The WOT website has been updated with a fresh new look that emphasizes the important role of the WOT community. It has taken several months of work from our development team. The site has been built on a new content management system that gives us the functionality and flexibility to develop it further. At the same time we have moved the service to shiny new servers.
In future the website will play a key role when we introduce new exciting capabilities for WOT users. Take a tour of the site and let us know what you think!
Coming early next week: WOT for Internet Explorer and an update for the Firefox add-on!
A new version of WOT for Firefox is now available! It provides major improvements in the software, enhancing the functionality and making the system easier to use. We are excited to publish the result of several months of intensive work by our development team. The new version incorporates many of the suggested improvements from our recent user survey.
New features in WOT 20071114 include (from our previous post):
More intuitive user interface
Reputation components have been renamed to crystallize their meaning: trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety of a web site
Warnings are based on those reputation components you choose to use
You can ignore child safety, privacy, or vendor reliability if you are not interested in them
The system shows how much supporting evidence there is behind a rating (reflects how many people have rated the site)
Mouse over on web search results shows ratings in a new pop-up with clear traffic light symbols
Settings allow you to select the level of protection: warnings can be triggered by red and yellow ratings, for example
Settings can be accessed easily from the rating window and they let you customize WOT to fit your individual needs
A quick one-page guide will instruct on understanding and giving ratings
You can be among the first to try the new WOT by downloading it now from our website before it's updated to Mozilla Add-ons. Don't forget to leave feedback to our development team!
A new version of WOT will be launched soon. The new version will provide major improvements in the software – many of those that our user community pointed out in the recent user survey! The new beta of WOT for Firefox with significant functional enhancements will be released next week.
More intuitive user interface
Easy-to-use controls for rating sites
Reputation components have been renamed to crystallize their meaning: trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety of a web site
Warnings are based on those reputation components you choose to use
You can ignore child safety, privacy, or vendor reliability if you are not interested in them
The system shows how much supporting evidence there is behind a rating (reflects how many people have rated the site)
Mouse over on web search results shows ratings in a new pop-up with clear traffic light symbols
Settings allow you to select the level of protection: warnings can be triggered by red and yellow ratings, for example
Settings can be accessed easily from the rating window and they let you customize WOT to fit your individual needs
A quick one-page guide will instruct on understanding and giving ratings
WOT takes a giant leap forward! In just a few weeks WOT for Microsoft Internet Explorer will see the light of day. This enables us to reach over 90% of all Internet users. The functionality of the system will be the same on both Firefox and on Internet Explorer.
Against Intuition, the company behind WOT, has experienced a dramatic increase in employees and resources after our first round of funding in August. As a part of our marketing initiative we will launch our new web site with a fresh look and up-to-date content in a couple of weeks.
The best way to grow the WOT community is by word of mouth – we need your help in spreading the word of WOT to new Firefox and Internet Explorer users. Stay tuned for the launch of the new WOT!
