Losers of the Web
I brain-scribed this list 2 minutes ago, and thought it was worth converting into blog-scribe.
A list of companies/products/shows which had the web in their fingertips (as in, being the hot thing of a particular moment), and lost it (as in, didn’t sell out or get big, or had to shutdown in their particular form).
- Napster
- Friendster
- Technorati
- Rocketboom
- Cuil
- Muxtape
…and there are probably more, but you get the idea.
Point: it’s better to learn from these, not Google or Facebook. There are a lot more things to take out of why Muxtape had to give into the RIAA than how Mark Zuckerberg caused mischief at Harvard.
