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The mobile web browsing audience is growing at an exponential rate, and many of the biggest players on the web are taking notice. It’s time to start taking mobile web design seriously, and fast.

Recently, Google released its “language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more”: Protocol Buffers.

While seemingly good news, there are some serious concerns. Read about those here.

The next stage of the Internet has been lurking around the corner for a long time and referred to as the “semantic web”. The concepts behind the semantic web are purported to have been in Tim Berners-Lee’s original intention for the Internet over 15 years ago. I suspect that means they were academically interesting, but technically impractical at the time. While I am certainly not qualified to predict exactly when this vision of the semantic web will be fulfilled as a technical reality, I can tell you about it’s enormous potential.