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Tim Berners Lee (often heralded as one of the founders of the internet) today announced the establishment of the World Wide Web foundation. In a speech to members of the Knight Foundation, TBL outlined the objectives of the new organisation

• to advance One Web that is free and open,
• to expand the Web’s capability and robustness,
• and to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet.

TBL is already a director of the W3 consortium who efforts have concentrated on unified technology standards (such as XML and HTML) to promote the freedom of the web. The new foundation will aim to address the social impact of the web along with finding ways that to distinguish between reliable and non reliable sources of information.

More information is available at www.webfoundation.org.

Tim Berners Lee is considered the founder of the internet. Whilst some businesses are still grapling with how web 2.0 can work for your business. TBL (among others) has a vision for Web 3.0 and beyond. Whilst this can seem a pipe dream to some, bear in mind my previous post about the accelerated pace of chance and processing power thought to be available to us in the future.

The implications of this change included a shift in the way we think about our software applications. Its argued that by including the necessary metadata we are preparing ourselves for the next level of connectivity.