The Web 2.0 show

This is quite possibly the best thing I’ve seen since breakfast: Cerado’s Web 2.0 or Star Wars Quiz. The premise is simple: decide whether a silly-sounding word is the name of an over-hyped web company or whether it’s really the name of a character from Star Wars.

I scored a reasonably good 41 thanks to my knowledge of Star Wars, I’m glad to say… I’d hate to have scored well by actually recognising half of the companies listed:

31-40: As your doctor, I recommend moving out of your parents’ basement.

Have you published a response to this? :

Previously on this day

17 years ago I wrote Trout Thursday

Today’s the day to eat some trout.

18 years ago I wrote Macromedia gets mean

Oh, dear. I know that it’s a dog-eat-dog world in the WYSIWYG HTML editor market, but Macromedia have just upped the ante.

18 years ago I wrote PixelNhance

There’s a very neat little piece of software for Mac OS X called PixelNhance.

18 years ago I wrote Miniputt

This is even better than the real thing: a game of mini-golf in Flash.