Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by underover » Sun, May 09, 2010, 2:24 PM UTC

Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page
mahalo.com

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by raganwald » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity."

In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which suggests to me that I am missing something that is right under my nose. What am I looking at here?

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by JeffJenkins » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:43 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

People like posting examples of garbage on Mahalo because the community generally seems to think they are a scummy company.

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by clemesha » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:44 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

After the readwriteweb.com "Facebook Login" debacle, this page looks extremely optimized to position itself the same way.

This is just my interpretation.

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by growt » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:44 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

you're looking at an attempt to profit from the stupidity of the masses.

1) I want to login to facebook

2) google search for "facebook login"

3) profit (for mahalo)

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:45 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

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Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by gloob » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:45 PM UTC

JeffJenkins wrote: post #3

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

People like posting examples of garbage on Mahalo because the community generally seems to think they are a scummy company.

It's pretty much the intellectual equivalent of Fox News appearing on the Reddit frontpage. You know why they're there, you know what's going to happen, it's not worth looking at.

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:48 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

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Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by keltex » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:55 PM UTC

clemesha wrote: post #4

raganwald wrote: post #2

Sometimes I have an opinion that something is not HN but I ask "Why is this HN?" just in case there is an unexpected and interesting angle I haven't seen. Even then, I usually have an idea why something was posted, I get the gist of why it is interesting to HN readers even if I haven't grasped why it should "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." In this case, I have absolutely no idea why this is interesting, which sug…

After the readwriteweb.com "Facebook Login" debacle, this page looks extremely optimized to position itself the same way. This is just my interpretation.

Especially the section: "Common Misspellings of Facebook" which is clearly to grab searches that contain typos.

Re: Mahalo's "Facebook Login" page

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Post by sjsivak » Sun, May 09, 2010, 3:57 PM UTC

I just googled "facebook login" and the results were:

1. www.facebook.com/login.php

2. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6147172660&topic=4...

3. apps.facebook.com/onthefarm (apparently many people go straight there and are hit with the login, this is the url for Farmville)

4. www.mahalo.com/facebook-login

So this link is the first non-facebook link. I bet they get some good page views from it.