1. - Mahalo video commercial competition
- New quality pages added by editor
- API/App/Visualization competition for small startups/design shops
- Referral program to bring in new editors
- Rating system for editors work
- Accumulated Pageviews for an editor (forces them to think about page creation, ultra relevance)

Posted at 1:23PM on Jan 18th 2008 by drew olanoff

2. Funny-- I have a blog entry in my draft list praising Mahalo for helping me out in a time of need.

So how about best article on how Mahalo helps? That way I have a really good chance to win a laptop. :-)

Posted at 1:25PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Phil Plait

3. Jason, You could just send me one, and I will do 250 hours of work for Mahalo over the next 3 months. (That's $2500 at $10 an hour.) That's almost 3 hours a day!

Posted at 1:31PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Chad W Smith

4. Best Social Marketing Project.

Posted at 1:34PM on Jan 18th 2008 by David Merwin

5. Development contest: Whoever comes up with the best concept/integration/web app that will allow Mahalo to do something no other search engine/social bookmarking service can do

Posted at 1:39PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Etherous

6. Giving away 2 Apple MacBook Air's will go viral all over the Social Web-o-sphere. It seems that having anybody that has a blog (and who doesn't?) to register for an account (If they don't have one already) write a review of Mahalo on thier blog (150 word minimum) with a link back to mahalo and the contest page. This will reach wide and far with your contacts and do all of the following things.

Increase Unique visitors
Increase registered users
Increase buzz about Mahalo
Increase incoming links

Oh and give me one for coming up with the first idea :-)
Good luck

Posted at 1:48PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Blantonious

7. I'd be more than happy to use the MacBook Air I will win as a way to promote Mahalo. Feel free to stick a Mahalo logo on the lid. Seriously however I will have to admit when I first heard about Mahalo I was very skeptical but since it has come out I have been very impressed with the site and also with Veronica's Podcast. I would really love to see Mahalo get into podcasting more. Mahalo seems to excel in quickly educating the viewer or site visitor. Please invest in more podcast targeted to specific sections of the site. Give us a guide for creating Mahalo style videos that we can add to the mix. Think YouTube but Mahalo style.

Posted at 3:55PM on Jan 18th 2008 by linkerjpatrick

8. I think the most important metric is average time spent on site. Second, and somewhat related, would be page views.

Posted at 4:21PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Bruce Keener

9. Well, considering Mahalo is a "Human Powered" search engine, i would say the biggest contributor to the Mahalo network should receive at least 1 of the laptops, and maybe something like the user who has referred the most people to this beautiful and genius site? Sorry for the lack of creativity.

Posted at 4:26PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Justin Doshay

10. Whoever creates the content with the most unique visits throughout the next 30 days or throughout February.

Either that or whoever creates as many MAC/APPLE how to guides over the same period.

Posted at 7:34PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Damon Pace

11. I think getting your number of users up is the first key metric for Mahalo, so referrals makes sense.

However, another interesting idea, that kind of proves the value of Mahalo as a different human-powered search engine compared to the current robot ones would be to have a "Hello" contest (Humans or Electronics, who Lists Lists Objectively).

Basically, Mahalo does their best to write a page de-optimized for search engines but rich in information about the contest. Then the entrants use their site blogs or whatever to create pages that are nothing about the contest but robot friendly toward a search term like "Mahalo Humans surpass Electronics in Listing Listings Objectively".

List 5 to 10 of these electronic robot search engines as the ones you'll utilize, name a date and a time you'll search the phrase, you could add in other things like creativity and whoever lists a useless page higher for the silly search term, wins the mac.

The bonus is that you'll probably see that search term skyrocket in Google, Yahoo and MSN as people test it out, and then people tune in at the set date and time, to find out which page will probably win. Also, Hello plays into Mahalo, which every major writing house will probably latch onto to kind of cornerstone their stories about a crazy contest, disproving 'googling'.

Posted at 9:27PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Cheyenne Jack

12. Lets go web 1.0 - the first person to get Mahalo.com tattooed on their head or teets!

Posted at 1:00AM on Jan 19th 2008 by chrispian

13. I would suggest holding some sort of call for ideas to come up with a contest for how to give away said laptops. That way you get the benefit of some extra PR 'hits' from the same number of prizes. :)

Posted at 9:26PM on Jan 19th 2008 by Mike Johnson

14. ... to clarify, I'm admiring, not hating. You're really good at this community building thing.

Posted at 1:25AM on Jan 20th 2008 by Mike Johnson

15. Submit what 5 or 10 features on Mahalo have been beneficial when researching a subject !

Posted at 10:53AM on Jan 20th 2008 by mARSHAL SANDLER

16. Give away one between new registered users for next two months.

Adward the other one for best production (quality+quantity) in Mahalo Greenhouse in the next two months.

Posted at 3:35PM on Jan 20th 2008 by Sergio Monge | Internet Marketing Consultant

17. You should buy more of them and do this :

1) First MacBook Air ** Breaking to pieces contest **

On the main page for Mahalo have people suggest and vote for ways to destroy a MacBook air , the five top idea will be done by Veronica Belmont on Mahalo Daily and use Top Bloggers in a link bait scheme ( aka Ask Shoemoney , John Chow , Problogger , ETC ... for ther suggestion and idea ).

2) One Month of where is the MacBook Air today in the picture , you take picture of the MacBook Air in 30 weird place but kid friendly places around the Mahalo office , example nearest starbuck or doughnut shop , and have people say where they think it is , of course take obvious places and the first person with 30 right answer or closest to it is awarded one.

3) One month Submit laser etching Mahalo contest for the best laser etching of mahalo logo into a MacBook Air.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2007/12/cultofmac_1212

http://www.etchamac.com/?page=samples

4) Have a blogger contest that explain why they should win the MacBook Air and have them suggest idea that would make Mahalo better.

Just seem to me that you already got the people who use Mahalo covered but need to go outside the box on this one.

Also Just for fun go ask for the price about being first in the browser box on the many existing browser and see if you can displace Google ;-) , no browser should be shipping without Mahalo as an option in the Browser box or search engine option.

You could also send me 4 MacBook air , one for each great idea I just sent you ;-)

Just thought of another one you could also make a wordpress plug-ins ( or other Blogging platform ) for use on people blogs.

Get 5000 people on Mahalo social and get a Free MacBook Air ...

create a site like spreadfirefox.com for Mahalo ...

Posted at 4:51AM on Jan 21st 2008 by Moulinneuf

18. The interesting project it would be desirable to learn results.

Posted at 7:17AM on Jan 21st 2008 by Stio

19. Create a "Mahalo Editors Choice" logo that people can stick on their web sites/articles, when Mahaolo links to these articles.

Create a "Editors Choice list of the top 100 sites" and publish this regularly. Create PR around these sites and Mahalo.

Jens

Posted at 8:42AM on Jan 21st 2008 by Jens

20. Put up printable "business cards" on Mahalo.

Have users signup as a "guide" they download and print the "business cards" then everybody puts on hawaiian shirts and goes to the mall/grocery store/downtown and help people find "real" stuff.

The "Guides" hand out their business cards with an affiliate style link. It asks the recipient to register with mahalo in lieu of a tip.

The "guide" with the most signups gets the air.

This has pitfalls, but I still think many of the online social networks could benefit from some offline promotion.

Posted at 4:41PM on Jan 21st 2008 by Ryan Libson