10 Web 2.0 Ideas that Failed. The Web is an extremely fickle place. A Web service can be hot today, and dead in the water tomorrow. While there's no true science for determining exactly what makes one stick while another languishes, there's a lot to be learned after one fails. Considering a startup? Here are 10 recent failures to add to your case studies. How Many Calendars Do We Need? Lesson Learned: If people aren't ready for RSS -- both Forrester and Pew report that only 5% to 6% of the U.S. population actually use it -- then they're not ready for an RSS calendar. A Case Against HyperLocal Content, Sort ofMyKinda launched last September as an Eastern European country-specific blog network, covering business, politics, culture, lifestyle, science and technology in local languages and some English translations.
Lesson Learned: It's expensive to acquire good niche content, especially if you don't already have the site visitors to earn advertising revenue from. Lesson Learned: Yahoo! Build It With Me. Crowdfunding for Your Business – ProFounder. Reach.ly - real-time marketing for hotels.