Unquiet Desperation

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Yesterday, Jason Calacanis1, posted about how to save money running a startup. Techcrunch took one part of Jason’s post and it and blew it way out of proportion, and Jason wrote a second post to continue the conversation. I weighed in on Jason’s blog about this, but I wanted to elaborate a [...]

If you were following my Twtter feed last week, you already know that Tantek Çelik came to Mahalo last week to educate us on the use of Microformats. He was an engaging speaker and sat with the development team for the afternoon, pointing out places we could use some of the existing specifications.

This morning, we [...]

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Mahalo, the human-powered search engine, has launched two new features that can aid in saving you some time while cruising the Web.

First up is version 3.0 of their FollowMe feature. Now when you want to recommend a page you come across, you can submit to Del.icio.us, Magnolia, Mahalo Social, and Twitter all from the same [...]

Excellent. Now here’s a skill I’d like to hone in the new year… There truly is an art to correctly drinking whiskey (or “whisky” as the Scots spell it). While some people like to mix whiskey with Coke or ginger ale, take shots, or drink it on the rocks, the only way to truly appreciate it [...]

Growing like mad, actually. Check out these numbers:

Uniques: July: 177,481 August: 314,897 September: 745,262 October: 1,407,730 November: 1,726,669 December: 2,353,138

…Mahalo Social is getting 100 new members a day and 300 submissions a day. The social networking will grow to 500-1,000 new accounts a day in Q2, and 5,000 links/day suggested… via Silicon Alley Insider

The social aspect of this has been fascinating. [...]

Yes, yes…I know. It’s the week of Mahalo posts. Sorry if it’s getting tedious for you, but we’ve got some cool stuff happening, and I wanted to get the word out.We’re looking to build a development community. We’re going to be adding API features over the next month or so, and we really want to [...]

We’ve started to release parts of our source to the community.  We’re opening the doors with a parser function for MediaWiki…Imagelink.  Imagelink will allow you to make a link out of an internal image - to either an external URL or an internal page name.  By default, MediaWiki will link images back to the Image [...]