Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of Web hunts for a still wider Web

September 16, 2008 · Filed Under News · Comment

For everybody Web may seem ubiquitous but its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee still sees its restrictions and now trying to do something to surpass those limitations. He is trying to do efforts to make the Web as possible as it can accessible widely and open.

HTTP, HTML and URLs –the most significant communications, presentation and addressing software for the Web were designed in 1989 by Sir Tim when he was working at the CERN physics laboratory outside Geneva. After that in 1994 he was the directing force behind the founding of the World Wide Web Consortium, a standards body.

With the establishment of the World Wide Web Foundation, Sir Tim is at present taking an additional step to try to extend the Web’s reach. New Web philanthropy will commence operations next year, and is looking for contributions and volunteers, starting with a $5 million start funding from the Knight Foundation. Aiming to bring the Web to the 80 percent of the world’s population that is not online it is working to develop technology, tools and expertise.

Sir Tim stated recently that attention for Future technology development can not be turn morally, without giving attention those people who don’t use the Web at all, or who could use it only if it were different in some way. He added that Future technology should be smarter and more powerful certainly

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Battle of Asian Giants enters www China blocking Indian Cos

August 27, 2008 · Filed Under News · Comment

Talking about emerging asian economies Tringme’s founder Yusuf Motiawala sent this today.
“It’s all about India-China relation and how China doesn’t return India’s hospitality. Take for instance our company, TringMe. TringMe, as you may know is a very successful startup operating globally. TringMe’s user-base comes from all over the globe and is extremely popular in China : we have a large number of paying customers in China including a Chinese social network with 3 million users using our services. Now all of a sudden, Chinese government decided to block TringMe, how fair is it? Infact, several loyal users from China wrote to us about it and we have been trying hard to help them out. They form a significant part of our user-base and have been key to our success so far.”

“We do not have any offensive content that could be deemed inappropriate for such a irrational decision. All that we try to do is enable voice and telephony from internet. Our company’s charter is to establish ourselves as the de-facto web-based voice and telephony platform. Given that over a fifth of the world population lives in China and that our valued customers in China are caught unaware, a decision like this continues to affects companies like us who are really trying to bridge the digital divide and unify the various forms of voice communication devices.”

“Chinese products have found in-ways into all markets of the world. While India continues to promote Chinese products everywhere, either it is a local market, electronics store or even a government organization like BSNL that introduces Chinese Telecom products into every home (as DSL modems), China apparently has no qualms in blocking an Indian company entering their market. We find this unfair, obtrusive and request help from media houses like you to voice our opinion to a global consumer.”

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