His gut was right, but his first foray into social media flopped.
When the public offering of the social network flopped, GSV fell hard, and it still has not recovered.
"When the public offering of the social network flopped, [GSV Capital Corporation] fell hard, and it still has not recovered," Randall Smith reported.
MIT PhD student Aditya Khosla, one of the paper's authors, advises comparing the scores of several images before posting to avoid embarrassing social media flops.
Apple's last attempt at blending digital music and social networking flopped: Ping was unveiled in September 2010 as a way for people to follow friends and musicians within the company's iTunes store, but shut down two years later after it failed to catch on.
Apple's previous attempt at social music, Ping, flopped hard.
Liberals love to cite these numbers as proof that social conservatism is a flop.
One was Mr. Romney's series of flip-flops on social issues like abortion and guns, as well as fiscal questions and especially immigration.
But Chinese social networking giant RenRen flopped in its public offering, pricing its IPO at $14 per share.
That may be wise, as it's historically been terrible at social products like the flopped Google+, Buzz and Wave, plus its mess of fragmented messaging apps.
Time after time Edwards questioned the New York senator's stands on issues from Iraq to the latest resolution on Iran to flip-flopping on Social Security caps to allowing illegal immigrants in New York to receive driver's licenses.
