In November 2020, Google announced a new ranking factor called ‘Page Experience’ which would be activated in May 2021. Page Experience consists of multiple ‘Core Web Vitals’ and Google has since been recommending website owners on how they can improve this score. For more information about Web Vitals and the upcoming changes, head to Yoast.com …
WordProof is proud to announce a noteworthy milestone today as the one millionth timestamp was published. The tool, which allows websites to show transparency, take accountability and protect copyright to increase trust on the internet, launched in 2019. The 200K timestamp mark was crossed only eight months ago, after which several quality news outlets and …
Our take on the roller coaster called ‘2020’ and a glimpse of what to expect in 2021 (from a product perspective). Off to a good start… At the beginning of 2020, the European Commission announced that WordProof was one of the 23 finalists in the Blockchains for Social Good contest. Shortly after, our team went …
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Anybody can publish anything online. You just need a laptop, domain name, and content management system like WordPress to get started. But how do you know what information can be trusted these days? Who is taking accountability for that information? And how will Google verify trustworthiness as one of the biggest distributors of online content? …
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The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) host a flagship event in Asia focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, which takes place on 7 – 11 December 2020. Due to COVID-19, the entire conference is held online with various start-ups, investors, companies, innovators and other parts of the ecosystem …
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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – The Dutch startup WordProof wins the Dutch Blockchain Awards in the category ‘Social Impact’. With this contest, Blockchain Netherlands (BCNL) aims to award the best Dutch blockchain initiatives. The winners were announced on December 4th, at the start of the Dutch Blockchain Week. Other categories in the Dutch Blockchain Awards are …
The EU Policy Lab recently published a new report as part of the #DLT4Good – Co-creating a European Ecosystem of DLTs for Social and Public Good project. The report intends to shed a light on why this topic deserves attention from research to policy, what are its defining features and key principles, how is it …
During the BlockDown Conference 2020 last Thursday, WordProof announced that it will allow customers to timestamp content on the Ethereum blockchain. After recently winning Europe’s Blockchains for Social Good competition (€ 1,000,000) and onboarding Yoast SEO as an investor, the blockchain start-up now adds Ethereum support to its Timestamp Ecosystem. Holistic approach To roll out …
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WordProof founder Sebastiaan van der Lans was invited to talk about the practical applications of blockchain technology in the media landscape, together with Joost de Valk (founder and CPO at Yoast SEO) and Marko van Kampen (creative director at De Persgroep, a large European publisher). The video (in Dutch, an English summary will be published …
The NGI Policy Summit is the annual flagship policy conference of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. On the 28th and 29th of September, the conference focused on setting out a compelling vision for the future internet; to empower policymakers across all levels of governance; and to strengthen the ecosystem of the NGI initiative. Aimed at policymakers across all …
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