Content Labels http://contentlabel.org Enabling trust on the Web Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:11:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en Content Labels get thumbs up from the Equity Kicker http://contentlabel.org/content-labels-get-thumbs-up-from-the-equity-kicker/ http://contentlabel.org/content-labels-get-thumbs-up-from-the-equity-kicker/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:00:43 +0000 Paul Walsh http://contentlabel.org/content-labels-get-thumbs-up-from-the-equity-kicker/ Nic Brisbourne wearing sun glassesNic Brisbourne from Esprit Capital Partners (AKA Equity Kicker) wrote what can only be described as a fantastic post about Content Labels :

It is early days yet, but I like this because it is a solution to part of the search problem - it would be cool if a search on my mobile phone only returned sites that were certified as mobile ready - and in theory this could be extended in almost any direction. Cites could be certified as “business” or “blogs” for example, which would really help weed out the unwanted from search results. It might even be possible to include socially generated metadata in some way.

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]]> http://contentlabel.org/content-labels-get-thumbs-up-from-the-equity-kicker/feed/ Firefox extension that supports the Semantic Web http://contentlabel.org/firefox-extension-that-reads-semantic-labelled-sites/ http://contentlabel.org/firefox-extension-that-reads-semantic-labelled-sites/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:24:03 +0000 Paul Walsh http://contentlabel.org/firefox-extension-that-reads-semantic-labelled-sites/ A non-commercial Firefox extension that reads Content Labels is now available – the working name is Search Thresher.

In case you’re wondering, a thresher is a machine that sorts the wheat from the chaff ;)

How it works

When conducting a search using an engine such as Google, Search Thresher highlights Web sites that make claims about conformance to a standard, best practice or code of conduct. It does this by annotating each search result with a colour coded icon. Clicking on an icon provides more information about the claims being made. This means you can learn more about the trust that site owners wish to claim *before* entering their Web site.

In the example below we conducted a search for information about blogger and podcaster Tom Raftery. Tom’s own Web sites have been independently audited and certified for Web accessibility compliance and therefore annotated with a green tick.

Sites that don’t make any claims are annotated with a red X and sites which make claims about themselves receive an amber tick. More detailed information can be found on the Search Thresher site.

Screen shot of search results that highlight labelled Web sites with a green tick and sitse that haven't been labelled with a red x
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