OneWebDay

This OneWebDay celebration is something worth being part of because it's a small part of the history of the web. I hope this event happens every year, as the organisers plan.

I've just read on the BBC news web site that it's OneWebDay http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5368190.stm, and bloggers are being encouraged to talk about this in their posts. This is important to me because most of the research I've undertaken for my PhD would not have been possible without the web, and particularly others research in the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. Particularly Tim Berners Lee's http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ work has been a big influence.

Research into End User Programming using web technologies would have been difficult without the underlying technologies based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language), developed as part of the semantic web. Tim Berners Lee's work has been a big influence. Particularly important is research to take technologies from the Semantic Web, and apply this to web applications. Web 2.0 - Now people are also creating Rich Internet Applications using Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) the whole area of world wide web research is so interesting and fast moving.

In the BBC article it says

'Susan Crawford, the founder of OneWebDay, said she wanted people to reflect on how the web had changed their lives.'

'The organisers are also encouraging people to post entries to their blogs on Friday which reflect on how the web has changed their lives.'

'This is the first OneWebDay, and the organisers plan for it to become an annual event.'


OneWebDay - http://www.onewebday.org/

OneWebDay - BBC article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5368190.stm