Just got reminded of a favorite quote of mine… (last 30 seconds of this clip)

I think we need a logo for the JasonNation, which I’m planning on doing once a week at a set time. I’m thinking Wednesday’s at 5pm PST and 8PM EST this way folks on the west coast can watch at work and east coast folks can watch at home (or work if they are working late).

We need a logo and I have one of these really amazing DASH GPS units here. So, why don’t we do a little contest: best logo gets the DASH GPS unit. We’ll start today and decide by next week.

…. I’m thinking only five folks will even signup for this so you got a 20% chance of winning!

I’d like a logo that is iconic/powerful and that would look good on a tshirt, mug, or polo shirt. I really liked the Howard Stern Fist knock off someone did for JasonNation.

good luck!

Highly recommend watching this talk by former Silicon Alley Reporter columnist Clay Shirky on the “cognitive surplus” and how we’ll put it to use.

Large-scale distributed work-force projects are impractical in theory, but doable in reality.

The Mahalo Games team have finished GTA 4 and the GTA 4 walkthrough is about to be completed (we’re still writing it). So, don’t bother buying the book on how to beat the game…. get it for free at Mahalo! GTA 4 cheats are also complete.

Here are the various GTA 4 Missions

• Three’s A Crowd
• Easy Fare
• Jamaican Heat
• Bull in a China Shop
• Concrete Jungle
• Hung Out to Dry
• Clean Getaway
• Ivan the Not So Terrible
• Uncle Vlad
• Crime and Punishment
• Do You Have Protection
• Shadow
• Final Destination
• No Love Lost
• Logging On
• Rigged to Blow
• Search and Delete
• The Master and the Molotov
• Russian Revolution
• Roman’s Sorrow
• Escuela of the Streets
• Easy as Can Be
• Street Sweeper
• Luck of the Irish
• Out of the Closet
• Blow Your Cover
• The Puerto Rican Connection
• Call and Collect
• Deconstruction for Beginners
• No. 1
• Ruff Rider
• The Snow Storm
• Have a Heart
• Final Interview
• Holland Nights
• Lure
• Photo Shoot
• Hostile Negotiation
• Undress to Kill
• Wrong is Right
• Portrait of a Killer
• The Holland Play
• Dust Off
• Paper Trail
• Harboring a Grudge
• Waste Not Want Knots
• A Long Way to Fall
• Three Leaf Clover
• Smackdown
• Babysitting
• Actions Speak Louder Than Words
• Tunnel of Death
• I Need Your Clothes Your Boots and Your Motorcycle
• Blood Brothers
• Undertaker
• Taking in the Trash
• Meltdown
• Museum Piece
• No Way on the Subway
• Weekend at Florian’s
• Hating the Haters
• Late Checkout
• I’ll Take Her
• Union Drive
• Buoy’s Ahoy
• Pegorino’s Pride
• Payback
• Catch the Wave
• Flatline
• Trespass
• To Live and Die in Alderney
• Pest Control
• Entourage
• Dining Out
• Liquidize the Assets
• That Special Someone
• She’s a Keeper
• Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend
• One Last Thing
• A Dish Served Cold
• Out of Commission
• Michelle Dates
• Ambulance Missions
• Vigilante Missions

People have told me over the past year that I’m obsessed with Twitter and that my obsession should be on Mahalo. Of course, I see Twitter as akin to breathing and talking for business–essential. What’s the point of having over 20,000 followers on Twitter folks have asked me. Why have 5,000 friends on Facebook, or over 1,000 people on Pownce.

Why waste your time doing ustream videos? Why be a “community CEO” was the refrain from the peanut gallery. Well, here’s one of dozens of amazing reasons: social media focus groups.

Today one of our designers sent me a mockup of a new “guide” page on Mahalo. The concept was simple, what if we put the search result on the right and the guide note (a mini, scanable wikipedia style article) on the left. Currently it’s links on the left, content on the right for our “guides” (don’t go callin’ them search results now!).

So, I took total of 30 seconds to upload the photo to Flickr and twitter and Pownce the URL of the photo asking for feedback. The result? 2,755 views, 48 notes on the image (see above), and 202 comments.

In order to organize something like professionally–the old way– you would need three weeks, five people, and would spend at least $5,000 to $25,000 depending on if you did it inhouse or with a consulting firm.

You can comment on the photo yourself here.

In words of Kanye: take this, haters!

This is insane… the team is building out the GTA 4 cheats and GTA 4 Walkthrough with the help of almost 600 people watching GTA 4 live.

This is one of the coolest uses of streaming technology I’ve ever seen. I love it! Additionally, this is one of the coolest games i’ve ever seen. Do check out the GTA 4 leaked videos.

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heading to the office to help buildout the Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough. Grand theft auto IV videos have been leaked.

These are the GTA 4 missions: