Comments on: Mahalo Daily Preview: Actually Pretty Good

By: Fabs

Fabs — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:27:38 +0000

The level seems to be the same of PayPerPost Rockstartup…

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:09 +0000

Rafael you’re a dumbass.

By: Becks

Becks — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:16:15 +0000

uh… huh??

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:19:58 +0000

Hahahah… the comments are as stupid as the video! But the video was intended to be!

Why so much rant for a simple video that just attempted to be funny? Let’s respect other’s job and effort. It’s not easy to perform funny videos, and it is well done. Not that funny, ok, but.. why attack the people behind it?

Moreover, the girl is so cute and clearly intelligent and talented. I could watch her other times.

They have 16 mi because of proved capability, enough to get major investors’ trust. And the BEST thing is: they still have free time to make some jokes! I think only very smart people could be in such a position.

If you guys work the whole day and don’t have a lot of money nor free time, that just proves how incompetent and one’s servant you are. (or maybe you’re just wasting too much time elaborating insignificant comments to TC).

I wonder how many of the previous “big men hidden behind the computer” have done any substantial thing in life… or how many of you have a wiki entry describing your merits, as the “friend’s girl” has. Or even how many of you could fit well in a screen!

Talk is cheap my friends!

By: Scott Kollins

Scott Kollins — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:38:27 +0000

This wasn’t even kind of enjoyable, and I like Mahalo. “We worked months to bring you this trailer.” Wait, seriously? Why say that, that’s just embarrassing. I wouldn’t advertise that fact. It’s obvious “the big JC’s” parts were done in about 30 seconds and nowhere near anything else. Does he think he’s Simon Cowell with the lame Diet Coke placement?

Veronica’s full of something… but it sure ain’t talent. So let’s break this down: Hmmm… we find according to her Wikipedia page she’s Ryan Block’s girlfriend. Well, there’s the Calacanis link, cause I’m sure he actually trolls CNet looking for little known producers/web people. Didn’t I read somewhere that Peter Rojas’ girlfriend was a Navigator or Scout or Sky Captain or whatever they’re calling them at Netsc- oh yea, Propeller. There’s also a Kristin Sample writing for TV Squad (part of Jason’s old blog network), surely she couldn’t be related to CK Sample. Hmmm…. anyone see a pattern forming.

She’s been there since July and this is all they could come up with? Oh, and that interview with Leeroy Jenkins that came about a year and a half too late. At this rate she should be reporting on the Bush/Kerry debate sometime in November. Oh, and if this remains “Daily” I’ll eat my hat.

And we also know that Arrington and JC are in bed together, so it’s not like poor Duncan would be able to (God forbid) “report” his actual feelings that this thing is a big pile of stink. TechCrunch’s daily Jason Evangelism should be starting any day now. Did you know Calacanis’ tears can cure cancer? Too bad he never cries. Way to shred that last bit of respect TC.

Disappointing. And seriously, I love Mahalo, this is just a ridiculously stupid attempt at giving a friend’s girl a job.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:47:47 +0000

I don’t find anything new there, seems very narrow audience.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:45:54 +0000

This is what happens when you give a group of people millions of dollars and they have too much free time on their hands.

By: Richard Corsale

Richard Corsale — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:35:56 +0000

I hope the founders have some parachute. These guys are parodying things that .01% of the population have ever even heard about. What IS a parody if you don’t get the reference??

anyway 16m would have made a nice web service or… something else

By: cweeb

cweeb — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:41:13 +0000

fact #1: breast size and video podcast go together
fact #2: jiggling is a key success factor

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:02:06 +0000

Calacanis is the embodiment of FAIL. It’s just a matter of time now before he collapses under his own irrelevance.

By: JF

JF — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:57:37 +0000

That was…embarassing, really embarassing. I couldn’t watch the whole thing, it was too painful. Very sophomoric effort. What a waste of time. They’ve got the money, don’t they? Get a real team of writers, or something.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:36:56 +0000

Proof again that you gotta watch what you say on Twitter! It just might end up on TechCrunch. Great was probably an exaggeration and Calacanis wasn’t like Loic L. charming but I got a kick out of watching him interact with Veronica.

By: sputnick

sputnick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:50:36 +0000

Mahalo still around? I’d have thought they’d be in the dead pool by now. But it seems they are even getting decent traffic. I wonder where that’s coming from.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:53:04 +0000

I am sorry but that trailer wasn’t even slightly funny…it was ridiculous and boring

By: rick

rick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:22:03 +0000

there is no such thing as a good video podcast

By: micfo

micfo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:23:59 +0000

Still there single post with no comments yet, I think they’ve very narrow audience niche, not sure though.

By: Chris Cardinal

Chris Cardinal — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:49:58 +0000

I laughed especially hard at someone else finally saying that Rocketboom’s not funny. Nor has it ever been. Like, ever.

Cheers to that, though farting? Really?

By: 16M

16M — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:08:21 +0000

what a waste of $16M.

By: RBA

RBA — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:59:19 +0000

Some people just aren’t funny nor interesting when they’re following a script somehow, and Jason seems to be one out of thousands that fall in that category. Veronica is ok but I think this format is overused and therefore not too compelling.

By: jeffbart

jeffbart — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:48:58 +0000

I think there’s more to creating compelling visual content than just owning a camera and dabbling with editing software. It don’t come that easy, huh?

By: karlfest

karlfest — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:45:27 +0000

I don’t get it.. I don’t get the reason for the site mahalo.com, and this podcast.
THere’s so much compelling content out there. Podcasting isn’t mature enough for a seinfeld themed nothing show…

By: Hasan Luongo

Hasan Luongo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:14:31 +0000

started out very funny – best part was rboom reference but kind of reaffirmed my gut feeling that Jason Calacanis is a wee full of himself and too many people care to
indulge.

By: Mark M

Mark M — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:09:15 +0000

Ugh, terrible. Are we supposed to be amused? Watching this makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable

Regarding content, Hollywood is still in charge by a mile.

How about we all work on what we’re good at? For the sake of the rest of the planet please focus on coding!

By: Amit Chowdhry

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:31:09 +0000

Good point Zaid. That one film director bought it for $1 though. We’ll see what happens Season 5.

By: Zaid

Zaid — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:22:23 +0000

Amit, don’t jump the gun…the actual Medellin hasn’t released yet on Entourage.

I’m betting it’ll be a hit in theatres only ‘cuz it failed at Cannes.