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Funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis is turning to low-profile interviews to promote a new round of funding for Mahalo. But CIO Insight? Why is the well-connected friend to thousands turning to a niche publication aimed at IT executives? The always entertaining Calacanis should be able to get an interview with anyone he wants. And where's the usual bluster? "I think it's going to work, although it may take five years and $50 million to prove my point," says Calacanis. We're not sure what to make of this new, tentative Calacanis.
He has found an unwittingly useful new metaphor, however:
... we create pages based on a combination of the wisdom of crowds and the judgment of experts; we let the audience scrutinize pages and put in links, but we make the final decision. Voting is a great device, but there's a reason we have a representative government.In other words, Mahalo is a lot like Congress. And about as effective.
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That's fairly articulate and certainly insightful... are you sure I said it?!
Happy turkey day Valleywaggers!
oh yeah... if you're gonna beat me up remember to at least give me one link that's not internal! like this one:
[www.mahalo.com]
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@JasonCalacanis: Jason, can I share in your deep-fried turkey goodness?
Calacanis should become familiar with the commonly used meme 'Epic Fail'. Mahalo is a joke and he is seriously annoying. Why doesn't anyone see this!?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Rathole the size of the known universe. Mahalo is such a waste of time, effort and money that it's half criminal.
so that would be $70M in funding for a directory
I will happily accept $1 to prove my point with a directory :)
VW is great for free publicity albeit within an industry for CC
$20M funding, talks of another $20 and another $50M over 5 yrs
If you want a real "go" at CC, how many users? how many repeats? how much revenue PM?
Thats how you will really expose the Calcanis fraud
Less free PR more drilling down please
Perhaps JC has gone to the well one to many times and is now having to "wildcat" in other circles.
Congress doesn't call them earmarks for "bridges to nowhere" for nothing!
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