A Contrarian View Of The Web 2.0 Conference

“[It was] kind of like Nixon in ’68. Or an REO Speedwagon reunion tour. Gives you a bit of an uneasy feeling….People who had been taking cover in bunkers for five years showed up. Hey, there’s Joe Kraus! He co-founded Internet search company Excite — since defunct — in the 1990s and is back with a new company called JotSpot. Hey, there’s onetime analyst Henry Blodgett! He was banned from Wall Street for hyping Web stocks and now writes a blog.

Everyone half-expected the Pets.com sock puppet to wander through, checking e-mail on its BlackBerry.”

Kevin Maney puts together his thoughts on the Web 2.0 conference that was here in San Francisco last week. Heh.

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