Jason Calacanis and Mahalo

Posted by neal in Web Apps on Aug 11th, 2007 | one response

At Gnomedex yesterday Jason Calacanis gave a presentation about Mahalo, his latest project. The idea is to deliver better search by making it human-powered.

In the Mahalo experience, editors filter out search results that turn out to be SPAM.

Dave Winer thinks Jason’s presentation was SPAM, so Dave yelled at Jason from the back of the room.

I enjoyed Jason’s presentation because he painted a nastalgic picture of the way the Web used to be. Search results used to be not only relevant, but also informative. Now, results may be relevant, but they also tend to be commercial.

Mahalo is new and you won’t get a result for every search, but if it lives up to Jason’s vision, it will become my home page.

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One Response to “Jason Calacanis and Mahalo”

  1. jason winer says:
    April 5, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    [...] Leo Laporte, Michael Arrington, Adam Curry, or almost any self-declared celebrity (no matter …my name is neal Jason Calacanis and MahaloDave Winer thinks Jason's presentation was SPAM, so Dave yelled at Jason from the back of the room. [...]