lots o' links!wow, I'd love to go to all of these, ok, maybe not ALL of them. Via mashablehttp://mashable.com/2010/08/16/100-upcoming-social-media-tech-events-3/

To me, true accessibility is building one site that works for everybody, disabled or not, and whatever user agent or operating system they prefer. And that is the web I want to build and use.

Yup. A good post on web standards and accessibility.

So, Google announced that:

Google uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. We aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results soon after they go live. We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.

Oh you people with crappy design, content and metadata, in theory, if you can generate a RSS, Google can find you.

http://www.archivists.org/standards/OWBP-V4.pdf From the introduction:"'Orphan works' is a term used to describe the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Proposed orphan works legislation, such as the Orphan Works Act of 2008 (H.R.

How many times are we going to hear, "google killer" or the "next google" I wonder? Anyhow, here is another one... the behind the scenes video is kind of cool. I've requested a guest pass/invite, so we'll see if I get to play around with it before it goes live. "Wolfram Alpha, a new "computational knowledge engine" based on the work of Stephen Wolfram.

A few links to share today:

• Nine Browsers of today and tomorrow compared
• CSS your icons
• Standard icons for use

It sounds like Microsoft is continuing to head down the path to standards compliancy...http://blogs.computerworld.com/web_standards_in_ie_8and a quick overview of some of the new features on the way (webslices looks amazingly like snapshots, which provides a little rollover live popup of a page as used on this website....