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Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, has a great post about advertising failing on Social Networking sites. He poses the question: what should social networking sites do to monetize their huge traffic? Have I got the definitive answer? Possibly not! In fact, I can tell you that we’re not working on social networking, precisely because I’m [...]
If you follow the blogosphere (yukkkk), the Twitterati (eurghhhh), the Facebookers, or the FriendFeeders, you might be forgiven for believing that these social networks are where all the action is happening right now. For example, high-profile bloggers, tweeters, and Facebookers such as Robert Scoble, and Chief Mahooligan, Jason Calacanis are in love with Twitter at [...]
Today, I wanted to blog a few thoughts about the “backchannel”. Now, while many of the readers of this blog will already know what the backchannel is, I suspect that many won’t; so first, a little explanation. I’ll quote from Wikipedia, because it has a good, concise explanation:
Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers [...]
The problem of blog comment spam continues to increase. I’ve now had around a quarter of a million spam comments posted to this blog since I started it; with new spam comments currently coming in at the rate of thousands per day. Almost all are automatically flagged by my spam filters; only tens are [...]
A couple of days ago, I wrote about the inability of traditional media companies to get their “product” to consumers, when they want it, the way they want it (see, Clueless Traditional Media - Andreessen Hits Nail On Head).
However, in the spirit of fairness, I thought I should point out that it’s not only the [...]
Google may unveil a key new component of its office suite next week at TechCrunch40, the demo-like conference being organised by Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis. Named Presently the new software is a presentation tool, analoguous to PowerPoint in Microsoft’s Office suite. Please note - Mike and Jason haven’t actually said that [...]
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about what Jason’s Calacanis’s start-up, codenamed Projext X might be about.  Well, it’s just launched, a bit earlier than planned.  What did Project X turn out to be? Well, it’s officially called Mahalo… here’s my take…
What is Mahalo?
Mahalo calls itself a “human-powered search engine”.  What does that [...]
Everyone wants to know what Project X actually is… as in the Project X that Jason Calacanis is working on. Not long to find out - he’s officially launching on 14 July. What do we know so far?
Well, we know that Sequoia Capital is investing (at least, I think we know that). That [...]
Jason Calacanis loves “Google Office” or “Google Apps” or whatever you want to call it - he things it’s great. I think the applications are fine, but, if you’re a regular reader, you’ll know I think that for most businesses, they’re not really relevant (at least not at the moment). However, Jason [...]
If you follow the tech corner of the blogging world, you’ve probably seen the spat that’s been going on between Scoble and people from that Gadget sites Engadget and Gizmodo. If not, you can start here, and then look at more recent posts in Scoble’s blog. And now Jason Calacanis has joined in with an [...]