Looks like folks are getting involved.. the Apple and Twitter SeRPs had a bunch of good links added!

http://www.mahalo.com/Special:Mahalouserlinks?page_id=22410

We’re getting our search results to ~60-70% complete and hoping the public helps us finish the process. Also, some folks found the message board feature too! (check my serp: www.mahalo.com/jason_calacanis and click on the message board link on the bottom right).

Thanks for the feedback.. I’ve got a ton of emails, phone calls, twitterIMs, and comments to get back to… this is gonna take some time!

Mahalo for all the feedback,

Jason

Kevin Rose dugg us!! http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Mahalo_We_re_here_to_help
Today my team launched our latest project Mahalo.com. It’s a human-powered search engine. We’ve already completed the top 4,000 search terms on the Internet and we hope to do 10,000 by the end of the year.

Our Mission: To help people…. a lot.

Please take a look at our results and compare the ones we have side by side with machine powered search by folks like Google, Ask, Yahoo, Technorati, AOL, and MSN. I think you’ll find that humans can really help make search results better.

Feedback is not only welcome, I’m begging you for it! That’s the whole point of our ALPAH: Tell us how to make search suck less! We’re listening and we want to help… in fact, our tag line is “We’re here to help!” The comments below are open so have at it, or post your thought to your own blog and I’ll link to your comments (keep them constructive of course).

Here’s the press release for today’s launch, which took place at the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference (thank Kara and Walt for including me in such an amazing event!). It also has details of our funding including our lead investors Sequoia Capital, Elon Musk, and Newscorp.

You’ll probably be able to find some more feedback on the Mahalo project at these links over the next two days:

Google Blog Search
Technorati Blog Search
TechMeme
Google News
and at http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo_press_coverage

If you’re with the media, a blogger, or podcaster and would like to schedule an interview please feel free to email media at mahalo dot com.

Drop everything and read this:
http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/05/29/engadget-analysis-part-i-posts-words-comments-categories/

whoever this person is they have a job at Project X…. email me.

I just landed at the D conference–the best conference in the business today IMO–and who do I bump into having my coffee? Walt Mossberg… we traded a bunch of stories and I got the low down on the how the conference came together this year. None of which I will blog here for obvious reasons… but hold on to your seats because there are a number of HUGE announcements coming out of D this year. Plus George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates… wow.

If you’re here and want to meet me/say hello/chat I’m in the lobby drinking coffee.
email jason at calacanis dot com
cell/SMS 310 456 4900

lets all tag our posts d2007 for technorati.

Wow… it seems based on my last post that ESPN is, in fact, blocking their content on certain ISPs who won’t PAY THEM!

This is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard of. for a number of reasons:

1. Video-bast advertising inventory on the web is getting premium rates–ESPN could sell this to the cows come home. Why on earth would you want LESS inventory!??!?!? Maybe your sales team sucks?! If I was a sales person at ESPN.COM I would hit the roof on this one…. wow.

2. ISPs are looking to hit content owners with restrictions and charges for this kind of thing to force them to pay PLAYS RIGHT INTO THEIR HANDS. You’re basically exploding the Net neutrality debate (more here).

3. You are pissing off customers like myself who a) are loyal to your site, b) get the videos at work and USED to get them at home for free. I’m so upset I’m thinking of switching to Fox or CBS for my sports news. Why punish me on when you can easily make money on this using the open Internet!??!?! Brutal.

How come this isn’t a major story?!?! I don’t get it… was it a major story and i just missed it?

Today was the first time I got this message.

Anyone?!!?

I used to watch ESPN 360 videos over my TimeWarner cable modem. Now I’m getting a message that I don’t have access to the videos because…. well…. I don’t know.

Content vs. cables?!?!?!? WTF!??!?!

..

I was scheduled to be at the NextWeb conference in Amsterdam this week, but due to some scheduling conflicts I can’t make it. We let them know a couple of weeks ago, but my photo is still on the website and folks are asking me for meetings at the event…. so, consider this a broadcast to those folks. Sorry to people who are going expecting me to be there. Looks like a fun event, will try and make it next year.

best j

Last couple of weeks I’ve had some pain in my shoulder. I think it started after I got my medicine balls–perhaps I overdid it for a couple of workouts.

Today I start doing some research on shoulder pain and came across this wikipedia page which was really comprehensive. I thought, dang… who the heck is writing this page. This feels too good to be in Wikipedia frankly.

So, I clicked on the discussion pages and the history and found out that the page had a very small number of edits for the first three years (2003-2005), and less than 100 edits overall. This article cold not have a been created with that small a number of edits.

Then I looked at the first edit and it seems the person cut and pasted this NIH article to make the Wikipedia article…
http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/shoulderprobs/shoulderqa.htm

Someone questioned if this was really public domain on the talk page, but doesn’t seem like they resolved the issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shoulder_problems

Interesting.

… I learned from watching “King of New York.”

looking for a forth for gold on Tuesday AM at D Conference…. ping my by email jason at calacanis dot com