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• 06.27.08
  Could Anything Disrupt Google?
  Social Media

  Google seems to be on a tear. The 100 pound gorilla in the technology space. Unstoppable. But… Storage space is increasingly a commodity as evidenced by Google's Gmail. What happens when a user can download the entire Internet? Searches could then be conducted instantaneously. Advertisements would be unnecessary. Thoughts?
  
  
• 01.15.08
  News Flash! Google Isn’t Perfect
  My Experiences

  The other day my roommate and I used Google Maps to look up the address of a bar where we were meeting friends. The image above is the location our search returned. Clearly, 14 Orchard Street in New York City is not located in New Jersey. Google isn’t perfect. The more we come to rely on it, and other web-based companies as sources for critical information, the more scary such results are. ----- Update: Just looked at at my feed reader and Venture Chronicles is reporting that Gmail is borked...that's ironic timing
  
  
• 07.01.07
  Yahoo Could Blow Mahalo Out of the Water
  Social Media

  What do I mean? Well it occurred to me just now that Yahoo already has its own version of human powered search. Yahoo owns Del.icio.us. I have been using Del.icio.us as my very own ’people powered’ search engine for months now without ever thinking about how similar it is to Mahalo. Del.icio.us is a social book marking site that allows tagging. Essentially as people surf the web they find websites and resources they like and then ’tag’ them with various intuitive keywords. Because the people using Del.icio.us tend to be the higher IQ portion of society (you gotta be a ...
  
  
• 06.13.07
  The Ultimate Summer Internship is Hiring!
  Campus Chatter, Social Media

  Looking to work for one of the hottest web startups in the world? Want a boss who is universally known as technology genius? Want to work from the comfort of your own home? Want the opportunity to research and learn about new topics? Want to work for a company where you can see your results? Want to set your own hours (i.e. sleep until 10am?) Want to make $30+ per hour? You Can! Sort of’ Jason Calacanis has announced the launch of Mahalo Greenhouse. The Greenhouse program allows members of public (basically Mahalo interns) to build search result pages for keywords not currently included in Mahalo results. ...
  
  
• 05.31.07
  Theory Week: Mahalo Principle
  Brands and Marketing, Great Thinkers, Social Media

  I have been reading a lot of Duncan Watts recently and I’ve been getting into network analysis theory. Duncan wrote Six Degrees, a book I will review at a later date, and he also penned a recent article in the New York Times discussing ’cumulative advantage,’ or the idea of the rich getting richer. The point of this post is to suggest renaming this concept the ’Mahalo Principle.’ Here is why’ Undoubtedly you have heard someone allude to the ’rich keep getting richer’ - It sure seems that way. Turns out that there is a factual basis for this relating ...
  
  
• 05.30.07
  Just a Test
  Pop Culture, Social Media

  So what do all these words have in common? How powerful are they? hidden palms, the heartbreak kid, leap castle, the next best thing, brooke marks, google gears, nathan sawaya, benji schwimmer, taylor handley, museum near san francisco california united states, blue moon, lisa ann walter, brian Hargrove, ufl, united football league, so you think you can dance judges, dirtyscottsdale.com, kobe Bryant, cynthia Rodriguez, wade robson, craft in America, sam maloof, alex Rodriguez, fred Thompson, dirty Scottsdale, sid and nancy, caroline lyders, stray rod, spelling bee, stanley hotel, waverley street palo alto ca 94306, amber heard, brookemarks.com, look who’s talking now, ...
  
  
• 05.23.07
  The Day StumbleUpon Decided to Become Lame
  Business Models, Social Media, Social Networking

  I used to really enjoy using StumbleUpon as a means for social book-marking, learning about new sites and helping to drive traffic to my blog. Around April 17th, StumbleUpon removed the audience feature. Pronet Advertising has a nice write up about all this. The reason cited for the move was that Audience apparently had an adverse effect on SEO. Lame. Shortly after April 17th I realized that the only reason I had previously chosen StumbleUpon over del.icio.us was because StumbleUpon gave me incentive for using it. One a given day 15-25% of my blog’s traffic came from StumbleUpon and the amount ...
  
  
• 01.11.07
  Does Google Manipulate Page Rankings for its Properties?
  Social Media, Social Networking

  The other day I was using a page rank checking tool to compare one of my websites versus the competition. Having recently read the news that three of the top Google searches during 2006 were names of social networks, I decided to run a little experiment. To recap, the most popular Google searches for all of 2006 were: Bebo Myspace World cup Metacafe Radioblog As most users know, the "tops dogs" in terms of tracking user traffic are: ComScore and Alexa. Here is a list of the most popular networks according to ComScore, as of May 2006: During 2006 the most popular was without question Myspace. Based simply on ...
  
  

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