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M$2 December 17, 2008 04:56 AM

How did you first discover Mahalo?

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marcel m marcel m
 
 December 17, 2008 05:43 AM
When I was doing some research on traffic rankings through alexa and one of the websites had mahalo linking back to it. I found the name mahalo very African sounding,actually Bantu sounding.In my dialect its comes closest to meaning "that place" so when i checked it out and found that my initial assumptions were wrong,and that in actual fact it is a human powered non algorithmic search engine. I became hooked by the audacity of the concept,and that explains why I am here at mahalo answers.
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chrismonto... chrismonto...
 
December 17, 2008 04:57 AM
Tech Crunch

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espreson espreson
 
December 17, 2008 02:02 PM
Same through Tech Crunch post, "Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid To Submit Search Results" @ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/13/mahalo-greenhouse-get-paid-to-submit-search-results/

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blankity b... blankity b...
 
December 17, 2008 04:58 AM
I found out Veronica Belmont moved from CNet.com to Mahalo Daily, thus Mahalo. That is when I had a small crush on her, from her work on CNet. It was a while back...
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My heart and soul.


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albanian albanian
 
December 17, 2008 04:58 AM
It was mentioned with a link on one of the internet news sites that I follow. I don't remember which one, probably BBC or Reuters. It did not mention that this was a beta or perhaps early start up. There are far too few people yet for the site to be useful. However, it is still fun.

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twitchy twitchy
 
December 17, 2008 04:59 AM
Twitter @JasonCalacanis

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mrhelmsc mrhelmsc
 
December 17, 2008 05:00 AM
I woke up this morning with a choice... I could either come in to work today and work, or I could come in to work today and play on http://www.allmyfaves.com , which is quickly becoming one of my favorite websites. I chose the allmyfaves route, and found a link to this site under weekly favorites. Now this site is definately one of my favorites of the day.

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bugsandins... bugsandins...
 
December 17, 2008 05:00 AM
CNet.com

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jondy1703 jondy1703
 
December 17, 2008 05:01 AM
I discovered Mahalo via TWiT (This Week in Tech) when Jason Calacanis was on and from there on I began watching Mahalo Daily!

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spoon spoon
 
December 17, 2008 05:01 AM
I first heard about Mahalo when Jason mentioned it on Twit!
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http://twit.tv/


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ssharon ssharon
 
December 17, 2008 05:01 AM
Third vote for This Week in Tech!

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connectedg... connectedg...
 
December 17, 2008 05:02 AM
From Leo Laporte and TWiT

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pescina pescina
 
December 17, 2008 05:02 AM
I hadn't heard of it until I read about Mahalo Answers at www.wired.com (yesterday).
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/mahalo-answers.html


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benau benau
 
December 17, 2008 05:03 AM
An article on http://www.altsearchengines.com/

In my mind Mahalo is the 'human powered' search engine and not the 'equation' search engine of Google. A valid approach and as a librarian I respect the founder for taking this approach.

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joshwillis joshwillis
 
December 17, 2008 05:04 AM
Techcrunch
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techcrunch.com


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poindexter poindexter
 
December 17, 2008 05:06 AM
From a mention by Jason on TWiT.

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masstrivia... masstrivia...
 
December 17, 2008 05:08 AM
news.yahoo.com

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sangosimo sangosimo
 
December 17, 2008 05:09 AM
http://twitter.com/jasoncalacanis

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bthj872gv bthj872gv
 
December 17, 2008 05:10 AM
lifehacker.com

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eatthatpop... eatthatpop...
 
December 17, 2008 05:11 AM
An article on google.com/news that linked to an abcnews.com article :)

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budgallant budgallant
 
December 17, 2008 06:36 AM
Same with me.

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nicktr nicktr
 
December 17, 2008 05:12 AM
This Week in Tech!
Jason utilises the show well to build his own brands and market his own products. I learn about a lot of things there!

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justinleun... justinleun...
 
December 17, 2008 05:15 AM
Jason Calacanis's tweets.
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Twitter


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boyter boyter
 
December 17, 2008 05:19 AM
This Week in Tech. Although to be honest I dont visit it very often.

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wtl wtl
 
December 17, 2008 05:19 AM
Jason Calacanis Twittered about it going live - but he had been talking about it on Twitter for some time.
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https://twitter.com/JasonCalacanis/status/1058176795


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jsgotangco jsgotangco
 
December 17, 2008 05:22 AM
Veronica Belmont. Period.

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dwilliams1... dwilliams1...
 
December 17, 2008 05:23 AM
google searching yahoo answers and came up with Mahalo

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px px
 
December 17, 2008 05:23 AM
I found it from the inter-webs
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http://gigaom.com/


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mooncat mooncat
 
December 17, 2008 05:24 AM
www.twit.tv/twit podcast when Jason Calacanis was on it (whichever time that was).

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hartwell hartwell
 
December 17, 2008 05:28 AM
Listening to Jason on TWiT.

"TWiT 173: Dvoracanis"
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http://www.twit.tv/173


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nowwhatnap... nowwhatnap...
 
December 17, 2008 05:29 AM
Google News

For the win

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tmarx tmarx
 
December 17, 2008 05:30 AM
A TechCrunch post

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comiclist comiclist
 
December 17, 2008 05:31 AM
I discovered it via FriendFeed, either by following Jason Calacanis or one of his followers there.
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http://www.friendfeed.com


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yeah568 yeah568
 
December 17, 2008 05:37 AM
I discovered Mahalo when I read lifehacker.com this morning - they had a post on Mahalo Answers. The power of popular blogs...
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http://www.lifehacker.com


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mewzikjunk... mewzikjunk...
 
December 17, 2008 05:38 AM
TechCrunch

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valz valz
 
December 17, 2008 05:39 AM
When mentioned in Blog Maverick at:
http://blogmaverick.com/
on February 27, 2008,
when Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and HDNet said:

"We don’t hunt through pages and pages of Digg or any other “wisdom of the crowds” engine. in fact, I’ve begun to use Mahalo (disclosure, Im an investor) more and more simply because it has a real person extend options beyond the basic algorithm."

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/02/27/will-you-watch-what-i-watch/
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http://blogmaverick.com/2008/02/27/will-you-watch-what-i-watch/
http://blogmaverick.com/


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ckinniburg... ckinniburg...
 
December 17, 2008 05:42 AM
I believe I found out about Mahalo through TWiT. I know that's where I found out about Jason Calacanis, and I think they were talking about Mahalo that episode. I may have found outhrough Calacanis' email newsletter, or maybe his blog.

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tim tim
 
December 17, 2008 05:51 AM
Jason Calacanis, who I've followed since his early days.

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jumpingurl... jumpingurl...
 
December 17, 2008 05:53 AM
From www.lifehacker.com
I was just doing some little browsing there, and I found out this website..

http://lifehacker.com/5109977/mahalo-answers-offers-cash-tips-for-best-answers

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sixhoursag... sixhoursag...
 
December 17, 2008 06:10 AM
I first heard about Mahalo on TWiT. My usage was very light at first, but I use the site every day now.
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http://www.twit.tv
http://www.mahalo.com


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zch24 zch24
 
December 17, 2008 06:23 AM
Though a blog site: yugatech.com.

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menlotechn... menlotechn...
 
December 17, 2008 06:34 AM
From the Leo / Twit episodes.

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dsgamer dsgamer
 
December 17, 2008 06:51 AM
I was wandering around ustream and came upon jason calacanis which I realized a bit later I had been listening to on twit for the last year and after he started talking about mahalo so I checked it out and loved it and followed him on twitter

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brook brook
 
December 17, 2008 06:52 AM
I heard about it at http://arstechinca.com ..

Nice little puff piece on this whole Mahalo Answers do-hickey that tweaked my curiosity...
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http://arstechnica.com


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mytechtour mytechtour
 
December 17, 2008 06:54 AM
I got it from TechCrunch Blog. With nice reviews.

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xykobas3rd xykobas3rd
 
December 17, 2008 08:06 AM
TechTV had The Screen Savers
The Screen Savers had Kevin Rose
I continued to read Kevin's blog after he left TechTV
Rose eventually started digg/diggnation
He mentioned he was gonna be on TWIT
Jason Calacanis was also on TWIT
I started following Calacanis
Calacanis eventually started Mahalo!

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sdofner sdofner
 
December 17, 2008 08:44 AM
There was a blurb about Mahalo in the NY Times Tech newslwtter that I receive.

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powerfulma... powerfulma...
 
December 17, 2008 10:10 AM
all of us comes through search engine or through blogs posting,are through references from other websites these are the possible ways to come


But mainly all will come through a search engine and then to a website and reference from that website leads to mahalo.com

i came from google search engine to this website ; http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2007/06/mahalo-pays-you-for-search-results-15.html and then to mahalo.com

mainly traffics comes from search engine

i think all mahalo users accept this fact i think so.

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weirdling weirdling
 
December 17, 2008 12:01 PM
I believe it was either Engadget or Ars.technica.

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brendo brendo
 
December 17, 2008 01:40 PM
When Veronica Belmont was hosting for Engadget during CES, I think she mentioned Mahalo Daily at some point and so I started watching the podcast. Then I moved onto following her, Jason and Lon on Twitter, and now reading/using Mahalo.com.
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http://www.mahalo.com/Ces_2008_videos


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djscram djscram
 
December 17, 2008 02:04 PM
Pretty sure I heard it on a Danny Sullivan podcast originally, but I heard about Mahalo answers through GMSV
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Memory


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beltira beltira
 
December 17, 2008 02:06 PM
Lifehacker

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chaimchaik... chaimchaik...
 
December 17, 2008 02:07 PM
I Found out about Mahalo through Lifehacker
You can visit them on www.lifehacker.com

Lifehacker is an excellent recourse of information and tips for how to do the things especially on the internet and with firefox
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http://lifehacker.com
http://lifehacker.com/5109977/mahalo-answers-offers-cash-tips-for-best-answ...


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lataz lataz
 
December 17, 2008 02:21 PM
Calacanis.com

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phunk01 phunk01
 
December 17, 2008 02:50 PM
From Veronica Belmont leaving cnet.com and BOL to start Mahalo Daily!

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cameti2 cameti2
 
December 17, 2008 03:13 PM
Hearing Tech Podcasts!

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jpb242 jpb242
 
December 17, 2008 04:41 PM
Listening to Jason Calacanis as a guest host on "This Week in Tech" podcast by Leo Laport.
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http://twit.tv/twit


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tooguitars tooguitars
 
December 17, 2008 05:22 PM
I first discovered Mahalo by reading an article on Ars Technica website.

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carriep carriep
 
December 17, 2008 05:26 PM
I first discovered Mahalo after hearing about it from a friend on Twitter. I'd occasionally visit the site and liked what I saw.

A few months later, another friend on Twitter tweeted that Mahalo was hiring freelancers. That's when I really started getting into Mahalo in depth.

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joshkelly joshkelly
 
December 17, 2008 06:01 PM
Jason Calacanis promoting his new project Mahalo.com on This Week In Tech (TWIT). Jason continues to be a regular contributor to TWIT and helps make it one of the be tech podcasts available.
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www.twit.tv


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thsulli thsulli
 
December 17, 2008 08:19 PM
A quick google shout out from their news page

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gsmaverick gsmaverick
 
December 18, 2008 12:48 AM
Mostly from TechCrunch and from TC40/50 as well as through twitter and Jason's relentless promotion.

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jason jason
 
December 18, 2008 03:09 AM
Hmmm... either Calacanis.com (long time feed subscriber) or perhaps Twitter. Or perhaps something else altogether, kind of been keeping up since the the Silicon Alley Reporter days. My money would be on the calacanis.com feed however...

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edthedoc edthedoc
 
December 18, 2008 03:28 AM
Jason's email list

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jthizz jthizz
 
December 18, 2008 03:54 AM
I was looking for information on Left 4 Dead

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