Having worked on a few projects that went nowhere, I'm happy that LiveAuctions at least had some success, for a while. I'm used to it, but LiveAuctions stands out because it was such a high-profile project. Or at least, it might've been, but unfortunately there were "organizational problems" that made the service always the poor relation, always the oddball product that didn't fit in with the main line of business. I saw so much potential in it that I started lobbying for expanding it and incorporating realtime features into the main system, but it was too alien a concept. "Disruptive technologies" always have more success when they come from outside than when they're generated from within; all too often, in the latter case, they're strangled at birth.