[petercooper]

Let's not get too excited here. Generally, stuff that's hyped up before it launches tends to suck.

Was Twitter hyped up like this before it launched? Facebook? Google? Microsoft? Apple? TechCrunch? Hacker News? Wikipedia? Heck, pretty much ANYTHING that's successful now? (Even small stuff like Balsamiq that's currently very successful in a small way wasn't hyped before it launched).

Now think of stuff that was hyped massively before launch. Cuil. Powerset. Yeah.

Stuff that ultimately becomes super successful becomes successful over quite a long period of time and due to the excitement of users after launch - not the bleatings of gurus before launch.