"If you were looking to learn something new, this week's Web 2.0 Summit was not the place to be. However, if you were planning to catch up, make contacts and swap business cards, then the Palace Hotel's grandiose hallways were where all the action was. It was rare to chat up anyone at Web 2.0 who had anything positive to say about the official content or news. The consensus seemed to be same old, same old; the reason to break out the checkbook and skip out on real work was to mingle," according to Liz Gannes at GigaOM.
"Much more so than last year, the event seemed like a get-together for a homogenous group of friends. The few outliers were treated as cultural exhibits."
