• Call for web to stay open for all [BBC]
• NBC uses Olympics as research lab [Variety]
• Open Tech 2008 [Jeremy Keith]
• Commons motion to free postcodes [Puffbox]
• What to do? [Cameron Hunt]
• ‘Linking here’ lists with Google feed API [Puffbox]
• Opera Web Standards Curriculum [Opera]

• Portable Social Networks, the building blocks of a social web [Digital Web Magazine]
• YouTube/Viacom privacy followup (and what Google should do) [Dan Brickley]
• Release early, release often is not as easy as it seems [Chris Heilmann]
• The Clangers’ guide to Microformats [Drew McLellan]

• Why the BBC removed Microformat DateTime patterns from bbc.co.uk… [BBC Internet Blog]
• DateTime design pattern [Microformats wiki]
• Gestures are the new multi-touch? [Ben Hanbury]
• Pies are great [Neil McIntosh]

Went to the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Event last night.

Presentations by the developers of SearchMonkey was followed by a lively debate.

To quote from the SearchMonkey developer home page:

Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.

SearchMonkey seems to be one of few innovative developments in search over the past few years.

Looking forward to meeting again those from the London web development community I shared a beer with last night at this great event.

• Leaked report for NHS reveals full extent of Lorenzo slippage [Guardian]
• Awesome progress on video timestamping [mySociety]
• We’re all ops people now [Behind the Times]
• Plain old semantic HTML (POSH) [Microformats]
• One tonne ‘Baby’ marks its birth [BBC]

This is definitely excellent news!

Here’s some commentary on the announcement.