Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Maybe NewsCorp. is dumb enough to give this a shot, but - contra Jason Calacanis - it won't work : Microsoft wants to pay News Corp and other large publishers to de-list their Web sites from Google's search index, the Financial Times reports. The idea is to force Google to pay for content, thinning its currently fat margins. As Business Insider notes, content from NewsCorp stories will find their...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As the founder of Weblogs Inc., Jason Calacanis is, in many ways, the cofounder of the new AOL, which will be built around the company's network of 80 blogs and content sites. So when we asked the Mahalo CEO for his take on AOL's future, we thought he'd toss a helpful quote our way. We got much more. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Kudos To AOL's Tim Armstrong... Here's To A New Beginning...
A Wandering Eyre (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I have been listening to TWiT, The Week in Tech podcast, for a little while now and I really like the banter on the show. I am a couple weeks behind, but show 219 had a great discussion of net neutrality. The transcript is available, but here are my two favorite quotes: Jason Calacanis: But for [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Every so often, internet pontificators try to come up with ways to "kill Google." It's a silly game, but in an oddly timed move, three people (who have all put forth "how to kill Google" ideas in the past) all suddenly published similar ideas, yet again. Jason Calacanis , Mark Cuban and Tom Foremski all posted similar ideas about how certain sites (such as the top sites in the top...
WordPress Planet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Last week I was on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis and Joel Spolsky . Here’s the show:
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
First it was Calacanis, now it's Mark Cuban - they both have the same "brilliant" idea for knocking Google back a few notches: Broadcast.com co-founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's idea is simplicity itself: Just pay the top 1,000 websites a million bucks per to de-list themselves from Google. There are two problems with this idea: It only works if most of the sites go along -...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Jason Calacanis is starting a new company called the Open Angel Forum. The reason he is starting this company is because he is sick of angel groups such as the Keiretsu Forum, Maverick Angels, and AlwaysOn charging start-ups for presenting. The investment company that Calacanis is starting will be a for-profit and will have [...]
broadstuff (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
4 Market Model showing players and barriers to end-to-end play Good article by Tim O'Reilly on the strong trends by various players to try and re-wall the Web - firstly by players with monopolies : The Apple iPhone is the hottest web access device around, and like Facebook, while it connects to the web, it plays by a different set of rules. Anyone can put up a website, or launch a new Windows or Mac...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
When signing up for Twitter there is a list of recommended users to follow that appears. Those who were fortunate enough to be on that list of people instantly received hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers. Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs Inc. and Mahalo believed that the suggested user list was [...]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, continues to slowly but steadily gain market share. During October, Bing represented 9.9% of the market, up from 9.4% in September, according to comScore. That's up from 8.4% in June -- an 18% improvement. That is significant, but not overwhelming. Yahoo got slammed, losing almost a full percentage point of the market, to 18.0%, down from 18.8% in September. Google...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Last month, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams stated that the he "desperately" wanted to retire the company's suggested user list - the list of Twitter accounts shown to new users of the service to help them find interesting people to follow. At the time, he hinted that it might evolve into something more "Twittery and democratic." But now, what was a maybe" before...
Humblement (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The story and debate around Rupert Murdoch blocking Google from indexing News Corp. websites (Fox, WSJ, etc) has been fun to read. Techcrunch reported on Jason Calacanis , CEO of the search engine Mahalo, who thought it was a great idea: [Calacanis's] simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it... If other media...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
TechCrunch agrees with Cory's (and Jason Calacanis') predictions from last week: Murdoch is about to sign an exclusivity deal with an also-ran search engine. (There was more at the Graun.) Mike Arrington, however, suggests this will succeed in hurting Google....
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
TechCrunch agrees with Cory's (and Jason Calacanis') predictions from last week: Murdoch is about to sign an exclusivity deal with an also-ran search engine. (There was more at the Graun.) Mike Arrington, however, suggests this will succeed in hurting Google....
Soxiam Wiki RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
OopsCrunch : perhaps one the best premature ejaculation i’ve ever seen online. can you imagine the size of hard-on arrington must’ve had while writing this “article” cozily wrapped in 20 or so ad banners? the best part: mention of jason calacanis .
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whipdaddy | 06/24/2008
Internet entrepreneur and business rockstar (CEO of Mahalo.com ) Jason Calacanis is probably sitting at the edge of his chair everyday counting down the days until he takes delivery of his Orange Tesla Roadster - Production model #16 in the Signature 100 collection!! Jason Calacanis Tesla Roadster Production Model #16
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