Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo - Valleywag Comments

Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo

Tiltawhorl — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:37:31 PST

"The value of our business and associated future success just cannot be captured on things like financial statements."

Tiltawhorl

Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo

categorically — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:46:51 PST

Where are the pictures of the puppies? I don't like Mahalo stories without them.

categorically

Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo

Mike Snow — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:08:06 PST

@SwatLax: Well, apparently nobody got it in year one.

Mike Snow

Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo

SwatLax — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:50:57 PST

So the iPhone is a bad idea?

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Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo

seanpercival — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:27:12 PST

@shiwsup

We couldn't agree more, which is why you can add links to any page on mahalo (or create one if it doesn't exist).

The twitter page is a good example of this.

[www.mahalo.com]

Hey Nicolas, this post doesnt have nearly enough topless older/hairy tech men. sayin!

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ReversePundit — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:23:13 PST

Can somebody please explain to me why this thing is any different than dmoz.org? How about the dozen or so other attempts at this same kind of site dating back as far as Disney's GoGuides, Zeal, and Wherewithal at the turn of the century? It didn't work back then, and it won't work now...

I guess cloning something built in 1999 is what passes for "web 3.0" in some circles...

ReversePundit

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shiwsup — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:20:16 PST

I do think that human filtering is the next step to dealing with information overload, but it needs to be done via recommendations by people with authority on each topic, not a small team of Web guys. In that sense, I'm trying to figure out how Mahalo is demonstrably better than Wikipedia. How can it possibly overcome the raw analytical machinery of Google or the sheer number of people editing Wikipedia on any given topic?

Remember portals? "AOL Keyword: CES2008." Oh look, some content with a bunch of links. That's what Mahalo reminds me of.

I'll be happy if they do something that completely blows me away, but I haven't seen it yet.

shiwsup

Only five months to go until everyone loves Mahalo

franky — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:02:42 PST

Brilliant recap of what Mahalo is. A slowly updated engine for slow people.

franky