We’re changing the name of our Firefox extension and we’d like to solicit your help in return for the opportunity to feel good and win an iPod Touch at the same time.
The current working name is ‘Search Thresher’ which I’m sure you’ll agree, is too much of a mouthful.
In order for you to win, [...]

I’ve got a half-baked post in the oven about the Australian Government’s poor decision to censor the Web. Trust on the Web, protecting people from inappropriate content, better content discovery and content classification, are all terms that underpin Segala’s business. So, I’ll post a comprehensive opinion piece about censorship when I’ve had time to review [...]

We’ve decided to update our iconography in time for the launch of a new Partner Web site. Hope you like them. They were designed by Brent, one of our interns.

Visit the O2 Web site to see an example of our Trustmark. Clicking on the Trustmark invokes the Compliance Certificate. This is currently being redesigned [...]

I’ve been doing some work on http://contentlabel.org/ and the labeling vocabularies are coming along nicely. We now have vocabs for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Section 580, Pan European Game Information, Creative Common Licenses and Mobile OK Basic Tests.
Next on the agenda is a vocabulary for the mobile web best practices and blogs.
If [...]

To help seed interest and gain mass adoption for Content Labels more quickly, we’ve decided to give our technology to other trust providers for free. This may sound a little weird but it’s not. Segala’s revenue model is based on partners certifying Web sites for Web accessibility standards compliance and in the future, mobileOK compliance. [...]

Glaxstar is a company run by a very good friend of mine, Ian Hayward. These guys have built what I believe to be the only 100% full proof way of protecting minors from inappropriate content on the Web. Their newly released product is called Glubble. I’ve known about this for a very long time but [...]

Here’s another go at explaining what Content Labels are. I’ll start by explaining what problem is being solved and then talk about how to accelerate the process of getting mass adoption by building an ecosystem.
Steve Clayton, Microsoft UK Partnerships CTO sums up what we’re doing quite nicely on Facebook.
Had a great chat with Paul Walsh [...]