::: rabatjoie, May 25, 2006 at 10:18:04 PM CEST

Gotta love The Register: Six startups from the Web 2.0 swamp

Last night, in a trendy San Francisco wine bar where you slide Java cards into dispensers to get a drink, Bite Communications hosted an event which allowed the press to swoon over its Web 2.0 clients. As we suspected, many of these start-ups proved unnervingly full of real-time, socially engineered, text messaging fluff. Conrad's Mistah Kurtz wasn't dead at all. He was wrapped in a bubble and pitching software, and we were deep into the heart of darkness.