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Net Neutrality Fears from the ‘creator of the web’

By Jordan Hall 19th April 2011


The inventor of the web has said that governments must act to preserve the principle of net neutrality. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that legislation may be needed if self-regulation failed. He been asked by the UK government to negotiate an agreement on an open internet between service providers and content firms like the BBC and Skype. Sir Tim would prefer self-regulation by the internet industry, but progress has been slow. "If it fail...

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New BBC Web Design

By Jordan Hall 12th March 2010


I previously posted about Google's new web design, and now the BBC website is undergoing a beta web design. Take a look at the new BBC web design in the screenshot below. Click the image above to view an enlarged screenshot. Alternatively, you can take a look at the beta BBC directly at http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ The new BBC homepage design is even heavier in JavaScript and AJAX functionality allowing for some extremely dynamic customisation of the ...

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