Finally home in Brentwood.

It’s been a crazy week for me. I left NYC on Monday night, had a seven hour delay (3.5 on the runway!), got into London late, did back-to-back briefings, attending the GeekDinner, did pub interview with Shinny, gave the keynote at the NMK Forum and talked about the Internet’s environmental crisis, how bad SEOs are destroying our web, launched the Mahalo Greenhouse, did more press briefings including Channel 4, radio interview with BBC (listen), and Al Jezeria which Valleywag blasted me for (is it fair to equate Al Jezeria with Al Qaeda like Nick Denton does? Kind of racist right?).

Gave a little thought to the Al Jezeria interview and I couldn’t find any reason not to do it, and I thought it would be interesting to see what they were like. Plus, Tyler that segment on the Daily Show was a riot!

Did another pub interview on thursday night. Hung out at a basement club called Adam’s Street with Nick Denton’s old partners (fun guys).

We got a ton of insightful comments on the launch of greenhouse…. I just pulled the links from the Mahalo Press page here: http://www.mahalo.com/Mahalo_Press_Coverage

The most important thing is we’ve had well over 500 people apply to be part of the Greenhouse. We are crushed just getting through all the applications! We’re taking the folks who worked on DMOZ/ODP and Wikipedia first, plus looking for folks who are bloggers. We’ve accepted a half dozen folks already, and we added our first SeRP (search engine result page) from the Greenhouse into Mahalo.com’s main search engine.

That SeRP was Tapatio Hot Sauce by Vika. Congrats Vika… here’s a flowerr for ya:

If you want to watch the Greenhouse grow check out these important pages:

1. Recent changes: http://greenhouse.mahalo.com/Special:Recentchanges
2. Part-time Guide progress: http://greenhouse.mahalo.com/PTG_Progress

I’m soooo tired right now, but I’m really thankful that Mike and the NMK team gave me the chance to visit London for the first time, and for the amazing reception the VC, entrepreneur, and blogging communities gave me while there. London reminded me a lot of New York–much more so than Los Angeles, and I really looking forward to going back. So far this year I’ve been to France, Spain, and the UK. Looking forward to visiting Germany shortly.

Mahalo for the time, Jason

Mahalo Press Coverage June 13, 2007

• TechCrunch: Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid To Submit Search Results
• Corante: Strange Attractor: Mahalo Greenhouse to crowdsource search
• Scripting News: Mahalo has a community program
• Phil Yanov Blogs…: Mahalo Greenhouse Launches – Will you tend Calacanis’ garden?
• Phil Bradley’s weblog: Mahalo Greenhouse Launches
• Center for Citizen Media:: “Human-powered Search” Paying Humans
• tbites: Calacanis launches Mahalo Greenhouse at NMK Forum
• Corante: Strange Attractor: Calacanis condemns ‘internet pollution’
• SearchEngineLand: Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid For Writing Search Results
• Tech Digest: NMK Forum 2007 – liveblogging Jason Calacanis’s announcement about Greenhouse
• Download Squad: Get paid to Mahalo
• Tech Digest: Shiny Video Interview: Kat speaks to Jason Calacanis
• The Inquirer: Slimebuckets, pollution and web conservation Calacanis-style
• Guardian Unlimited: Live from the NMK Forum
• Guardian Unlimited: Organ Grinder: @ New Media Knowledge Forum on social media
• Tech Digest: Mahalo Greenhouse will pay YOU for writing search results
• Corante: Strange Attractor: NMKForum07: Picking out patterns in the chaos
• AHN: Mahalo Greenhouse To Pay Users $15 For New Search Results | June 13, 2007
• Marketing Pilgrim: Four Questions About Mahalo’s Part Time Contributor Scheme
• PodTech Network: Calacanis new role: Environmental crusador of the Internet
• Click Chick | Midweek.com: Mahalo For Human Web Guides
• 901am: Mahalo Greenhouse launches, pays search results submissions
• Just a random blog!: Get Paid to Submit Search Results
• Technically Speaking: Greenhouse effect sounds like a nice plan
• Leveraging Ideas: The ultimate summer internship is hiring!
• Licence to Roam: Mahalo now for you too
• Website Magazine: It’s Getting Hot In Here: Mahalo Greenhouse
• The Way The Internet Should Be!: Four Questions About Mahalo’s Part Time Contributor Scheme.
• 15 Meanings: Is he smart or sly?
• Content Matters: Mahalo: Search with a Human Twist
• These are the days: Mahalo: Get paid for search results
• The Equity Kicker: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference – Mahalo Greenhouse announced
• socalTECH.com: Mahalo Forks Over Cash For Search Results
• {digital} alchemy: Mahalo Pays you for Search Results ($15 each)
• Simonsays: NMK Forum, Mahalo and Jyri Engestrom
• Gary Reid: Apparently I’m a Slime Ball
• iCrossing: Great Finds Digital Marketing Blog: Mahalo
• ComputerWorld: Human-based search engine looks to hire would-be searchers
• Rev2.org: Mahalo Launches Greenhouse; Pays Contributors

Mahalo Press Coverage June 14, 2007

• E-consultancy: Mahalo to pay for search results
• Bollyball: A Human Powered Search Engine Provides You Best Search Results
• Chip Griffin: Pardon the Disruption: Calacanis Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is
• BrandToBeDetermined: Mahalo Greenhouse – user generated search pages
• The All New Ewan’s Musings: The Mahalo Greenhouse Payments, and a Back of the Envelope Calcualtion

Mahalo Press Coverage June 15, 2007

• Channel 4 – News: Can Mahalo stop you using Google?
• JonesPC: Get relevant, useful search results at Mahalo.com
• StartUp Beat: Mahalo to Pay Users For New Search Results
• SEO Dance: Mahalo Looking for Search Results
• Chiropractic Blogs: Making Mahalo My Home Page
• Qwerky: Mahalo
• Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin: LinkedIn: Key to Mahalo.com Success?
• tbites: Videocast: Interview with Jason Calacanis