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Mahalo now officially a blog

Started by Duncan Riley · 9 months ago

Jason Calacanis has relaunched “human search engine” Mahalo as a gigantic blog targeting news that drives traffic in any vertical.
The new Mahalo adopts the magazine style layout currently popular in the blogosophere, aggregating news stories in a layout that is part Goog ... Continue reading »

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  • Gay bulldogs

    9 months ago

    Jason has been waiting patiently for his 3 year non compete agreement from weblogs
    Now that as of october 5th 3 years is up Jasaon essentially relaunches weblogs under the mahalo namesake


    If AOL lawyers chose to sue they would have a compelling case as even though the product was not realeased under the non- compete however it could be reasonbly proven that Jason was working on a competing profuct during that timeframe
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  • Kyle Brady

    9 months ago

    I don't think so, since the non-compete got destroyed in a California court a few months ago, everyone's been looking at them as a "are they really worth it?/can I ignore it?" situation.

    --Kyle
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  • Kyle Brady

    9 months ago

    Not to self-promote, but I had an email "conversation" with Jason today after I emailed him a little jab in the ribs, and he didn't appreciate it very much and responded pretty terribly.

    http://www.kyle-brady.com/2008/10/10/the-greatn...

    I'm not so sure that his wealth of experience amounts to a whole lot, given Web 2.0 nonsense, and it definitely doesn't in the case of Mahalo, but time will tell.

    --Kyle
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  • Bryce Roney

    9 months ago

    I see Mahalo more like About.com but with more content.
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  • Jason

    9 months ago

    Actually, this is just a layer on top of the core service which are the guide pages. We're still going to keep building out the thousands of pages a month. We're just listening to the 4.6m folks who come to the site each month and giving them more of what they want.

    Not sure I would call all of Mahalo a blog, as we don't really use a blog format. You are correct that the front page is blog like (obviously).

    The freshness is a constant challenge, but we're figuring it out. We should have a nice solution for the lined up in 2009.

    Step by step my friend!

    Note: has nothing to do with a non-compete. Interesting speculation, but my non-compete with AOL ran out long ago and it was for a blog network with over 50 blogs... which Mahalo clearly is not. Thanks for the theory however! :-)

    all the best, j
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