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I guess this is in direct response to Matt Cutts openly pointing Mahalo on HN. We should make the Aaron Wall the real SEO police. Just read the seobook blog and you will see all the sneaky things sites like Mahalo and ehow does.
Slander.
Please read HN community standards.
I was ready to say mahalo was the biggest spam website on the internet last week after the whole google search debate but now I think mahalo may have a killer product. right now it's like wikipedia 2.0 .... so far I like the 4.0 version ...maybe I'm wrong but I like this pivot
May I offer you a complimentary ticket to the LAUNCH Conference as a thank you? Feb. 23/24th in San Francisco. Ping me at jason@launch.is and i will arrange.
it's going to be a killer event (see www.launch.is for details... 40 companies launching killer products over two days!).
Looking forward to Mahalo 5.0 and their next pivot.
The problem with all these pivots is that Jason never addresses the real problem looking for a solution: The Problem: How do you couple an ad based funding model to user generated content without having that content model destroyed by ads displayed not in content of content and ads and ad frequency not fitting with user generated content. Thee is the problem Jason and you still have not solved go back to the drawing…
Make lessons 1-10 free (20-30mins each), charge for lessons 11 onwards. Most people that make it to lesson 11 would be willing to pay going forward, after seeing the quality of lessons 1-10.
Would love to have your intelligence at the @LAUNCH conference. please ping me jason@launch.is and i will arrange.
Looking forward to Mahalo 5.0 and their next pivot.
If Mahalo has been such a loved product with versions 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 why are they basically scrapping all of it and releasing a new product? It must be hilarious being an investor and seeing entrepreneurs pitch so confidently with ideas and then the next week see them something almost entirely different and totally confident in that. Oh right if you pivot it's okay.
Why do they cling to that brand? I've only heard about it here, and the opinions were unanimously negative. I'm sure I'm not in their target demographics, though. Who do they appeal to?
If Mahalo has been such a loved product with versions 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 why are they basically scrapping all of it and releasing a new product? It must be hilarious being an investor and seeing entrepreneurs pitch so confidently with ideas and then the next week see them something almost entirely different and totally confident in that. Oh right if you pivot it's okay.
You are a cynical one pclark! keep in mind that Flickr, Groupon, Nintendo and Nokia are all pivots. Your first idea is rarely your best, and pivoting is what great entrepreneurs do while B-level entrepreneurs run their companies into the ground. Now, factually you're a little off... so please let me get you up to speed: 1. We've been doing articles and Q&A for 3 and 2 years--so that's not being scrapped. 2. A year ag…
I guess this is in direct response to Matt Cutts openly pointing Mahalo on HN. We should make the Aaron Wall the real SEO police. Just read the seobook blog and you will see all the sneaky things sites like Mahalo and ehow does.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instead of low-quality articles meant to get search traffic and AdSense revenue, these are low-quality videos meant to get search traffic and AdSense revenues. YouTube is the second largest search engine and also has a lot of space in Google SERPs. It's also almost identical to Videojug, if you want to see how something like this plays out.
Our videos cost hundreds of dollars to make, are hosted by experts, shot in 1080p HD in a studio, have perfect audio and are on super clean white backgrounds (typically). They are 10-50x better than most of the videos on YT in terms of quality and production value. Most videos on YT don't have an expert and are shot on flipcams or iPhones with an open microphone, no lighting and background noise. Our goal is to make…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/25/...
"The goal this year is to start creating (from scratch) 2,500 original videos per week in 4 studios at Mahalo's L.A. headquarters. And Calacanis says the goal over the next couple of years is to reach 500,000 original videos."
That's 625 "professional" videos per studio per week. Sorry Jason, I don't buy it.
I was ready to say mahalo was the biggest spam website on the internet last week after the whole google search debate but now I think mahalo may have a killer product. right now it's like wikipedia 2.0 .... so far I like the 4.0 version ...maybe I'm wrong but I like this pivot
Thanks for a considered response. May I offer you a complimentary ticket to the LAUNCH Conference as a thank you? Feb. 23/24th in San Francisco. Ping me at jason@launch.is and i will arrange. it's going to be a killer event (see www.launch.is for details... 40 companies launching killer products over two days!).