Amidst all the April Fool’s Day fun, which has involved a boatload of rickrolling, you may have missed an important (and legitimate) announcement from my company, Miskeeto.

Specifically, Jakob Nielsen—the man, the myth, the legend—recently joined forces with the Miskeeto team to conduct a research project that has culminated in the seminal report, “Web 2.0: 99% bad”.

As designers, researchers, and usability professionals, we have grown increasingly distraught over the blatant misuse of otherwise wonderful web technologies to emulate the richness of the desktop in interactions ranging from drag-and-drop to entire single-screen applications.

Find out why the rush to go Web 2.0 has led Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike to break from all practical wisdom and create some of the worst web interfaces in Internet history.

Have you fallen prey to the hype?

Find out if your company made the list. Download the report now (PDF, 1.3MB).

Posted by Robert on April 1st, 2008