Web 2.0 wearies of hyperbole, prompts revision

Here's the Google cache version for the about page of a new Web 2.0 thingy (Newspond), before it hit TechCrunch.

And here's the same page now.

Please note the changes.

At the heart of Newspond lies a tireless electronic brain. This highly-advanced machine intelligence continually watches over and reads hundreds of different websites, including everything from major news portals, to the tiniest blog, or forum.

How very 50s science fiction movie! Anyway, that became:

At the heart of Newspond lies a fully automated news engine. This system continually watches over and reads hundreds of different websites, including everything from major news portals, to the tiniest blog, or forum.

And then there's:

Every detail is carefully noted, sized, and gauged, reading at a faster rate of speed than any human being could ever dream of.

Which became (who says 'rate of speed' this century, anyway?):

Every detail is carefully noted, sized, and gauged, reading much faster than any human editor.

This:

When you create a state-of-the-art news system, you need a revolutionary comments system to go with it

Became this:

Comments are more than linear discussions. They are fluid and dynamic. 

I assume that the wordings were changed because people made fun of the absurd originals.

Clearly, people have had their fill of total bloody insanity on the part of Web 2.0. No longer shall every RSS reader be revolutionary and life-changing. Good. It was all getting a bit silly.