Bonnie Pierzina on drums, Leah Culver (pownce.com) on bass, Veronica Belmont (Mahalo Daily) on guitar, and Casey Mckinnon (Galacticast) belting out vocals at SXSW 2008. Technical difficulties couldn't stop tech's hottest video bloggers from rocking.
’ve got 99 friends on Facebook but I hear from Jason Calacanis more than anyone. He has turned Facebook into a marketing platform for his human-powered search engine, Mahalo. And he doesn’t pay Facebook a dime for this primo branding opportunity.
Google’s net profit margin last year was 29 percent. Amazon’s was 1.8 percent. Should it pay attention to ventures like Mahalo, the new humanly-edited search engine? Should we, as searchers, pay attention? Why?
Mahalo Greenhouse is where talented part-time Guides (PTGs) help Mahalo create the best search results on the internet for terms Mahalo has yet to cover. PTGs are paid $10 to $15 for each search result approved and added to Mahalo.
When human-powered search engine Mahalo launched in alpha earlier this month, comparisons to Google Search were inevitable. In reality, Mahalo is to Google like pie is to brussels sprouts. They're both food, but pie is much more fun to eat.