A catch phrase will go here soon.

Peter Rojas on RCRDLBL

11/30/2007

Video of Peter talking about RCRDLBL…

Mahalo Daily distribution: 400k views in 15 shows

11/30/2007

Wow… Mahalo Daily is off to an AMAZING start. We’ve done 15 shows and well over 400k views already (Blip.Tv stats below which don’t include syndication to Facebook and YouTube). The shows in the archive keep growing, and the new shows are getting better and better. We’re about to hit 1,000 members of the Facebook group as well! Not to shabby.

We set the goal of getting to 100k views per day and we’re 15-20% of the way there already. That’s amazing.

We’ve started talking to some partners who can help us with that goal.

Who do you think the top players are who could deliver 100k viewers a day instantly?

  1. YouTube/Google
  2. AOL
  3. Yahoo
  4. MSN
  5. MySpace
  6. CBS
  7. ABC
  8. NBC

Seems like the startups can help you grow, but can any of these deliver serious traffic (defined as over 10,000 views a day over a sustained period)?!?

  1. Rev3
  2. PodShow
  3. PodTech
  4. Blip.TV
  5. Vimeo

Interested in hearing who you think we left off this list.

3G iPhone… frack!

11/29/2007

Do I get a $200-300 discount to upgrade my old iPhone when Apple releases the new 3G iPhone?!?!

Trying to make the best travel search results… feedback?

11/29/2007

Travel is one of our strongest categories on Mahalo. We really crush machine search and portal approaches with our pages, and folks tell me all the time that they come to Mahalo when they are planning a trip.

Now that we’ve done:

CITYNAME Hotels
CITYNAME Tours
CITYNAME Vacation

For the major cities, we’re experimenting with two more types of pages:

CHEAP HOTELS CITYNAME
and
the actual names of major hotels with pricing details.

What do you guys think of these pages:

  1. Bellagio Hotel and Caesars Palace
  2. Las Vegas Hotels
  3. Cheap Hotels New York, Cheap Las Vegas Hotels and Cheap Flights New York

You might think it takes a long time to put something like the table below together, but it’s about an hour of work. If 10,000 folks a year do this research already putting a human on the task for one hour makes sense. It really demonstrates how to get the best price, and it’s a starting point for folks to share their travel tips with other folks (i.e. we figure out how who has the best price and what discounts work best and that inspires other folks to share their tips with us, and we can add those tips to the page).

  1. Thoughts?
  2. How would you make these pages better?
  3. Would you use a page like this?
  4. Would you send your mom, brother, kid, etc. (non-tech savvy person) to these pages?
  5. How do you find the best travel deals?

MahaloToDo tag

11/29/2007

Remember, if we don’t have a tag you want please blog/twitter/delicious with @MahaloToDo in your
post/tweet and we will get on it for you. We’ve done a bunch of these for folks and it really is no big deal since we’re plowing through 1,000+ pages a week. Of course, don’t ask for something uber-obscure because that’s what machine search is best for (i.e. long tail results). Human powered search works best for one, two, and then three word searches (i.e. Paris, Paris Hotels, etc. are all something we will have or get to, but not “paris hotel deals in the 8th district that allow dogs”).

Oh yeah… follow the Twitter account we setup at http://www.twitter.com/mahalotodo/

YouTube Republican Debate tonight…

11/28/2007

We’re covering the republican youtube debate at Mahalo tonight at 8PM EST/5pm PST… check this page often!

http://www.mahalo.com/Republican_YouTube_Debate_Live_Coverage

Mahalo Top 7 Logo…

11/28/2007



We’re running a logo contest over at Sitepoint for a “Mahalo Top 7″ award… which one do you like best
?

Los Angeles Dog Training

11/27/2007

If you need a really great dog or puppy trainer in Los Angeles I highly recommend Caryl… she’s the best!

Official Calacanis pages…

11/26/2007

OK, these are my official pages across the interwebs…

Add me on Facebook
Add me on Twitter
Add me on MySpace
Add me on LinkedIn
Add me on Delicious
Add me on Pownce
Jason Calacanis on tumblr
Add me on mixx
Add me on Flickr

Fast facts..

11/26/2007

I’m loving the “fast facts” that the Mahalo Daily team is putting at the bottom of our videos…. very cool.

Would make a nice ad unit as well. :-)

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Hello, my name is Jason. Welcome to my blog on the interwebs. You can reach me on twitter @jason and by email at jason@calacanis.com. My Skype is jasoncalacanis, and my mobile phone is 310-456-4900.

I only pick up numbers I recognize, and in terms of emailing me, the best strategy is to write short, blunt and to the point requests. I can quickly respond to short messages, and many times I simply don't have the time to read five page pitches. In terms of taking meetings, I only do that after reviewing an actual product (not a business plan). So, the best time to ping me is when you have mockups or an alpha site. I don't read business plans, and I've never written one.

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