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 Send to email | Jason Calacanis Turns Mahalo Into A News Operation, Invites You To Watch in General |  By Silicon
el 10-Oct-2008 |  Mahalo is unveiling its new site design at the Future of Web Apps conference in London today, and Jason Calacanis is proud of one new feature in particular: A liveblog/newsfeed maintained by his employees, who will provide updates of... anything interesting, as soon as they hear about it. And Jason has installed a webcam so you can watch his employees as they scour the Web and update the site in real time.
This sounds like fairly miserable work to us, but who knows? Maybe it will have the same kind of buzzy thrill that we hear newsrooms were supposed to generate in the olden times.
And since Mahalo's 'human-powered search engine' model works by employing people to update search result pages anyway (they've created about 100,000), the news feed sounds like a natural evolution.
So how's Mahalo itself doing? Jason says the site hit a record of 4.6 million uniques in August, but that revenue is still negligible. He says he wants to build the site's traffic to 10-15 million uniques before loading it up with ads. But what about the impending startup collapse he has predicted? Shouldn't he be trying to generate revenue right now? Not a problem, Jason says: The $20 million he's raised in two rounds should last him four years.
New Site:
mahalodesign.png: Paste this image in your site, Myspace, Facebook, Ebay copy this code...
Liveblog:
mahalodesign2.png: Paste this image in your site, Myspace, Facebook, Ebay copy this code...
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| Jason Calacanis' Mahalo Fires People | | Jason Calacanis' Wikipedia-for-profit Mahalo laid off 11 of its 20-to-25 member editorial staff and two developers yesterday, says a former employee. The source tells us some of the positions will be rehired in the Philipp [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Oct-2008 by Silicon in General
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| Calacanis: I've Get Plenty Of Money. You Should Get Some Too | | Shortly after New York tech scene's best and brightest got drunk and hit the karaoke bar, they gathered around Mahalo's Jason Calacanis for advice. It was succinct, according to Nate Westheimer:
'Are we f-ed?' I asked Jason, in reference to this tailspin economy's impact on Internet startups.
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| EndWar Private Beta Invites Going Out [Beta Watch] | | According to several Kotakuites who decidedly broke the NDA by sending in tips, the invites for the private beta test of Tom Clancy's EndWar are now going out to those lucky enough to secure a spot. Here is a sample of the acceptance letter, with names changed to protect the guilty. [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in beta watch Nda News tom clancy's endwar Ubisoft
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