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10 Web 2.0 Ideas that Failed

With all of the hype surrounding Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, it’s easy to forget that lots of Web companies still fail. Here are 10 that failed in the past year – and why.

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Charlene Li on Flaming Laptops, Sleeping Technicians, and the Streisand Effect

Fast Interview: The author talks about why power is shifting from companies to people and why trying to stop it is like "trying to take pee out of a pool."

Fast Talk

Question: Does the deal struck between Google and the creator of Family Guy have longterm implications for how we will consume our media?

Answer: Are you kidding me? Alfred Hitchcock himself could come back from the dead and product a thirteen part miniseries embedded in the sidebar of all my... | posted by Jon Gos

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Question: Will Twitter ever rival Paypal, with money transferred via tweets?

Answer: I think that Paypal will never have its own mobile payment system that will dominate the market. Its much more likely that people will use their... | posted by Charles Baker

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Member Blogs

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Live from E3: Capcom announces movie deal

Capcom, the video game company behind franchises like Resident Evil and Street Fighter, have just announced a another movie deal last night....

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Live from E3: The games I’ve played…

Compared to E3 events over the years, this year’s event is scaled back immensely and is a lot more intimate. The media, developers and publishers...

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FC Technology Expert

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Vumber - Your Disposable Phone Number

Vumber does one thing and does it well. Provide a cheap and easy to use, disposable phone number and voicemail product. Vumber...

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The Network IS the Innovation Lab

Back in the days of Web 1.0, a.k.a. before the great crash of 2000, Scott McNealy, then CEO of SUN Microsystems was fond of saying, “The...

FC Now Staff Blogs

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Final Fantasy Finally Released on Xbox 360

E3, the biggest annual week-long gaming conference on Earth, kicked off on Monday, July 14 in...

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Teleconferencing: The New Air Travel

Not all business travel is essential. That’s why some companies are eschewing air travel for...

Member Comments

Article: Business email will eventually be replaced by more accessible forms of communication like Twitter and company wikis.

Comment: It makes sense that presentations be shared centrally, and knowledge be entered into a wiki, and group messages use a FriendFeed room or Twitter feed... | posted by member David Sim

Article: The presidential candidates see Silicon Valley as good for only one thing: its pocketbook, not its ideas.

Comment: And this differentiates Silicon Valley from every other industry sector how? Perhaps I'm just jaded, it's always about the dollars. Do we really... | posted by member Matt Case