Brian Gongol

There's simply no good way to make a social-networking website work for a mass audience over the long term. Some people are resolutely anti-commercial; others will try to find ways to make money off everything they do. Some people want privacy and others want to share altogether too much. What is easy enough for a novice to understand becomes terminally dull to a heavy long-term user. There just isn't a sustainable long-term business model for mass-market social networking. Facebook won't be the dominant social-networking site in ten years -- probably not even in five.




The company was founded in 1985, so if it's closed this year, it will have lasted only 24 years. That's a shorter time building cars than either Packer or Studebaker.




A man stole a pallet of ribeye steaks after being fired from a meatpacking plant back in December, and got caught. The judge has sentenced him to up to 12 years in prison.
