” but for the Register, this reads like a …

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News Travels Fast

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on June 29, 2006 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C No Comments

Wow! Let’s take a look at where that news item about the Mobile Web Best Practices has gone as of yesterday evening. You can tell which are based on the Reuters article and which are based on the original W3C …

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Reuters Misspelled My Name

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on June 28, 2006 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 3 Comments

Reuters did a great article on the Mobile Web Best Practices. Too bad they misspelled my name, misquoted me and got about 2 out of 4 facts wrong. Now I know that I have a name that invites misspelling, but …

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W3C to Help the NSA Snoop Social Networks?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on June 10, 2006 Posted in Politics, W3C, Web 2.0 8 Comments

Here’s an interesting article on the unintended consequences of social networking. Basically, it is reported that the NSA is snooping social networking sites (with the juicy twist that it plans to do so using Semantic Web technology – more on …

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Toddlers 2.0

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 29, 2006 Posted in Kids, Web 2.0 No Comments

The experience my kids (2 and 4) have of media is radically different from my experience when I was growing up. Of course, they clamor to watch certain programs and it’s always a challenge to balance the “right” amount of …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk.

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