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| Jan 27, 2014 | Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo Is Reborn As Mobile News App Inside | Jason Calacanis is getting back into the news business with a new app called Inside, which highlights and summarizes the top news stories.
Although Calacanis has been involved in several startups and startup events (including the TechCrunch... |
| Apr 10, 2013 | Startup News: Transit Updates, Birchbox For Dogs, And Reading Tech On Tech | Photo: Fast Company
HopStop, Now With Complaints On Monday, transit app HopStop released its new social app HopStop Live!, which lets users update each other in real time on transit issues and changes. (Because the only thing more fun than ... |
| Jan 18, 2013 |
Calacanis Backs 15Five
| Jason Calacanis, the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo, is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five. 15Five, a San Francisco company developing an online platform t... |
| Dec 14, 2012 | Jason Calacanis Says He Will Shut Down Podcast Network ThisWeekIn.com, This Week In Startups Will Continue | Jason Calacanis has announced via blog post that he’s planning to wind down his podcast network ThisWeekIn.com and return the remaining funds to investors.
Two of the shows, This Week In Startups (which Calacanis hosts) and Kevin Pollak’s C... |
| Oct 2, 2012 |
Calacanis Invests In DNS Provider Dyn
| Angel investor Jason Calacanis has made another angel investment and scored another board seat this morning -- this time, all the way out in Manchester, New Hampshire. Calacanis, who lives in Santa Monica where he runs Mahalo, apparently ha... |
| Sep 30, 2012 | Jason Calacanis’ Next Act, And Another Pivot For Inside.com, As A ‘Knowledge Community’ | Serial entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis appears to be gearing up for the launch of his next venture, which may also signify one more pivot for his information site Mahalo. And that next step also looks like a new chapter for an int... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Quora Gamifies: Credits And “Ask To Answer” Suggestions Live For Everyone | After five months of beta testing, Quora has made its Quora Credits and “Ask to Answer” User Suggestions live for everyone today.
All users can now earn credits for a variety of positive and user engagement-magnifying Quora behaviors like a... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Downsizing Its Video Team, Mahalo Refocuses On Education Apps; Plans To Release ‘An App A Week’ | It’s been a rough year for Mahalo. The startup, which was founded by Jason Calacanis in 2007, began its life as a human powered search engine that offered curated links in what was intended to be a mix between the traditional search layout ... |
| Jul 9, 2011 | This Week In Startups | A few weeks ago Jason Calacanis stopped by our new offices and recorded an episode of This Week In Startups. It was a fun chat, almost an hour long. My audio is not as good as the audio on Jason so it's a bit hard to hear me unless you... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Experian Hitwise: Google’s Panda Takes Big Bite Out Of Content Farms | Experian Hitwise reports that downstream traffic to content farms has taken a big hit since Google’s Panda initiative went into effect.
Panda is a change in Google’s algorithm that punishes search rankings for websites that produce low-qual... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Mahalo Pivots to Focus on Video-Based Learning | Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has just announced Mahalo 4.0, the latest pivot for his company that has now moved from being a “human-powered search engine” to a Q&A site. The new Mahalo, unveiled at the Digital Life Conference tod... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Top Trends of 2010: Content Farms | The Web has always rewarded quantity more than quality, but over 2010 this truism became even more pronounced with the growth of Content Farms. These are companies which create thousands of pieces of content per day. Much of it is in the fo... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | Leading Spanish blog network Weblogs SL integrates its own Q&A platform | Q&A platforms are in and popping up all over the place. Weblogs SL, by far the leading Spanish blog network, has rolled out its own Q&A system, Respuestas, along the lines of Mahalo or perhaps Quora. Weblogs SL was launched in 2004 ... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Mahalo Faces Lawsuit; CEO to Take on TechCrunch | Human-powered search site Mahalo, created by notable entrepreneur, investor and blogger Jason Calacanis, may soon be involved in a class-action lawsuit, the result of a change to its Terms and Conditions that may have affected the pay of it... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Tripbod signs Visit Britain for tailor-made travel service | UK startup Tripbod has signed tourist body Visit Britain as a major distribution partner for a new unannounced product the startup will be launching with them.
Tripbod works by connecting people who want to go on trips with local experts. T... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Elon Musk, Jason Calacanis Speak at Founder Showcase Pitch Event | Last night the Founder Showcase held its quarterly event in Mountain View, featuring pitches by ten seed-stage startups, as well as talks by Maholo CEO Jason Calacanis and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The Founder Showcase is an open star... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | At The World Series Of Poker Two Founders Are Betting The Company — Literally | You’ve heard the term “betting the company,” but have you ever known anyone who has actually done that? I mean literally. As in, they’re playing poker with shares of the company on the line. Because that’s exactly what Yammer founder David ... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | You Know Where Else It's Hard To Delete Your Account? Mahalo | With regard to his recent spat with Facebook we don’t exactly see eye-to-eye with Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis. But this morning, we did when an incident showed just how hard it is to delete your Facebook profile. But after reading that post,... |
| May 26, 2010 | Jack Dorsey uses Square to get hefty donations from Calacanis and a Googler (Video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey demonstrated Square, his latest startup whose ser... |
| May 26, 2010 | Video: Jack Dorsey Shakes Down Arrington, Calacanis, And Google In Seconds | Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, Square co-founder Jack Dorsey took the stage to show a demo of Square running on the iPhone. To do the demo, Dorsey had a good idea: take money from Michael Arrington.
Dorsey took $100... |
| May 26, 2010 | Jack Dorsey uses Square to get hefty donations from Calacanis and a Googler (Video) | Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey demonstrated Square, his latest startup whose service allows users to accept credit-card payments on iPhone and Android devices.
The demo didn’t show us a... |
| May 26, 2010 | “You’re Fired!” (Or Not): Advice on When to Fire Your Startup’s Staff | If you are a subscriber to Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis’s listserv (you are, right?), you probably found your email inbox slammed last week when the list briefly allowed recipients to reply to the entire list. In today’s “Jason Nation” missiv... |
| May 11, 2010 | Jason Calacanis To Speak At TechCrunch Disrupt, And He Wants To Buy You A Ticket | We have parted ways with our long time TechCrunch50 business partner, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis. Sometimes, having more than one bull in the china shop can get a little messy.
So I’m pleased to announce that TechCrunch Disrupt in New York ... |
| May 8, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 8 May 2010 | A few weeks ago was the Events Guide’s one-year birthday – and while we don’t know how many thousands of conferences, unconferences, seminars, summits and meetings we wrote about over the last year, we can say this: It was a heck of a lot. ... |
| May 1, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 1 May 2010 | We’ve been plugging it for months, and now it’s finally here: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It’s not too late to sign up. We’d love to have you join us. It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development tren... |
| Apr 24, 2010 | How Not To Handle A Resignation Gracefully | There are two sides to every story, but this email exchange between Mahalo founder and CEO Jason Calacanis and one of his (now former) employees is a lesson in how not to handle a resignation.
Jason says this was a private exchange and that... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | VC Roundup: GoodCompany goes to NYC, ETF changes name | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Why Internet people lost touch with reality | Your relationships with Google, Mahalo, Icerocket may need to be different than they were in 2006
Sometimes it's hard to tell if people are trying to be funny, mean, interesting, provocative or are just plain stupid or completely out o... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | Jason Calacanis (absolutely does not) spoil Apple tablet event, drops no major details (update: not) | Jason Calacanis isn’t a a nobody. He’s a serial web entrepreneur, founder of Weblogs, Inc., co-founder of TechCrunch50 and CEO of search engine Mahalo (amongst others). And just a few minutes ago, via his Twitter account, he (possibly) drop... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | Blippy, the Twitter for credit cards, gets funding from Twitter co-founder | Blippy, a site where users can share and discuss their shopping habits, just raised $1.6 million in seed funding. What’s really impressive isn’t the size of the round, but rather the roster of investors, which includes famed venture firm Se... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | MySpace Hires Sean Percival To Further Socialize Their Content | MySpace is obviously a social network, but in terms of being talked about these days on the social web it has lost a lot of steam in recent years. To help with that, they’re bringing in Sean Percival to be the service’s new Director of Cont... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | Blippy, the Twitter for credit cards, gets funding from Twitter co-founder | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Blippy, a site where users can share and discuss ... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Dorthy.com wants to be your New Year’s resolution tracker | Over the past couple of weeks, personal-goal startup Dorthy.com quietly rolled out a major upgrade, just in time to capture your New Year’s resolutions.
The company behind Dorthy wants you to use the site to make — and keep — your personal ... |
| Dec 23, 2009 | Mobile Q-and-A service ChaCha adds $7M funding to $69M total | Indiana-based question-and-answer startup ChaCha announced today that it’s received $7 million in new funding. The company was founded in 2006 as a cross between Ask.com and the Mechanical Turk: Users would ask a question, and they’d be con... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Online Publishing Site HubPages Launches Real-Time Content Feeds | HubPages, a content community based around topics, is adding a new real-time feature this week: feeds. The site lets anyone create “Hubs” around any type of topic, and divided content into forums, questions and answers.
The new feed makes i... |
| Dec 13, 2009 | Facebook trying to trick its users? | [Updated: Added Facebook’s response.]
Last week, giant social network company Facebook rolled out an overhaul of its privacy settings and VentureBeat reporter Kim-Mai Cutler dubbed Facebook “the only place where a user can control how narro... |
| Dec 6, 2009 | Internet entrepreneur Calacanis launches Open Angel Forum, a free-access-to-investors program | Entrepreneurs seeking funding for tech startups have found that some angel investors, their only realistic source of seed capital, now charge them thousands of dollars to listen to their business plan pitches. It’s easy enough for angels to... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | How Murdoch Can Really Hurt Google And Shift The Balance Of Power In Search | I’ve mostly been a spectator in this whole Rupert Murdoch de-indexing his news sites from Google circus. First because I didn’t really believe he even knew what he was talking about (or how much traffic he’d lose), and more recently because... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | Meeting With The Bobs? Gmail Will Now Make Sure You Contact The Right One. | You know how I know that we’re reaching the limits of email innovation? Because Gmail is now devoting much of its time to embarrassment prevention in Gmail Labs. The latest is another small, but useful feature that they’re humorously callin... |
| Sep 28, 2009 | AirBnB should leverage Facebook's network | Vator Box gives AirBnB a thumbs up for novelty
This week, we take a look at AirBnB, a startup that wants to be the eBay of space by being the conduit for couch or bed rentals as well as entire apartments, hotel rooms or villas in Malaysia. ... |
| Sep 24, 2009 | Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers | Fluther, a slick service that lets you outsource your questions to other members on the web, has closed a $600k round of seed funding from some of Silicon Valley’s most notable investors. Included in the round were Ron Conway, Naval Ravikan... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | CheckedProfile is out to verify that fake dating profile of yours | How do you know if someone’s online profile is real? The question has plagued us for some time now, but it’s become increasingly problematic as vast swatches of the mainstream of society goes online and joins a social network, whether it be... |
| Aug 9, 2009 | If Jason Calacanis is against Apple, who can be for it? | It is the end. Jason “The Animal” Calacanis is thinking about maybe quitting using Apple products, reporting that the company has gone all corporate and mainstream and that Steve has lost his hippie, dippy LSD edge. Look at this language, p... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand | Last weekend, we watched Casino Royale on the beach in Slovenia, just up the Adriatic coast from Montenegro, where the story takes place. I love the scenes at the poker table, particularly the one where Bond goes all in and loses all his mo... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | When Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only ones who were skeptical about its potential to make waves. Did the Internet really need yet... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | MTV on the future of Web video | Average video durations are rising every year
MTV has a vision for video, eight-minute scenes on the Internet, three of them stitched together for a half hour TV show, and a feature length movie based on the TV series. The New York Times ha... |
| Jul 5, 2009 | Way Too Competitive: Tech Gurus Flock To World Series Of Poker | 6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year’s World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup e... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | How to save MySpace | Even though they've been clearly headed in the wrong direction
I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. ... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Ask Waves Its Arms To Tell Everyone It Also Does Q&A Search | One of the most active sub-genres of search right now in terms of startup and new product activity is question and answer sites. Some searches are subjective and best answered by another human being. The success of Yahoo Answers proved this... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Fluther to Maholo: Stop Copying Us | There's a lot of interest in getting questions answered on the Internet. And now there's a flare-up between two of the companies in this space. Fluther has accused Maholo of wholesale theft of the company's content, but the w... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Mahalo's Case Of Mistaken Identity | About 45 minutes ago I tried logging into Mahalo to stake a few claims for myself in the site’s revamped directory, which pays users for creating and maintaining their entries. This has proven far more difficult than it should be. In fact, ... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Mahalo Will Now Pay You To Create Topic Pages | Jason Calacanis wants to inject what he calls the “Skeeball economy” into Mahalo, his highly tuned site for creating and searching topic pages. (Disclosure: Calacanis is our partner in putting on the TechCrunch50 conference). Since launchin... |
| May 22, 2009 | Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed | It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has more than three times a... |
| May 8, 2009 | Making Decisions With Machines and People: 3 New Cyborg Q&A Services | The following post was originally titled The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services and ran a week and a half ago. It’s a slow morning around here and we thought readers who missed this the first time might appreci... |
| May 6, 2009 | Mahalo Answers Is Hijacking Twitter Questions From IMshopping | Last week we wrote about a startup called IMshopping, which lets you ask questions to human shopping guides about products to buy. One of the ways you can do this is directly through Twitter by asking a question to @imshopping. I tried this... |
| May 2, 2009 | Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site | Picture if you will, a collaborative site that runs on two servers, is managed by four people, and has attracted a third of its target demographic within six months of launch. A site that has had 800,000 posts submitted by its users in its ... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services | One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is, and they are starting companies based on the idea.
In the following post we take a look at three ... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine | The search engine market is obviously dominated by a small number of big players, but that doesn’t mean that small companies with interesting ideas can’t still get at least a small slice of this market. One of these services is Duck Duck Go... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Speculation Time: Who's The Next CEO Of MySpace? | The body isn’t cold yet (or even officially pronounced dead), but there is already broad speculation on who may be the next CEO of MySpace. Last night we were handed a list of names by a source close to MySpace parent company News Corp., cl... |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Universal Search Takes Off: Kosmix Posts 419% Growth In March | Kosmix, the universal search engine that dynamically generates guides to search queries using dozens of different content sources, is quickly gaining momentum. According to today’s latest comScore numbers, the site has jumped up to 3.2 mill... |
| Apr 4, 2009 | Actor Kevin Pollak Jumps Into Social Media, And Is Swimming Quite Well | Actor Kevin Pollak (A Few Good Men, Usual Suspects, etc.) met Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis at a poker game and learned all about Twitter – a few weeks later and he has over 160,000 followers (although he jokes “I just don’t know what that means... |
| Mar 15, 2009 | WeFollow: A Top Twitters List | Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and the man who two years ago removed the Top Diggers List after deciding it could be problematic for his site and its most popular users, yesterday launched WeFollow; a user powered Twitter directory, the idea o... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | Stake Your Claim? Technorati Opens Goldrush-Inspired Tag Directory | Technorati has just launched a new directory of ‘tag’ pages, offering brief overviews of a variety of tech-related topics. Tag pages range from broad subjects like ‘internet’ to individual companies, with each page offering links to relevan... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Guide to Super Bowl XLIII: Geeking Out on the Big Game | This Sunday, millions of people will tune into watch Super Bowl XLIII, where the Pittsburgh Steelers will meet the Arizona Cardinals in Tampa Bay, Florida (home of ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez) to decide who is the best team in professional f... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers | Here’s a question for you. How many Q&A sites does the Web really need? Already, there is Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha and dozens beyond. But Wikia (and Wikipedia) co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks th... |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Blogging Days May Be Waning at AOL’s Weblogs, Inc. | A source close to AOL has informed ReadWriteWeb that it will be shutting down and relaunching the Weblogs Inc. “Lifestyle Blogs” as online magazines. These blogs make up roughly 1/4 of what remains of the Weblogs Inc. network that AOL acqui... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Human-based search engine ChaCha seeks $30M, raises $11M | [Update: ChaCha has confirmed since I first posted that it has successfully raised the full $30 million. Thanks to Robin Wauters at TechCrunch.]
Human-powered search engine ChaCha just brought in $11 million of an expected $30 million third... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Death To The Embargo | PR firms are out of control. Today we are taking a radical step towards fighting the chaos. From this point on we will break every embargo we agree to.
Background:
Tech companies are desperate for press and hammering their PR firms for cove... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Mahalo Answers User Gets $100 Payday For Giving PR Tips To Strippers | Mahalo Answers, the just-launched Q&A service that is part Yahoo Answers, part Google Answers has just proven that people will actually pay for valuable information. At least, they will when strippers are involved.
This morning a repres... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Answerpedia: The Yahoo Product That Never Launched | Yahoo Answers is three years old this week, and it is the fifth most popular property within Yahoo after the homepage, search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Shopping. (See the table below). According to Quantcast, it attracts 24 million monthly uni... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service? Mahalo Answers. | Mahalo is now answering your questions. The human-curated search engine/ condensed wiki guide is adding a Q&A service called Mahalo Answers to its mix. It is a combination of Yahoo Answers and the long-defunct Google Answers, with some ... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Jason Calacanis’ “Project A” is surprisingly compelling Mahalo Answers | Today, Jason Calacanis launches Mahalo Answers — the latest project from Mahalo, his “human powered search engine”. Mahalo Answers is a possibly clever cross between Yahoo’s free-wheeling Q&A bonanza at Yahoo Answers, and Google’s highl... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | Kosmix’s new approach to search gets $20M | Kosmix, a search startup that automatically builds pages about any topic, has raised a $20 million in new funding led by Time Warner. That brings the Mountain View, Calif. startup’s total backing to $55 million — pretty impressive, especial... |
| Nov 27, 2008 | NaNoWriMo: ‘National Novel Writing Month’ Still Going Strong After 10 Years | 5 years ago, before this blog was a media business, I participated in NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. It’s an annual creative writing project, in which participants try to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I did ... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr | Forget CNN, which so far has few details of the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India that have left at least 80 dead (Update: they’re starting to catch up now). People are giving first hand reports of what they’re seeing directly on Twitter. Fl... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | Twitter and streaming video make debut in Mumbai coverage | The terrorist attacks in Mumbai played out not only on cable networks but for the first time since the election on computer screens. CNN offered a live feed at the top of its Web site that required downloading Flash 10 to operate. The beta ... |
| Nov 26, 2008 | Google's Marissa Mayer on search evolution | Google executive on search iterations, such as Twitter, Cuil, human-powered search
p>In the future, the way we search today - typing into a keyboard, retrieving a list of results - will seem pretty primitive. That's why new search e... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | CNN’s cool hologram technology also used tonight | In addition to its Magic Wall touchable maps, CNN is also using some cool hologram technology tonight to interview guests from afar. The guests appear to be in the room and move about in three dimensions, even though their images are being ... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | Semantic search plug-in comes to Google, Yahoo, MSN | Semanti Corp. today has released its free semantic search browser plug-in that now works for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search.
SemantiFind debuted in September at DEMOfall08 as a plug-in to add semantic searching to Google. The comp... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | RIP: The Controlled Message | [Editor’s Note: It’s been several weeks since Sequoia Capital‘s ominous meeting with its portfolio companies warning of tough times ahead. Not much has changed since, but the message has sunk in across Silicon Valley. While Sequoia was full... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs: Make Cuts, Stay Stingy, But Never Forget The Dream | This is part two of our coverage on today’s Downturn RoundTable hosted by VentureBeat. For Part One, which details the Venture Capitalist panel, click here.
The Entrepreneurs
In a panel moderated by Kara Swisher, Toni Schneider, CEO of Auto... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | VentureBeat downturn event: Tightening your belt isn’t enough | Everyone knows startups will have to make cutbacks to survive the coming downturn, but that’s not enough: It’s also important to look for new opportunities, even if that means completely rethinking your business model.
That was the big them... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Startup depression brings job cuts to Mahalo | Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis announced today that his “people-powered search engine” Mahalo has laid off slightly less than 10 percent of its staff.
By making the cuts, Mahalo can extend its “runway” to profitability, which is necessar... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Internet Winter Hits Mahalo; Cuts 10% Of Staff | In a post on his blog, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis has announced that his human powered search engine has laid off 10% of its staff. Along with the layoffs Calacanis writes that the company will be doing some “smart things” to help cut costs... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | Mahalo Sets Out To Liveblog The World | When Mahalo launched about 16 months ago, we called it a human-powered search engine and began thinking of it as a Google competitor. But it’s so-called “guide pages” for topics as diverse as the Boston Marathon and Patriotic Drunk Rednecks... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | What is The Future of Human Powered Search? | Mahalo popularized the term “human powered search” when they launched just over a year ago. Many of the pitches we get still use that term as part of their positioning. Many of them are bootstrapped, so the price of entry is clearly low. Bu... |
| Sep 7, 2008 | Is Search Really 90% Solved? | Jessica Guynn has an excellent interview with Google’s Marissa Mayer today about Google’s first ten years (today is arguably Google’s tenth birthday). Good stuff in there – Marissa talks about Google’s accomplishments in search and advertis... |
| Sep 1, 2008 | Hurricane Gustav on the Web: A Reference Guide for Our Readers | On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we watch as Hurricane Gustav once again batters the Gulf Shore. Today, many of us are glued to both the TV and the web to keep track of the ongoing coverage of the storm. Beyond just traditiona... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff | Incubator Y Combinator just wrapped the first of its two West Coast demo days for its latest batch of startups. As usual, their concepts were all over the place, from ticket sales to retail polls to job listings.
The startups gave demos on ... |
| Aug 14, 2008 | Y Combinator's Demo Day Summer 2008 | The twenty one startups from Y Combinator’s summer session are presenting their ideas and creations to investors in Boston this afternoon. Below are descriptions of the nine startups we haven’t covered and who don’t wish to remain in stealt... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Opinion: Can Google be bested? Not anytime soon | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Google may be the de facto leader in search today, but will its lead last forever? With services like Mahalo and Cuil gaining a... |
| Jul 23, 2008 | Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia | Google just opened upKnol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public after announcing a private beta of the service last December. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol puts a stronger emphasis on authorship and even encourages users to start different ‘kno... |
| Jul 23, 2008 | Pedias of world beware: Google Knol now open to the public | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 22, 2008 | Centrif uses social bookmarking to answer your questions | Centrif is an Ask.com-style search engine powered by users’ bookmarks — in other words, you ask the site a question and it returns the link that others think provides the best answer. The site is still in its very early days, but founder St... |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Specialized search company Kosmix isn’t so specialized anymore | Kosmix, the search company that has built sites around specific topics like health and automobiles, just rolled out a “horizontal” search engine — namely, one that brings the Kosmix approach to any topic you can think of.
That may seem like... |
| Jun 25, 2008 | Kosmix Goes Horizontal | Kosmix, until now a vertical search engine for information about health, automobiles and travel, transformed itself into a universal search engine for all subjects earlier today during a general redesign.
The move has been anticipated since... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Evri Launches Semantic Content Discovery Engine In Private Beta | Evri, the site that uses semantic connections between terms to help users discover related information, has launched in private beta. You can register for an invite here.
Evri founder Neil Roseman (former VP of Technology at Amazon) is quic... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Evri Beta Launches: Search Less – Understand More | Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri’s CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calli... |
| Jun 19, 2008 | OrganizedWisdom, the "Mahalo For Health", Raises $2.3 Million | OrganizedWisdom, a human-powered search engine that focuses exclusively on health, has raised $2.3 million in a Series A round led by ETF Venture Fund, Esther Dyson, and a number of other investors.
OrganizedWisdom has compiled a database o... |