What do you think of the early press on Mahalo Answers?
http://www.techmeme.com/081215/p9#a081215p9
Including the first five stories below. What do you think of the coverage?
1. Jordan Golson / VentureBeat: Jason Calacanis' “Project A” is surprisingly compelling Mahalo Answers
2. Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Jason Calacanis Rolls Out the New Mahalo: Yahoo Answers-killer
3. Rafe Needleman / Webware.com: Mahalo expands human-powered search with paid Answers service
4. Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Mahalo Picks Up Where Google Answers Left Off
5. Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch - Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service? Mahalo Answers.
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http://www.talkingfuture.com/2008/11/will-google-rule-search-forever.html
I think that Answers should get plenty of good exposure, it seems as though exposure to a wider public is what Mahalo needs.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10122762-2.html?tag=mncol;title
Articles like that can only help to increase the number of users and make Mahalo a better place. Hopefully later today there will be plenty of mainstream coverage.
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M$I Seem to remember that Expert Exchange had something similar to the Tip jar, but don't know if they still have it. Your expertise at PR is of course going to help the adoption as well as this looking very good.
Nice touch to you Wii like characters! ;-) You and MS both!
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I love this quote: "I can’t help but be impressed by Mahalo Answers. The idea that people would pay for answers isn’t as flawed as the Google Answers experiment would lead many to believe. You only have to look at many, many outsourcing sites to see that basic questions often have a money value, even quick responses at below $10. The service is slick, well thought out, and there is much to like."
So honestly, I think that this is pretty favorable press for Mahalo. Depending on how much the word spreads, it will bring a lot of traffic and attention. In my opinion (and I have no clue about the demographic breakdown of your traffic), the real test will be how much it can pull in the people who are not tech savvy - the light web users who tend to patrol around a few favorite sites. And it's too early to tell if the vibrations from this positive reception will reach that far out.
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I think that the comment about the Light Web users is a great point. I think as tech savy people, a lot of times we have no idea how the less tech savy will take on something. I think facebook just worked with the non-tech savy because it solved the problem it set out too. Didn't matter if the Tech was good or bad, it did the job. That is Jason and his teams challenge. Showing people why and how this solves there problems (so to speak).
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M$PS- I'm more interested in what the reaction will be on Twitter, in light of the two "Tweetoversial" incidents this past week or so.
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