1. great interview!

Posted at 2:13PM on Jun 4th 2007 by David Ward

2. Ab so lute ly brilliant. Fake emails and lying to people you don't want to hire. Leveraging a lack of ethics = LOL!

Posted at 4:12PM on Jun 4th 2007 by Paul Short

3. Loved the Valleywag shoutouts. A little tip on misinformation to more reputable sites, send over a photoshopped screengrab.

One question, i'm sure you've got plenty of questions coming at you lately but does Mahalo take any kind of ethical position.

Say for example I search for 'reservoir dogs', now on google I can see that a download site or flash streaming site of the whole film will be a high link (usually a link to one of the main DBs like alloftv). Will Mahalo add these to the SERP?

Posted at 6:01PM on Jun 4th 2007 by Adam

4. "......some cheese from the back of a factory....." haha......Classic Calacanis. You've already crushed Denton but it is still funny to watch you beat that dead horse...

I'm a lot more clear on what Mahalo does after seeing this but am wondering how this space is going to be defined. This lack of a concise definition of what the space is and therefore, what Mahalo does, has created some confusion on what exactly Mahalo is all about... I think a lot of the negative feedback is based on a misunderstanding of what Mahalo is and what it is not..... the most common preconception I've seen is that Mahalo is trying to replace google; essentially that Mahalo is trying to compete head to head with google.

You say that is it not a search engine or a search directory, but a search service. I think "search service" falls flat and as you set out to define a new space and it is important that you define the space in a way that tells consumers what Mahalo is and how it can help them. Perhaps people will catch on to what Mahalo is about simply by “mahaloing” things or perhaps there is a term that can help them understand the value Mahalo can bring them… essentially Mahalo is a search filter in the sense that it is filtering out the long part of the tail in search to increase search relevancy, but how do you communicate this to consumers? Is it a defined search, revised search, interpreted search, filtered search, clean search, pure search, screened search, refined search, clarified search, developed search, enriched search, cultured search, intelligent search, proficient search, or simply a mahalo search? What is refined search, cultured search, filtered search, and enriched search combined into one word in Hawaiian? It will be interested to see how you guys nail this down, it may be as simple as getting users to “mahalo” (verb tense) so they can see for themselves, but a clearer definition couldn’t hurt....

Posted at 6:12PM on Jun 4th 2007 by Trace Richardson

5. Well, that was a fun interview Jason! Got me thinking...

http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/06/05/technology-the-big-challenge-for-mahalo/

I wonder if you agree!

Posted at 5:17AM on Jun 5th 2007 by Simon Brocklehurst

6. so Jason, are you going to do a blog post on the top 10 ways to punk valleywag?

Actually correction on wikipedia. They actually do have links out, but they don't have it in the body of the entry, they have them at the bottom.

I get a bit of traffic from them for a blog post i did on internet addiction someone put a link to it on the topic. Because they recently put nofollow links on their outgoing links, getting a link on wikipedia won't help your page rank, but will get you a bit of traffic, so less incentives for SEO's to game it.

good interview, very ambitious goal to clean up a portion of the internet. Maybe you'll spawn a new SEO business model in user oriented content optimization.

Posted at 2:25AM on Jun 7th 2007 by Pete Quily