The man who invented the web about 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee, announced yesterday the World Wide Web Foundation, a non-profit with the mission of advancing one free and open web, expanding its capabilities and robustness, and extending its benefits to all people on the planet.
With an initial $5 million funding over the next 5 years provided by the Knight Foundation (a journalism and community empowerment non-profit), the W3F is headed by Steve Bratt and is currently in the planning phase with early 2009 as the targeted launch time frame.

Mozilla has extended its search deal with Google for another three years. In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum - in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company’s total revenue. The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run through 2011.