Oh boy.... I guess I have to confirm the 1,000+ friends of mine in the queue! :-)

We're doubling the size of our technical staff here in Los Angeles to keep up with the growth of Mahalo (see Compete chart comparing **US-only** visitors for Mahalo and two other search startups Hakia and Wikia).

We're looking for a really killer Systems Engineer here in Los Angeles to work at our very cool factory in Santa Monica where they will make their own hours (provided they at least make it in for the free staff lunch every day at noon :-), get whatever equipment they want, soak in stock options in the next big thing, and work with a team of totally kick-ass no BS developers who are KILLING it every day.

It's amazing job, really. Our tech team is lead by Mark Jeffrey, a seasoned 12+ year Internet vet who has been through a number of startups. Our current Iron Man Systems Engineer Dan is looking for a second Iron Man to help scale our service from four million uniques a month to 40 million. Yes, we're going big here at Mahalo. :-)

The basic job description Mark put together can be found below. If you help us find this person you will receive a glorious JCAL pack which includes:

1. my total and complete love for all time
   
2. a ticket the TechCrunch 50 conference and an invite to go to the *VIP* speaker dinner as my date
3. a $1,000 Amazon or Apple gift card

Please send your deets to jason at mahalo.com and cc mark at mahalo.com with the subject line "I kick ass"

Rock on Jason
Systems Engineer, Los Angeles
Mahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital (the world's #1 venture firm), Newscorp, CBS, Elon Musk (Paypal founder), and others. This kind of opportunity is extremely rare in LA: these high-profile rewards are usually found only in Silicon Valley.

We're looking for a seasoned Systems Engineer. You should be expert in massively scalable architectures, how MySQL and Linux interact, how MySQL and memcache interact, sharding, replication (including multiple
master replication) and how to tune MySQL based on various schemas for maximum performance and availability. You are a HANDS ON implementor, a get-it-done kind of developer. The right person is a self starter
with the "general get it factor". You work well with a team of like-minded engineers, and have a genuine desire for excellence.

You should be expert with:
Applications: PHP 5.x, MySQL 5.x, memcache 1.2.x
Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, Unicast and Multicast socket programming
Scripting languages: Unix shell scripting
Other languages: Applicants with C, Java, and Objective-C experience preferred
Bonus: Hadoop / HBase, Lucene, Nutch, Spread

Well rounded candidates such as release engineers with a background in both large corporate environments and small startups have an edge.

This page is on the way to becoming the most loaded page on Mahalo.... ever.

Sheyla Hershey has had eight breast enlargement surgeries, but is being limited by the state law in Texas which says implants are limited to 1,000 CCs. Once again, the Bush Administration destroying our society and standing in the world!

Hey there, Tyler here with a fun little update on the search for the next host of Mahalo Daily.....

Today's episode was MD117 - The Bachelon, Episode 2 and tomorrow will reveal who will be the final group of lovely hosts who will each make their very own episode of Mahalo Daily for you all to judge on.

We started with the American Idol parody, now it's a fun twist on the Bachelon, any guess what fabulous reality game show we'll be spoofing on for the final round? Hint: We're saving the best for last.

In any case, we've decided to open up the voting on the web for the next round starting next week and let everyone out there have their pick in narrowing down the final round to help pick the winner.

If you haven't been following along already, here's each of the episodes leading up to today's....

Enjoy!

MD109 - Mahalo VLOG Idol, Episode 1

MD110 - Mahalo VLOG Idol, Episode 2

MD111 - Mahalo VLOG Idol, Episode 3

MD112 - Mahalo VLOG Idol, Episode 4

MD113 - Mahalo VLOG Idol Teaser 4

MD114 - Mahalo VLOG Idol, Episode 5

MD115 - Mahalo VLOG Idol, Episode 6

MD116 - The Bachelon, Episode 1

MD117 - The Bachelon, Episode 2

We're really excited to have three of our most popular judges back at TechCrunch50 this year: Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, and Marissa Mayer. Last year folks raved about their insightful, honest, and constructive feedback. This year we've grown from 40 companies to 50, and we've grown from two days to three.

The plan is to have six sessions with four judges on each, for a total of 24 judges over the three days. Mike, Heather and I are struggling over each decision. We're looking to rotate in some new judges, while bringing back some crowd favorites. It's really a hard process, but not as hard as selecting the 50.

If you have ideas for judges or if you know companies that are launching a new product in the fall please do let me know!

More on our judges:

	Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen is the co-founder of Ning, the create-your-own social network platform company that has raised over $100 million in funding. He also serves on the board of Open Media Network. Marc is best known as a co-founder and chief technical mind behind Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely- used web browser. Crunchbase profile.
	Roelof Botha Roelof Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital focused on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY) and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
	Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer is VP, Search Products & User Experience at Google. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google's search interface, internationalizing the site to 100+ languages and launching numerous features and products. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. Before Google, she worked at UBS research lab (Ubilab) and SRI International. Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring ("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Fortune and Fast Company. Special thanks to our amazing sponsors!!

Just found out my Godfather who I haven't seen for six or seven years died. Was told he was suffering from depression after losing his job at the race track and went back to the bottle. He drank himself to death over a couple of a days in his condo in Florida. A bottle of vodka a day was the prescription.

He was the picture of health before that, and for a man in his 60s he looked like he was in his 40s on a good day. He always had a kind word, and after 9/11 he saved up some money to make a trip to "the pit." He was so moved by the events of that day he felt like he needed to see it out of respect he told me.

We were never close, but we had a bond. I still remember him carrying me on his shoulders when I was a kid--doesn't get stronger than that. He left for Florida as many folks from Brooklyn do when they get a taste of the real sun. The grind, gray, and the cold of New York City can get to you once you've tasted the green and blue of Florida--or California for that matter. We were similar in that way I guess.

My mom told me he that Jimmy gave up after losing his job and the condo payments mounted. He tried to sell the Florida condo, but the real estate market down there went bad just as quick as it went good. You hear about the victims of the real estate bust in the Wall Street Journal all the time, but it's odd when it's someone you know. "Just move out and get a smaller place" is common refrain from the pundits on the cable news business channel. However, a man losing his home is left with a hole in their pride, and that hole can suck you in.

For Jimmy losing the place and the job started the spiral. He got back on the sauce, which he was off for decades, and he told his girlfriend "I'm too old to start over." He was in his 60s and had 20 great years left. The sadness and depression took the twenty.

RIP Jimmy, I'll see you at the track on the other side--we'll have a club soda.

All the lonely people.
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
Where do they all belong?

Hey it's Tyler here...

So there was quite an impressive submission of even more impressive designs for the JasonNation logo contests.

Below are all the JasonNation logos submitted by our lovely regular readers, and now it's up to you guys to vote and pick the lucky winner who will receive the hot new DASH GPS system.

Vote away in the comments!

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... and now I give you the top 50 pages on Mahalo yesterday. Notice a trend?! :-)

1. Grand Theft Auto 4 Walkthrough
2. Grand Theft Auto 4 Cheats
3. Judy Kay Zagorski
4. Grand Theft Auto 4 Michelle Dates
5. Grand Theft Auto 4 Dating
6. Grand Theft Auto 4 Missions
7. Grand Theft Auto 4 The Snow Storm
8. Grand Theft Auto 4 Friend Abilities
9. How to Play Guitar for Newbies
10. Grand Theft Auto 4 Three Leaf Clover
11. Grand Theft Auto 4 Blood Brothers
12. Grand Theft Auto 4 Car Theft Missions
13. Grand Theft Auto 4 Random Characters
14. Grand Theft Auto 4 Out of Commission
15. Grand Theft Auto 4 Lure
16. Guitar Hero 3 Wii Cheats
17. Dash Store
18. Grand Theft Auto 4 Ambulance Missions
19. Grand Theft Auto 4 Review
20. Grand Theft Auto 4 Annihilator Helicopter
21. Elisabeth Fritzl
22. Grand Theft Auto 4 Luck of the Irish
23. Candace Cabrera
24. Iron Man Game Review
25. Grand Theft Auto 4 Final Interview
26. Grand Theft Auto 4 Ivan the Not So Terrible
27. Guitar Hero 3 Song List
28. Grand Theft Auto 4 The Holland Play
29. Grand Theft Auto 4 Side Missions
30. Grand Theft Auto IV
31. Tiffany Shepherd
32. Candytracks.com
33. Viking Battle for Asgard Walkthrough
34. Grand Theft Auto 4 The Puerto Rican Connection
35. Guitar Hero III Cheats
36. Bush Tax Rebate 2008
37. Lost Odyssey Walkthrough
38. Grand Theft Auto 4 Undress to Kill
39. Pokemon Crater
40. Grand Theft Auto 4 Holland Nights
41. Grand Theft Auto 4 Escuela of the Streets
42. Grand Theft Auto 4 A Dish Served Cold
43. Grand Theft Auto 4 Ruff Rider
44. Grand Theft Auto 4 Deconstruction for Beginners
45. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of the Darkness Cheats
46. Grand Theft Auto 4 Dwayne Bonus
47. Grand Theft Auto 4 Clothes
48. Grand Theft Auto 4 Call and Collect
49. Grand Theft Auto 4 Secrets
50. Grand Theft Auto 4 Achievements

Discuss...

You must go to flickr and comment on these photos... that require your comments. Now.

Been driving the Tesla around town for two days now... it's amazing. I've got a long post coming up about the car and how amazing it is on both a performance and, well, spiritual level to drive it.

For now, however, I give you an amazing article on How to Get Better Gas Mileage in your gas guzzler. :-)

Tesla Meetup at the Mahalo HQ/office @ 4:30-7pm: 902 Colorado Avenue (right off lincoln).plenty of parking.going to 8pm iron man on promenade after meetup.



Bunch of Tesla photos outside of Mahalo were just put up!

Following my pal Dave Winer's publishing his Amazon wish list I've decided to set one up.

Just got reminded of a favorite quote of mine... (last 30 seconds of this clip)

I think we need a logo for the JasonNation, which I'm planning on doing once a week at a set time. I'm thinking Wednesday's at 5pm PST and 8PM EST this way folks on the west coast can watch at work and east coast folks can watch at home (or work if they are working late).

We need a logo and I have one of these really amazing DASH GPS units here. So, why don't we do a little contest: best logo gets the DASH GPS unit. We'll start today and decide by next week.

.... I'm thinking only five folks will even signup for this so you got a 20% chance of winning!

I'd like a logo that is iconic/powerful and that would look good on a tshirt, mug, or polo shirt. I really liked the Howard Stern Fist knock off someone did for JasonNation.

good luck!