Tag: CALACANIS

The once fearless leader of Weblogs Inc has been working hard with his team to develop the Mahalo human based search engine. His team of professional surfers scowers the web searching for the best and most relevant information, without all of the spammy, or non important results. It takes time to build out the pages, and his team has so far managed to build out an average of 500 pages per week. ...

MyBlogLog has been racked with security issues of late. John Chow uncovered the scandal of MyBlogLog users who are unscrupulously adding well known bloggers to their blogs list of co-authors. Perhaps a partial explanation of how the SEOs and bottom feeders of the world are pulling off these tricks comes from ShoeMoney, who explains how you can surf MyBlogLog sites as nearly anyone you wish. ...

BusinessWeek is running a story featuring Kevin Rose on the cover, with the headline: "How This Kid made $60 Million In 18 Months." That sounds like a heckuva success story, but not everyone believes the math. Our own CEO Jason Calacanis debunked it himself, but since he owns us and Netscape - a digg competitor - I figured y'all might want to hear it from others in the community too, including ...

Last week Jason Calacanis did a little Newsvine testing. A very interesting read from someone who has played with a lot of web toys just like that one... I tried Newsvine, and found it to be a little lacking. Not in features necessarily (although not being able to link to your own post is wack), but in polish. The UI is a bit cumbersome. The buzzword for cumbersome, so you know, ...