http://inquisitr.disqus.com/enSat, 11 Oct 2008 13:37:04 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/5009/mahalo-now-officially-a-blog/#comment-2999426Actually, 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. <br><br>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). <br><br>The freshness is a constant challenge, but we're figuring it out. We should have a nice solution for the lined up in 2009. <br><br>Step by step my friend! <br><br>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! :-)<br><br>all the best, jJasonSat, 11 Oct 2008 13:37:04 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/5009/mahalo-now-officially-a-blog/#comment-2995776I see Mahalo more like <a href="http://About.com" rel="nofollow">About.com</a> but with more content.bdudeSat, 11 Oct 2008 02:37:21 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/5009/mahalo-now-officially-a-blog/#comment-2995523Not 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.<br><br><a href="http://www.kyle-brady.com/2008/10/10/the-greatness-of-jason-calacanis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kyle-brady.com/2008/10/10/the-greatn...</a><br><br>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.<br><br>--KylebradykSat, 11 Oct 2008 01:48:20 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/5009/mahalo-now-officially-a-blog/#comment-2995508I 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.<br><br>--KylebradykSat, 11 Oct 2008 01:46:29 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/5009/mahalo-now-officially-a-blog/#comment-2995024Jason has been waiting patiently for his 3 year non compete agreement from weblogs<br>Now that as of october 5th 3 years is up Jasaon essentially relaunches weblogs under the mahalo namesake<br><br><br>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 timeframeGay bulldogsSat, 11 Oct 2008 00:30:17 -0000