Solid (Social Linked Data) is a new web decentralization project, which “aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy”.

Not everyone thinks the web needs saving. After all, it's a bigger and more essential part of our lives than almost anyone could have predicted when Tim Berners-Lee first wrote a browser for what ...

The man who created the World Wide Web talks about Solid, his ambitious plan to give us all a private place to store—and selectively share—our online data. A self-described “data nerd,” Berners-Lee ...

At D.C.’s Gov 2.0 conference, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and others work to explain the abstract concept of linked open data Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee resorted to using a bag of potato chips to explain ...

Tim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. Instead of leaving our online data vulnerable to harvesting by large tech platforms and governments, we should control it. Our own little piece of the web or ...

Two thirds of organizations (65%) now employ a Chief Data Officer (CDO). That’s according to a report that arrived in my inbox this week from Inrupt, the company founded by the Web’s prime mover, Sir ...