Mahalo Actively SPAMS the popular social networks. It is too bad, because the service would grow just fine organically. Instead their associates are sent emails telling them to thumbs up, digg, and bookmark pages. Don’t help Mahalo spam your social network of choice.
I like Mahalo on the front end, but I don’t like the way they spam Magnolia, Digg, Stumble and the other social sites. Every time a page is added to Mahalo, they go out and ask all their guides to vote for the new page. This kind of organized voting is against the terms of service on Digg and other sites- I hate these sort of forced results where Mahalo gains some kind of false authority. If it was natural and normal users of these services added the site’s pages in droves that would be one thing but when Calacanis forces it down my throat – I can’t respect it in the same way. Mahalo’s visibility is manufactured and their “battle against SEO” becomes a bunch of link lists to traditional media and the webs biggest sites, not the little guys that offer the most quality of information. This kind of spam strikes me as desperate as Mahalo struggles to become used by someone, anyone as their first means of search.
Well I didn’t need Mahalo to tell me IMDB is a good site for movie information or that orbitz is a good place for cheap tickets- you offer no value over the algorithm that other engines use, and as far as relevancy and utility, Ask.com kicks your ass.
Yahoo Reports that China is considering changing the rules in dealing with last names. In a new measure “parents will be able to combine their surnames for their children, a move that could open up 1.28 million new possibilities.”
I have been using Keyword Discovery to research search patterns and I am incredibly frustrated. Word Tracker is no better, the related search terms that these engines find are only weakly conceptually related and always have many outliers that don’t pertain to your specific audience.
Calacanis betting on editorial control again? Really? Netscape cannot be called a disaster but the editorial control exerted on the site appeals to an audience even more narrow than the readers of digg. In the face of
GestureBank can’t compete as the masses willingly volunteer to contribute to the huge completist metrics from search behind Google’s login, Analytics, and now Feedburner.
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