CNET.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jason Calacanis, the founder of Weblogs, Inc, chats about the tech industry's biggest haters, where to find the best pr0n, and what types of crack not to smoke. It's podcast gold
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
"We're liveblogging the world," funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis tweeted about Mahalo's new human-powered news feed on the search site's front door. Jason, help me out here: A couple weeks ago you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mahalo is unveiling its new site design at the Future of Web Apps conference in London today, and Jason Calacanis is proud of one new feature in particular: A liveblog/newsfeed maintained by his employees, who will provide updates of... anything interesting, as soon as they hear about it. And Jason has installed a webcam so you can watch his employees as they scour the Web and update the site in real...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Jason Calacanis has relaunched “human search engine” Mahalo as a gigantic blog targeting news that drives traffic in any vertical. The new Mahalo adopts the magazine style layout currently popular in the blogosophere, aggregating news stories in a layout that is part Google News. There’s even a “live blog” right of screen, which is updated with [...]
Webware.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is set to announce an interesting update to the curated Web directory. The front page will get a ticker, or in modern terms, "live blog," of news items, updated in real time by a dedicated team. Calacanis told me that the Mahalo home page has been getting some traction as a repeat destination site for visitors, and he...
Content Matters (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Last week, Jason Calacanis got the attention of the blogosphere with his email "(the) Startup Depression". Friday's New York Times followed with an article entitled Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley. So,how might the credit crunch impact the...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Filed under: Features , Blogging , Web services , Microsoft , Yahoo! , AOL On Monday, AOL (Weblogs Inc.'s parent company) announced that they are shutting down the AOL Hometown and AOL Journals services. AOL Journals members will be able to migrate to a new service, but AOL Hometown users have been instructed to back-up their files and prepare to go somewhere else. There have also been reports (but...
Junto Boyz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
, Chairman of , did a great interview of Jason Calacanis as he discusses Mahalo, speaking at , and the Asia web industry. Thanks for pluggin our conference, Christine!Jason Calacanis, Founder and CEO, Mahalo - IntroJason Calacanis, Founder and CEO, Mahalo - Open Web Asia '08Jason Calacanis, Founder and CEO, Mahalo - Asia Market
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
What does the market and economic meltdown mean for startups? Jason Calacanis thinks it means Armageddon. Fred Wilson thinks it means Armageddon if you don't have strong VCs in your camp. I don't think it means much of anything. Hopefully you are building your business in a way that is independent of the stock market. (If you're not, you are screwed). Will there be less money available for startups?...
Tech Confidential Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
"If you are working on a Web technology company, be happy that you aren't working for a bank, a brokerage firm, an automobile company, or in many other industries," urges...
Mattishness (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Hillel Cooperman of Jackson Fish Market has a great post up about startup work efficiency that is semi-in response to Jason Calacanis 's note about startups during hard times - so go read Hillel's post .
startupspark.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Jason Calacanis recently wrote about Startup Depression in an email and on his blog. And I think many of his points are spot on. I agree that things in the startup world will be drying up for a while, so if you are in the midst of a startup, you need to be focused. Everything you [...]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
[Editor's note: Over the weekend, we published an email by Mahalo CEO/Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis called "(The) Startup Depression," and then removed it at Jason's request. He has since published it on his own blog . VC Fred Wilson responds.] I think Jason's email is a great "wakeup call" for everyone in the startup business. Life is going to get tougher for everyone in the U.S. and possibly...
A VC (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
I received a bunch of requests yesterday to address Jason Calacanis' "startup depression" email that was sent out over the weekend. Alley Insider had the full text of it online but they took it down yesterday, apparently at Jason's request....
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
And he does it on his blog, which he incidentally still won’t be use to do any blogging, despite it having numerous updates. Fun stuff, that. Now, I promised myself I was retired from blogging to focus on my email newsletter, but I’m getting pounded with so many requests for this essay that I’m giving up [...]
