It has been a while since updating this Web site, not because we no longer care, but because we’ve been busying building other parts of the ecosystem to help enable trust on the Web in a more scalable fashion. We can do this more quickly too now that we’ve almost finished the build of an application that automatically generates Content Labels.

So, our friends at Glaxstar will release monthly builds soon after we provide them with a roadmap. This is likely to start in January but if in the meantime, you have any suggestions, please do let us know.

Search Thresher site will undergo some necessary upgrade and alteration. In ext 48-72 hours you may experience sluggishness, temporary unavailability, random glitches etc. However in order to provide quality information & resources, these upgrades are crucial.

Those who are subscribed to Feed or Email subscription will still able to receive update news in the same address.

We are extremely sorry for the inconveniences, thank you for understanding and support.

I learned today that Search Thresher will be backed by the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) special interest group - more soon. So, we’re going to keep this site, rebrand it and then add more stuff.

Segala is moving its Web site to reside on Wordpress, taking its personal blog and this Search Thresher blog with it.

This was always a temporary site as we wanted to go ugly early with the extension. So, please drop by the Segala blog and subscribe to the feeds there. Until the new site goes live in the next week, we’ll be posting on the personal blog only.

The new site will use the same feeds so you won’t have to change again.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused

We’re back at the wheel and the future for Search Thresher is looking great!

You’ve probably noticed that this site is a holding place until we migrate the Segala corporate site to Wordpress. This is why we haven’t spent much time on the design.

We started work on the new site two days ago and hope to have it finished by the end of the week! Ok, it’s not based on Wordpress out of the box but with a little PHP tweaking it’s an almighty powerful solution for an interactive/engaging Web site. Wordpress rocks!

So, back to Search Thresher – we expect to release a new build every month. If you’ve already downloaded the extension you don’t’ need to worry about keeping up to date – it will automatically prompt you to update your browser whenever we release new builds. If you haven’t download the extension then why not install it now!

ContentLabel.org continues to attract good folk who are getting involved in the creation of new codes of conduct.

Build 0.1a of the Content Labels Web site went live just 3 days ago. The plan is to position the site as a central resource for the creation of new codes of conduct. We believe Content Labelling is an implementation of the Semantic Web that everyone will benefit from right away!

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Are you interested in creating a new code of conduct to help enable more trust on the Web?

Sign up now and become a named ‘contributor’ on contentlabel.org. This will be the central source where industry will contribute to enabling more trust on the Web using Content Labels.

Contributors already signed up

Sam Sethi has already volunteered to create and run the wiki
Tom Raftery has kindly volunteered to create the blog
Daniel Appelquist David Rooks Sorcha Moore are amongst the keen to get involved
You?

A site is being built specifically for new codes of conduct and best practices. We hope to have a first cut before Christmas.

Get in touch and participate.

If you’re heading to this massive gathering and fancy catching a demo of a real implementation of the Semantic Web in action, then please feel free to drop me a note paul [at] segala [dot] com. I’ve been invited to give a demo of Content Labelling in action through Search Thresher.

I’m also attending the warm up on Sunday so feel free to drop by and say hi.

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More about Content Labelling (W3C Web site)

Everyone is talking about the lack of trust on the Web.

Search Thresher is a cool browser extension that enables users to find Web sites which can be trusted. Users can now filter out Web sites that don’t meet their expected level of trust, even if the Web site owners have spent loads of cash on SEO!

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How do you know who to trust?

Can you trust what you find in search results?

Over half of all adults have searched for medical related information on the Web. If searching for information on a medical condition, wouldn’t you like to know which sites promise to follow a code of conduct before entering them?

Wouldn’t it be even better if you could filter out Web sites that haven’t been verified by an independent medical authority?

When conducting a search, wouldn’t it be great to know which sites claim conformance to accessibility standards before entering them from the search engine? Better still, if you like or need to increase the size of text on a Web page, wouldn’t you like to know which sites have this specific capability before you enter them?

Enabling trust on the Web
Search Thresher is an extension used to demonstrate to search engines and mainstream browsers, how they can now provide users with more trust on the Web using a method called Content Labelling. Content Labelling is an alternative method to the outdated W3C recommendation called PICS, which is still in use by Microsoft Internet Explorer for filtering content today.

The W3C Web Content Label incubator activity project recently completed its final report after conducting research into the most appropriate method of labelling content on the Web. Search Thresher reads these labels to display additional information about a Web site *before* users visit the site.

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