Maybe they're getting smarter, or at least more jaded

The headlines on the articles say it all:

Lightroom 2 released to suspecting public
Cuil? Not So Much

The reviews, of course, are more caustic:

Today Adobe has released Lightroom 2.0 after an apparently smooth four-month public beta test. New features have been added and tweaked since the beta builds. The addition of more local adjustments is pretty evolutionary but very welcome, as it's the main thing keeping people running back to Photoshop for masked edits.

Besieged by problems such as unavailable site access, and paltry and irrelevant search returns, Cuil, the new search engine launched Monday, has drawn the wrath of users.

Rico says he'll wait on both for awhile, let the dust settle...