The validator came to life as the result of some goofing around, and was primarily intended to provide some amusement. But the implementation is itself an exploration into some of the themes that seem to pop up around the Web 2.0. Tim O’Reilly makes the plausible claim of inventing the term, though some have pointed out that the “2.0” Web idea existed earlier (witness the birth of the magazine Business 2.0). Dare Obasanjo has done a good job of summarizing the salient features of at least the O’Reilly take on Web 2.0. (Which reminds me: The Web 2.0 Validator has something of a Rest ful Web service exposed by a simple URL query:
http://web2.0validator.com/validate?url=http://webdesigningcompany.wordpress.com – returns an XML string with the validation results.
Web 2.0 Validators
