Buzzword Compliant

Courtesy of Sadagopan I tried this tongue-in-check site - Web 2.0 Validator . See how Google and Yahoo perform in its tough grading..

 The score  for http://www.google.com is 1 out of 17

• Is in public beta?  No
• Uses python?  No
• Is Shadows-aware ?  No
• Mentions startup ?  No
• Appears to be web 3.0 ? Yes!
• Uses Cascading Style Sheets?  No
• Uses Google Maps API?  No
• Has favicon ?  No
• Appears to use AJAX ?  No
• Refers to Flickr ?  No
• Mentions Cool Words ?  No
• Mentions Nitro ?  No
• Mentions RDF and the Semantic Web?  No
• Refers to web2.0validator?  No
• Uses microformats ?  No
• Validates as XHTML 1.1 ?  No
• Mentions 30 Second Rule and Web 2.0 ?  No

The score  for http://www.yahoo.com is 0 out of 14

• Uses the prefix      "meta" or "micro"?  No
• Attempts to be XHTML Strict      ?  No
• Has a Blogline blogroll      ?  No
• Refers to mash-ups ?  No
• Appears to use AJAX ?  No
• Appears to be built using Ruby on Rails ?  No
• Has that goofy 'My Blog is  Worth' link ?  No
• Refers to VCs ?  No
• Refers to Flickr ?  No
• Mentions Ruby ?  No
• Has prototype.js?  No
• Actually mentions Web 2.0 ?  No
• Refers to del.icio.us ? No
• Mentions RDF and the Semantic Web?  No

The site also says advertising revenue is for the birds - it plans to charge multi-core, industry engine pricing. Not!

Actually it is a group of creative web site developers whose motto is to convey your message in 30 seconds or less.  Fidel Castro should hire them. He recently gave a 5 hour speech.

Comments

[dahowlett]

We're thinking of adding an AJAX enabled cigarette paper wetter (well - they do say AJAX is lightweight - a pre-requisite for any ciggy paper) to the boom mic of the latest (lightweight but ear-crippling) Plantronics wireless headset. Know anyone that'd fund that?

[dahowlett]

Should've said - we're hpoing to capture the emerging Chinese and South American ciggy-rolling geek communities now being educated at Philip Morris sponsored universities (ooh - did I say that?)