Throwing together a bunch of trendy technologies != great product.
Agreed. Fortunately, CouchDB is great on its own merit. Also, CouchDB was using Erlang, JSON, and Javascript in 2005, before they were trendy.
Love Erlang, very interested in CouchDB, but not too familiar with scoble. I think it is really cool he's covering them, but the camera work is hard to watch....