No web 2.0 site left behind
By Tim Finin on Friday, January 27th, 2006 at 10:38 am.Harry Chen blogs about Web 2.0 Validator, an automated web tool that determines how 2.0ish your Web site is based on a set of Web 2.0 characteristics. While Harry reports that his site only scored 11, it now scores 31! No, I don’t think he’s just been studying for the test so he could retake it. It appears due to Harry’s post on Web 2.0 Validator — just talking about Web 2.0 Validator makes your site seem to be a Web 2.0 site to Web 2.0 Validator. Or maybe this is related to Russell’s paradox, somehow.
Anyway, this post should help raise our own Web 2.0 factor a bit, even though the site is not in public beta, uses PHP and not Python, and we don’t really mention mash-ups, startups, Less is More, Dave Legg, the Web 2.0 Validator’s ruleset, Flickr, VC, VCs, Nitro, Firefox, Ruby, links to slashdot, or uses the tag.
Related posts: • More on measuring influence in the Blogosphere; • Blog comment spamming being outsourced to India; • myUMBC goes Web2.0;
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January 27th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
A nifty little tool, but it seems no one scores high except blogs. Del.icio.us only scores 9. Digg scores 11, Flickr 3, and bloglines is only 4. It seems that all of these companies are web 2.0, but none rank well. By the way half of the sites that are in public beta are marked no. I realize this is just a fun tool, but as popular as it is I thought it would identify the sites a little better.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
“I realize this is just a fun tool, but as popular as it is I thought it would identify the sites a little better.”
Since the rules are defined by the Web-using public at-large, and Web 2.0 is itself the epiphenomena of public usage, I’d say it’s a remarkably accurate tool.
Of course, I’m biased.
Actually, the real point of the site is to poke fun at people who want someone else to decide how to label things, and to encourage people to get past the buzzwords and focus on finding real value.