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Its small gems like this that keep us all on our toes and add a sense of humour to an industry that takes itself a tad bit seriously at times. Yes, it appears that some of the aficionados of Web 2.0 get too far into it, recently I came across a web 2.0 validator I had to laugh and laugh hard I did, the sad part was it was a serious attempt to validate what is supposed to be web democracy! If you did not have AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) on any of your web pages it failed validation. A friend’s website failed and his site met accessibility guidelines… now that is what I call democracy or an integral part of democracy having a site that is accessible to all. Not some site that because of merely having Ajax makes it a pass for web 2.0.
Anthony Parsons posted a link to this little gem that is a ‘poke-fun’ at the seriousness of web 2.0 called Wankr - Collaborative Masturbation Network. I’m looking forward to the satire and hopefully it will stay funny rather than get insulting or take itself too seriously.
On a note our GeoID page failed the Web 2.0 validation. The reason it gave we had no Ajax in the page… Err - last time I checked we had created it using Ajax!!

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