SubscribeWith apologies to Rolling Rains readers in Malaysia, Turkey, Costa Rica, Argentina, and other non-English speaking countries like Australia, here is a "geek vocabulary test". If you understand this poem without clicking on the links you speak "Web 2.0"
Now, Web 2.0 is the name given to a wave of current generation interactive web tools that may or may not yet be universally designed. Fortunately, many Web 2.0 developers are very aware of UD and inclusive usability. Maybe there is something in this literary tour of the web that may be helpful to you as a traveler.
When Squidoo got a blog in his throat*
Deep in the Xanga jungle
Lived the terrible Squidoo
With Google eyes
And yedda breath
He yelped his fierce “Yahoo!”
All jungle animals feared him
They did trumba when he was near
Even the Diigo Dog
And zippy Zooomr
Were careful to stay clear
No one knew why they feared him
What the skype was all about
But Congoos and Kikos
All knew to run
His strength they did not doubt
One night everything changed
Under the Flickr of the Xanga moon
The fearsome Squidoo
Swallowed a blog
And didn’t know what to do
He tried to yelp “Yahoo!”
And when up came “lulu”
The mighty king of Xanga
Was te-riya-fied
And cried “boo-hoo”
All the creatures flocked to see
The stricken Squidoo
Who sat on his pod
Looking downright down-cast
Yelpless without a “Yahoo!”
He begged for help from the wise Odeo owl
And the clever Firefox too
But they howled and laughed
To see scary Squidoo
Nervous as a naked Renkoo
Then kind old Friendster
Took pity on poor Squidoo
With a pat on the back
Down went the blog
And up came a goowy Yahoo!
“del.icio.us” said Squidoo
To Friendster with a smile
And ate him up too
Leaving nothing at all
Not one tiny Zoto, not even a pile
Then the creatures grew angry
Every last one
After Squidoo ate Friendster
This time…
They did not run
Chasing Squidoo out of Xanga
And into a deep eBay
The terrible beast
Would never return
Even meebo was now free to play
Yes thanks to the blog
And Friendster’s brave sacrifice
Xangans live without fear
Sharing all space as myspace
Happy, wired, and nice
Moral: Yahoos sometimes rule the jungle, so best to know who your Friendsters are in case you need them…
*Note: no silly Web 2.0 names were harmed in the making of this story, but a gaggle of Silicon Valley lawyers became noticeably irritated in the process.
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