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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Web 2.0 Validator says I'm not down with the movement

I found the Web 2.0 Validator, a cool utility that assesses a URL's political amount of conformity with a given roster of criteria to be officially Web 2.0 or not. Turns out my site doesn't make the cut, despite my earlier assertion about how we've been using Web 2.0 principles for years.

Here's the scorecard:

The score for http://www.kuam.com is 4 out of 40

  • Uses python? No
  • Is in public beta? No
  • Uses inline AJAX ? No
  • Is Shadows-aware ? No
  • Uses the prefix "meta" or "micro"? Yes!
  • Uses Google Maps API? No
  • Has favicon ? No
  • Attempts to be XHTML Strict ? No
  • Mentions Less is More ? No
  • Refers to mash-ups ? No
  • Mentions startup ? No
  • Uses Cascading Style Sheets? Yes!
  • Appears to be web 3.0 ? Yes!
  • Appears to use AJAX ? No
  • Refers to the Web 2.0 Validator's ruleset ? No
  • Mentions Dave Legg ? No
  • Appears to be built using Ruby on Rails ? No
  • Makes reference to Technorati ? No
  • Refers to Flickr ? No
  • Refers to VCs ? No
  • Mentions Nitro ? No
  • Mentions Cool Words ? No
  • Links Slashdot and Digg ? No
  • Creative Commons license ? No
  • Appears to use MonoRail ? No
  • Has prototype.js ? No
  • Use Catalyst ? No
  • Uses Semantic Markup? Yes!
  • Mentions RDF and the Semantic Web? No
  • Actually mentions Web 2.0 ? No
  • Refers to Rocketboom ? No
  • Refers to web2.0validator ? No
  • Uses microformats ? No
  • Refers to del.icio.us ? No
  • Validates as XHTML 1.1 ? No
  • Appears to over-punctuate ? No
  • References isometric.sixsided.org? No
  • Appears to have Adsense ? No
  • Uses the "blink" tag? No
  • Mentions 30 Second Rule and Web 2.0 ? No
This kind of shows how naive the whole Web 2.0 movement can be, with people really believing that it's a defined set of technologies rather than a methodology towards design, development and distribution of data.

This blog, hosted by Blogger, only scored 4/40.

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