[Search-l] _Techcrunch_: Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo Today: Human Powered Search

Thu May 31 10:33:20 UTC 2007

On 5/31/07, Jason McCabe Calacanis <jason at calacanis.com> wrote:
>
> Right now on mahalo anyone can submit a link and debate the results on the
> page... Search for twitter as an example. So, I think we are on the page
> here. We just feel that you need a large core group of guides to be
> admins/build out the core/speed up development.
>
> Who knows, if people really, really want to work for free maybe we will
> let them write results. :).

Free.. I guess u r missing the philosophies behind free and open software
here fully..

A person will work for free only if it is needed for him in his daily work..
All open source and free software that evolved popular followed the same
principle before actually making some profit.

I guess you are aiming to commercialize rather than making a project
social.. its no use of talking about the *free* software to u i guess..

Does anyone even know what wikia search is right now? Is it lucene-based,
> new code, still be debted in some dark room filled with vc cash?!? :)
> J

Dont know what Jermie and Jimmy are planning.. As they are project owners,
they have the full rights to make it a open model or closed model.. If they
plan to make it private and employ some people like you do then, most of the
open source people who came to contribute will layout from this project..

 AFAIK, all open and free software are started by non-profit organization
and community picks up it and adds features of their interest. The main
objective of the free/open software is not just commercialization. Its all
about socializing and freedom so that the whole world benefits from it..
There shouldn't be a central point which bags all the money and invests all
the money..

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Pushparajan V" <vprajan at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:44:39
> To:jason at calacanis.com
> Cc:jer <jeremie at jabber.org>, search-l at wikia.com
> Subject: Re: [Search-l] _Techcrunch_: Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo
> Today: Human Powered Search
>
> Being a company and organizing the project within the open source
> developers is a good way to do.. But dont see profit until it gains the
> popularity.. Search terms cannot be compiled using a hand full of salaried
> employees.. Its better to have a small set of employees who can encourage
> and coordinate the open source search engine effort instead of people who
> can frame top 25k terms.. Because search terms vary each and every second..
> one term will be popular for 1 month and suddenly it will go down in the
> next second.. So, its better if you move open to create a open source search
> movement..
>
> Please.. Please.. don't go private and hide the creativity that can form
> up in the open source world..
>
>
>
> On 5/31/07, Jason McCabe Calacanis <jason at calacanis.com: <mailto:
> jason at calacanis.com> > wrote:People own their submission, but we own
> content produced by the fulltime staff which get benefits, stock options,
> and a salary.
>
> We are looking for fulltime folks right now--wikipedian types--who want to
> help build out the top 10-25k terms.If your one of these folks ping me.
>
> Yes, it is a directory of sorts... But in a search format powered by wiki
> software. So, a hybrid. When we don't have a result we show google. If wikia
> open source search is good we will certainly use it for long tail
> searches--looking forward to that time!!
>
> Also, we have a dev team so we would be open to helping build it out.
>
> Mahalo for the feedback,
>
> J
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jer <jeremie at jabber.org: <mailto:jeremie at jabber.org> >
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:32:32
> To:Jason Calacanis <
> jason at calacanis.com: <mailto:jason at calacanis.com> >
> Cc:search-l at wikia.com: <mailto:Cc:search-l at wikia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Search-l] _Techcrunch_: Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo
> Today: Human Powered Search
>
> > also, if anyone is looking to work (for pay) on a human-powered search
> > engine send my your resume. :-)
>
> Employee-powered search?
>
> When I read "Mahalo's goal is to hand-write the top 10,000 search
> terms." I was a little perplexed as that seems more like a directory
> than a search engine, but "search" definitely gets a lot more buzz
> and "directory" is a very tired word :)
>
> > sorry... but we would have to pay you.
>
> Hmm, does this mean that all the content is produced and owned by
> Mahalo Inc.?Or is there user-contributed content copyright those
> users or the GFDL / Creative Commons?
>
> >> as I mentioned in my comments with the press we hope Wikia's open
> >> source search works so we can leverage it for when our humans don't
> >> have a result.
>
> That'd be cool, and I hope the corollary is always true as well, that
> Mahalo is fully crawlable and indexable, so far so good since there's
> no robots.txt, *grin*.
>
> Jer
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