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Famous in Korea!

Daniel AppelquistPosted on March 4, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 1 Comment

François Daoust of W3C and I were interviewed by the Korean press about the work of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices working group. Unfortunately, the article hasn’t been translated so I have no idea what they said about us, …

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Tagged with: ETNews, Korea, MobileWeb, MWI, Seoul, W3C

Why am I Going to Korea?

Daniel AppelquistPosted on March 2, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 2 Comments

I’m sitting in the Korean Airlines lounge in Narita (Tokyo) airport after an 11 hour flight from London, watching a seemingly endless succession of JAL 747s taking off. When I arrived, there were no promised uniformed agents showing me the …

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Tagged with: Korea, mobile2.0, MobileWeb, MWI, W3C

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I work at Samsung where I head up the developer advocacy group for Samsung Internet. 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 am a parent dealing with the increasing complexities of raising teens in a hyper-connected world.

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