The Decline And Fall Of Facebook

Roger McNamee is a smart guy and a very successful investor as a co-founder of Elevation Partners. He made a breakfast presentation last month at thePaley Center for Media in Los Angeles that is well worth watching. I could probably get half a dozen columns out of this one speech, but the part I want to concentrate on here is McNamee’s claim that when it comes to social media, Facebook (in which he was an early investor) has already won. I’m not here to say Roger is wrong, just that I am not exactly sure what Facebook is winning.

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The Decline And Fall Of Facebook

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Comment on Groupon’s Rise and eBay’s Decline by Sun

Except eBay's mobile app is a big piece-o-crap. It does not have View Full Site. The GetSatisfaction site has a lot of complaints from mobile users about the mobile version is missing features and there is no explicit View Full Site link (it is the eBay logo on the lower right). But once you go back to the full site, you are redirected to mobile, so you end up not being able to do what you wanted. Yes, mobile is a very promising arena for commerce, but again eBay fails in big ways there.

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Comment on Groupon’s Rise and eBay’s Decline by sun

There are gross sales (income) and business expenses which give you a net margin. What is a gross margin? Groupon is still new and while it may be a darling of many, it has also received a lot of negative word of mouth from business owners. Groupon also has a lot to learn in terms of site performance, stability, and design. When the Nordstrom Rack Groupon was published, the traffic made for a very poor buyer experience. Buyers were also allowed to buy $50 GC for $25 from various cities then converting these GCs online to Nordstrom (not Rack) gift cards. The inability to print Groupons righ away is annoying. You also don't have a clear way to integrate user accounts between Groupon login and Facebook login. Groupon is a one trick pony. It only has the first to market advantage and they will only be successful as the amount of white powder they can blow up the ass of business owners.

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Report: Bluefin Tuna Decline Fueled by $4 Billion Black Market

A $4 billion black market trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna has decimated populations of the endangered fish, according to a new report. A seven-month investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that fishermen and traders for years violated international quotas on the fish with little oversight by the governments of several countries or by international regulators, including the International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).

While investigators focused on 10 nations, they found that violations were most profound in France, where the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reportedly worked with the tuna industry to manipulate catch numbers. "We found that the system failed at every point," said Katie Willson, a reporter who worked on the project. "It failed in that vessels were overfishing and that officials were turning a blind eye to that overfishing for years." Populations of Atlantic tuna, which is prized for sushi, have dropped by 75 percent over the last four decades, with half of that loss happening between 1997 and 2007, according ICCAT data. International concerns about bluefin numbers became particularly acute in 2007, when France declared it caught nearly 10,000 tons - roughly double ICCAT's allowed quota. Reprinted with permission from Yale Environment 360

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