WOT Adds Support For Color Vision Deficiency
This is cool in making the web more accessible to people around the world. While everyone's keeping a lot of noise about the fact that text should be readable and scalable larger if the viewer wishes to, not many people realise that about 8% of men and about 0,5% of all women suffer from color vision deficiency. WOT has added support for these people in their service.
Web of Trust is a service that can be used to find out the trustworhiness and safety of websites. It relies on peer ratings and comments to build up its database. The service itself has a destination site, but can be more commonly found as a browser plugin.
MySQL Founder Invests In WOT
Esa Suurio, one of the guys behind Web of Trust or WOT being developed by Against Intuition, tweeted about Michael "Monty" Widenius' investment into their company. Web of Trust produces a browser addon that keeps you acknowledged of unsafe websites, online scams, spyware, etc. The service works in a crowdsourced manner where by other web users rate websites and let other webusers know of unsafe web destinations. Esa Saario also told in his tweet that the addon has now been downloaded more than 3 million times.
Monty Widenius is one of the founders behind MySQL. He sold the company in January 2008 to SUN Microsystems for a billion dollars. It is one of the all time success stories of Nordic technology startups. Monty invested through his Open Ocean -venture company. The amount of the investment was not disclosed, but he will be taking a board of directors' seat with the investment. WOT does not disclose how the money will be spent.
