The W3C's has proposed a Geolocation API -- an interface that can work out the location of the hosting device. Currently only Firefox is implementing it.

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At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks".

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One of the topics at this year's PDC in Los Angeles was identity management. Microsoft has taken steps to ensure easier user authentication by announcing new tools for managing identities and the support for OpenID.

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Opera has created a new search engine letting web developers discover how web pages are structured.

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Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them.

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At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney on Friday, Jina Bolton presented "Creating Sexy Style Sheets", which gave an insight into some of the new features in CSS 3.

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The latest Firefox alpha release -- 3.1 alpha 2 is more significant for developers than end-users.

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The main topic at this year's Microsoft Tech.Ed keynote was the combination of Live Mesh platform and Software plus Services -- Microsoft's version of SaaS.

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Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4.

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I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam.

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Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts.

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After deciding to discontinue its Browser Sync, Google has decided to make the code open source to let developers continue hacking.

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At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework.

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This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web.

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W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices.

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