Orkut: The Hoff of Social Networks
Actor David Hasselhoff is worshipped in Germany, but his talents are less appreciated here in the United States.
The same might be said of the domestically underappreciated Google Orkut. Introduced in 2004, the social networking site is a big hit in Brazil, but in the U.S.,
Orkut has lagged in popularity behind Facebook and MySpace.
Failure Will You Get You Everywhere
All employees at Google are supposed to spend 20 percent of their time working on personal projects of interest.
Google says that the policy encourages creativity. Perhaps Google's greatness can be measured by its failures as well as its successes.
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