As you know, we ran a competition to find a new name for our Firefox extension. Aido and I went through the names and couldn’t find one we liked. So we thought… As a way of thanking everyone for their contribution, I decided to give away the iPod anyway. So, tonight I pasted everyone’s name [...]

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 [...]

I picked up on an interesting post about attention data from Damien Mulley’s blog. Whilst writing a comment on his post, I realised it was turning into an epic. It presented me with an opportunity to talk about Segala’s Semantic Web Firefox Trust extension too, so I’ve decided to write here and link to Damien’s [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft is claiming that the new version of Internet Explorer (IE 8.0) will be more supportive of standards. What they’re not saying is what standards they’ll support. I hope they choose to support the W3C, because as far as I’m concerned, they’re the most important standards available. One of the standards I’d like Microsoft to [...]

I picked up an interesting concept via Sam Sethi’s twitter today. It involves implementing white lists using OpenID and FOAF profiles to help resolve the issue with online identity. I don’t wish to commentate on OpenID or FOAF. I do however, want to voice my concern over the misuse of the word ‘identity’ and how [...]