Splattered across the media channels in the UK lately has been a surge of Internet failure related news. After millions of pounds/dollars have been spent in the development of an exciting new venture, a couple of years down the line the company has realised that the gold mine they thought they were sitting on wasn't really a gold mine... it was a flop. Millions wasted. They had hundreds of employees... millions in the bank, plus enough venture capital to enable them to last a lifetime. But ev.