Not only that, but I'm not feeling the long scrolling thing. It was relatively unique and cute the first few times I've seen it, but I really would like to see the conversion data for sites that choose to place the sign-up and information 3 virtual miles below the fold.

There are a couple recent-ish case studies where super long landing pages outperformed short ones even for SAAS stuff:

http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/seomoz-case-study/

I think it's kinda like a fashion thing. Everybody likes blurred backgrounds today, tomorrow it'll be something else.

Exactly what I signed in to say. They all look very nice but few of them feel original in any way.