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Top 10 Tech Failures of the Decade. YouTube...Really?

12 pointsby taylorabout 16 years ago
The New York Times recently wrote that "while YouTube, along with other new media properties like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, is seen as leading the challenge against traditional media companies, the company itself is struggling to profit from its digital popularity."

6 comments

mahmudabout 16 years ago
Gateway (the Acer of American PC vendors.)<p>HD DVD (acronym overload, no differentiation from Blu-Ray.)<p>Vonage (like Skype, but with an AT&#38;T syntax)<p>Youtube (low definition format, low comment intelligence, low interest cellphone videos.)<p>Sirius XM (financiers of Howard Stern lost to the Chinese $5 FM transmitter makers.)<p>Microsoft Zune (the portable version of Windows Media Player but only browner.)<p>Palm (HTML5 based "OS" might help you now, but I will never forgive you for that Pilot API.)<p>Iridium (never heard of them before Miami Vice, the movie, and never since. Lost to regional sat services)<p>Segway (a wheel-chair for the able-bodied; early adopters considerably dorkier than rest of population. Way too much of a "tourism office" gimmick toy than anything nowadays.)
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Dilpilabout 16 years ago
Yet another rehashing of the (inaccurate) Credit Suisse story.
vakselabout 16 years ago
the real story here, is that when you hit print, it doesn't show the entire article.
zimbabweabout 16 years ago
If the article is saying something stupid, why submit it here? Better to ignore it than post it and get no feedback beyond us calling Time stupid. That's not a valuable use of time.
padmanabhan01about 16 years ago
On a monetary basis, Yes.
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jgilliamabout 16 years ago
When are we going to stop defining "success" by whether something makes lots of money?