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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
January 2012
- Offensive Advertising, Increased Sales?
- I Sold Out For Millions, Then Worked At McDonald's
- Steve Jobs on Failure
- The Famous Western Failure
- Thank Goodness for Drug Addicts
December 2011
- It's a Wonderful Failure
- Stadium Destroyed, Reborn
- Failure to Trust the Astronauts
- Failure and the Baggy Pants Tradition
- Failure at The Happiest Place on Earth
- Saving What Was Lost
- FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
November 2011
- A Thanksgiving Failure
- Harriet Tubman's Clever Lie
- The Failures of Lemieux
- Failed to Return a Text
- Admitting Failure
- A Leaders Job: Support Failure
October 2011
- [VIDEO] Mistakes with Tasty Dum Dums
- Failure and the Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Failure Goes Digital
- Using AIDS to Fight Cancer
- Victory Despite Obstacles
September 2011
Google Wave: Failed Victory
Remember Google Wave, the technology that was supposed to change everything? Earlier this month, Google announced it was shutting it down.
The official Google Blog post offers the basic story:
…Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product…
It might seem weird that the megaton company of the 21st century would be admitting defeat, but Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo offers an explanation:
“Remember, we celebrate our failures,” CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters earlier this month. “This is a company where it’s absolutely OK to try something that’s very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that and apply it to something different.”
It appears that Google Wave has in fact, gone up and then back down again. It hit a crest and then found a troff. The service is at an end.
But if one of the most successful and innovative technology companies in the world can fail with such style, shouldn’t the rest of us? After all: Failure is the secret to success.
