The real problem is that it's REALLY hard to tell which is the better idea when things are just at an idea stage. I bet that when they were first proposed (bef

The real problem is that it's REALLY hard to tell which is the better idea when things are just at an idea stage. I bet that when they were first proposed (before building anything or seeing adoption numbers) WebTV seemed like a MUCH better idea than Twitter. (not that they're comparable services just that if I told you that I wanted to let people use the internet from their living room, that would sound more exciting and useful than creating a service where people write 140 character blog posts). Quality of idea just might not be a valuable metric.