Mahalo —
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 [...]
After watching a pretty interesting (and revealing) interview that Jason Calacanis gave about Mahalo, it got me thinking…
Jason describes Mahalo as human-powered search. That is, rather than coming at search from the “technology angle”, like Google does, Mahalo comes at it from more of an “editorial angle”. Well… 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 [...]