For one evening, at least, it felt like the good old days again.For those around for the first bubble, this week’s Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco felt awfully familiar. A big name rock act, hipster god Lou Reed, was brought in Wednesday night to serenade blue-shirted, cell phone packing dweebs.

Big name tech companies like Intel competed with old media powerhouses such as The New York Times to show their Web 2.0 credentials.

In a week of second, and third, acts Web 2.0 impresario John Batelle, publisher of the late, lamented, Industry Standard was most impressive, presiding, once again, over a week of sheer effervescence.