Here are the 10 worst tech failures of 2009.
Twitter Failed to Innovate
The Great Firewall of China Drama Continued and Worsened (Golden Shield Project)
Just yesterday we learned that Google acquired AppJet, the company behind EtherPad, a real-time collaboration word processor.
... "- We are working with the Google Wave team to get all EtherPad users a chance to try out the Google Wave preview within the next couple of weeks. We do realize (as does the Google Wave team) that Wave doesn't yet have all the functionality you rely on, and isn't yet as mature as EtherPad."