Come on Owen. Give credit where credit is due.... at least Mahalo is (slightly) better than Truemors.

Uhh.. I don't know how you're reading that graph but being in the top 20,000 on Alexa rank is a darn good for a one month old site.

I think the fact that we had a huge spike at launch make the graph not look that nice is the issue. We peaked at like a 2,000 rank thanks to the massive press... certainly unsustainable.

However, we're way ahead of where we thought we would be 30 days out with 50,000+ page views a day post launch. That's just great as far as my business experience goes.

Don't hate on Truemors.

Also, not that it means all that much... but here is a look at the other web20 search companies in the space. The fact that we are above them out of the gate does say something positive.

I know you work for Nick Denton know and your agreement to work at Valleywag states that you have to stick it to me all the time, but come up with something a little more logical than spinning an Alexa graph.

Really Owen... you're better than that. :-)

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50k pageviews per day for a one month old site is phenomenal. Of course, you probably have to subtract about 10% for internal use since it's using Mediawiki. Still impressive though. It would be more impressive, of course, if this information was made public on the site. Everyone loves stats, why not be open about it? www.mahalo.com/mahalo_web_stats anyone?

Sally: That doesn't include internal stats... we of course remove them.

Considering being open about stats, but my experience is that it is best to wait until year two so you don't give away your knowledge/learning.

You think this is bad- look at how shitty Truemors is doing. (scroll down to the Alexa charts, I know Valleywag doesn't like long posts) Remember how much press you devoted to Truemors?

The fact is, being a celebrity might give you an initial traffic boost, but long-term success will rest only on the merits of your startup.

I'm not a doctor but after looking at that chart, get in a defibrillator in here... stat!

Even if you remove internal stats by IP address, mediawiki can still have problems counting pageviews from internal use. ask your engineers.

I bet that every Mahalo contributor needs to use the Alexa toolbar to be come Mahalo member.

Also, of course the intial spike influences the 3 month average. D'uh.

Franky: Actually, Mahalo contributor's need to use Firefox to use some of our tools.

"Ave atque vale" is "Hail and be well" in Latin, not "hello and good-bye." Hello would be Salve for one person, or salvete for a group of people.

So I paid a visit to Jason Calacanis’s newest venture, Mahalo, in its nondescript warehouse office on the outskirts of downtown Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday. We demoed the manic entrepreneur’s latest company, the “human-powered” search engine, at D5 this year.

Good job Jason on pulling out all of the stops to promote your new company. The world can't live on Google alone.