[Search-l] Old markets and methods vs. new

[Jason Calacanis]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Aerik Sylvan <aerik at thesylvans.com> wrote:
> <rant>So I was reading my wife's "Women First" magazine and saw that Mahalo
> was in their "top 100 useful websites".  I suppose I have to continue to
> give Jason credit where credit is due:  he has apparently very successfully
> tweaked the open directory model into a search application.  But at the same
> time, I am disgruntled and somewhat disgusted at this - in my humble
> opinion, it is 5% inspiration, and 95% marketing... </rant>

Thanks... I think. :-)

You'll be glad to know that we just opened up Mahalo so that any
registered user can edit the Guide Notes. You can also edit your own
Guide Note (sort of a different approach than Wikipedia), since we
check every edit to every page with our editorial team.

I've attached a shot of the Jimmy Wales page which could use an update
if anyone would like to add some fast facts. As you can see when
you're logged in there is an Edit key at the bottom of the Guite Note.

Note: we haven't publicly announced the editable Guide Notes, so
please don't blog it.

all the best,

jason
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