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| | High-tech innovation in many guises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The first, called CodeCon, drew 100 or so mostly young programmers, many from the open-source software movement, to a dark and cavernous San Francisco dance club, the venue chosen largely because it was cheap. |
 | | Most of the folks presenting at Demo were small start-up companies in "heat-seeking" mode, eager to snag a write-up from one of the freeloading reporters or, better yet, an investment from one of the many venture capitalists, hedge-fund managers, angel investors and other moneymen working the halls. |
 | | Conversely, those at CodeCon would likely have sneered that the Demo products were often me-too entrants into already-crowded markets, innovative mainly in their use of the current buzzwords. |
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