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Tech people appear hyped about their industry again

Woo hoo! Tech is back!

Kind of like Nixon in ’68. Or an REO Speedwagon reunion tour. Gives you a bit of an uneasy feeling.

The industry is still tingling from the loud and sweaty Bubble 2.0 — whoops, excuse me, Web 2.0 — conference here late last week. The event is being heralded in the media as proof of a tech comeback five years after the dot-com collapse. It’s almost like a return from exile.

Web 2.0, a Silicon Valley gathering in its second year, certainly felt hot. It had a couple of thousand attendees packed in like hens on a poultry farm. It had parties with decibel levels I hadn’t experienced since a 1981 Ramones concert.

It had all-new buzzwords. Remember "B2B" and "push technology"? Now, it’s "user-generated content" and "AJAX." Until last week, I thought AJAX was a cleaning fluid, or a Dutch soccer team. But no — it’s an acronym for something you use to get money from venture capitalists

By Kevin Maney

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2005-10-11-tech-industry_x.htm

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