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Obama versus McCain: Web Standards

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Despite his carefully cultivated “maverick” image, McCain is playing it traditional and conservative by using HTML 4.01, the W3C spec from 1999. Obama shows himself to be much more progressive, adopting the 21st century XHTML 1.0 transitional standard.

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Facebook, MySpace et al : Open up or die

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Interesting article from The Economist on how social networks may be falling into the same trap that AOL and Compuserve have done in the past.

Two of the biggest online phenomena of the past couple of years—social networks such as Facebook, and virtual worlds such as Second Life—look an awful lot like AOL did in 1994. They are closed worlds based on proprietary standards. You cannot easily move information in and out of them: try shifting your Facebook profile to MySpace, or moving a piece of clothing or furniture from Second Life to Entropia Universe.

Ringside Networks are addressing this problem with the “first open source platform” for social networks, Ringside Social Application Server.

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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