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Re: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference – Mahalo Greenhouse announced

nic — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:18:23 -0000

Alan - with Sequoia investing I guess they are going for scale, not an early exit. Nothing else would move the needle for those guys.

You make an interesting point at the end though - until I read your post I would have thought that the top 10,000 searches was more than 25% of searches. Jason will need more coverage than that if he is to convince people to make Mahalo their first port of call.

Re: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference – Mahalo Greenhouse announced

leafar — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:17:23 -0000

Lucky You !
I wanted to see him for a long time. I've started following Jason when he started the discussion about menitzing Wikipedia (to make it more secure).

Mahalo is People inside !
The huge difference with wikipedia is that you deal with stock. No one can alterate something already done.

And I am happy to see they add 500 items a day (that's U-lik current number ;-)).

Have you talked to him personnaly ??

Re: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference – Mahalo Greenhouse announced

alan p — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:17:14 -0000

fwiw I blogged on Mahalo awhile back here:

http://broadstuff.com/archi...

My end thoughts after the analysis were:

But, will this business scale - rather than sale ;-) - as its not hard to imagine doing the same 80/20 job with a far more automated service and still hoovering up the Ad cents. Also, will people really be happy to continually go to a site that doesn't search everything and anything?

Re: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference – Mahalo Greenhouse announced

nic — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:20:28 -0000

That Alan, as you imply, is the million dollar question. The answer so far is that they will use human editors, and use the Mahalo Greenhouse idea to build a huge network of people to help.

A key point is that they are not trying to index the whole web. I suspect they will ignore any site that looks for half a second like it might be spam, and they will lose some decent sites that way. Time will tell whether they can make the balance work in a way that is compelling for the likes of you and me.

It is a bit different to Wikipedia because you can only edit their index if you are on their payroll.

Re: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference – Mahalo Greenhouse announced

alan p — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:23:33 -0000

And how, pray tell, will Mahalo stop people gaming it and still be scalable? Ref travails of Wikipedia