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Paul Walsh of Segala talks with Talis on Search Thresher and the Semantic Web

Paul Walsh
In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I spoke to Paul Walsh, CEO of Segala. We discuss some of the history behind Segala and their involvement with web accessibility testing activities. We then move on to explore the topic of 'trust' and assertions of trustworthiness online, focussing specifically upon some recent work by Segala that has resulted in a visible example of the Semantic Web at work; their Search Thresher extension to the Firefox web browser.

Paul and I are members of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) new Semantic Web Education & Outreach (SWEO) activity, and we finish the call discussing some of the ways in which the very real potential of the Semantic Web could be made apparent to its detractors.

Have a listen, and let us know what you think.



Listen Now | Download MP3 [44 mins, 30 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following significant resources;

Paul's biography from the Segala web site follows;

“Paul Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of Segala, an authority and worldwide provider for web accessibility and mobile testing and certification services. Paul is responsible for setting the company's strategic goals and direction and has grown the company to become one of the world's most widely recognised and respected Trustmarks for web accessibility standards compliance.

Paul is an experienced public speaker and chair/moderator on topics such as accessibility, Mobile Web, Web 2.0 and enabling Trust on the internet using content labelling and is in demand at conferences and seminars around the world.

Prior to Segala, Paul was an executive at Eqos, a pioneer in the development of Web technologies for the B2B retail industry. In 1995 he became one of the first employees for AOL in Europe. He was a key member of the team developing AOL's UK presence and assisted with the launch of other AOL European territories.

He is Segala's W3C advisory committee representative, a founding member of the Mobile Web Initiative steering council and sponsor of the W3C's first incubator activity initiative to develop content labelling standards for the Web.

Paul was elected Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), a trade association for the interactive industry, in May 2006. Founded in 1985, BIMA is the longest standing trade association for the British interactive industry, supporting the interactive media sector as a whole, and the commercial development of its members.”

This conversation was conducted by telephone on Wednesday 13 December 2006. Audacity was used to edit the audio, with Levelator automatically balancing levels on the finished file.

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