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Mahalo Tweaks Its Business Model | Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:02:34 +0000

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By: joshua palau

joshua palau — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:40:09 +0000

Um…wasn’t this the About.com model?

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Crystal Ball Etc. ==> 06/02/09 « Strategy 403 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:26:02 +0000

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By: Mahalo Pays Users to Maintain Pages – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

Mahalo Pays Users to Maintain Pages – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:03:13 +0000

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By: mark moran

mark moran — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:58:55 +0000

The original premise & promise of Mahalo was that it would employ human judgment to clear away all the garbage in search engine results and give you only the top quality results you need. Now it jams as much info into a page as possible so that it SEOs well, and pays writers and editors a pittance, motivating them to create quick shoddy work. I understand the economics, but will any intelligent user really want to use this product ? There is a large role in the Internet’s future for well-curated content that clears away all the clutter and directs users only to credible and comprehensive resources; it looks like Mahalo has veered off that road.

By: Gregory Kohs

Gregory Kohs — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:40:40 +0000

Interesting. I like Jason and all, but it’s disappointing that he’s giving dedicated maintenance workers only 50% of their “claimed” page’s ad revenues. Revenue sharing for content has been done before (Squidoo, Helium come to mind), but they always take a hefty cut of the action away from the creator.

Over on MyWikiBiz, for over two years, the volunteer editors can claim a page about any legal entity, maintain it, and keep 100% of the ad revenues within their content.

MyWikiBiz draws only from the ad revenue generated by the thin footer of text-link ads at the bottom of every page. The top editors are pulling down about $30-$50 per month from ads.

By: Mahalo: More Spin on Search and Money : Beyond Search

Mahalo: More Spin on Search and Money : Beyond Search — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:50:54 +0000

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By: Bing: Up and Close | Mark Evans

Bing: Up and Close | Mark Evans — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:02:05 +0000

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By: Max Kalehoff

Max Kalehoff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:38:38 +0000

Peter: “Calacanis says some of his pages are generating up to $10,000 a year, but most will make far less. Will that be enough to encourage people to build and maintain Web pages on a piecework basis?” You should dig into what the actual distribution of keyword query frequency is. My hunch, if the major search engines are any indication, is that disproportionately few keywords drive the vast majority of traffic (by a longshot). Which would probably translate into a similarly distributed frequency of visits to member-owned search pages. On one hand, this validates the potential of a human-powered search engine, in that there’s a lot of traffic goes to finite number of pages. But it also questions the real money-making potential for users. And “users are really keeping 37.5 percent of each dollar their page generates”? But how much is Google Adsense keeping from the original split? I’m not knocking Mahalo, and perhaps this model will succeed. But these were my initial questions.

By: Is Jason Calacanis Reinventing Wikipedia As We Know It? ~ Web Developers

Is Jason Calacanis Reinventing Wikipedia As We Know It? ~ Web Developers — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:27:25 +0000

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By: Dave Esmo

Dave Esmo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:05:13 +0000

Bah. Another act of desperation on the behalf of Mahalo/Calacanis.

Look how just few days ago, Calacanis was caught misapropriating other site’s content: blog.fluther.com/blog/2009/06/01/an-open-letter-to-jason-calacanis/

This will be just another content theft site but on a large scale.

And it will FAIL!

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:03:28 +0000

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By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:39:22 +0000

This has been tried by Squidoo. It’s also similar to knol.

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