Comments on: Mahalo Will Now Pay You To Create Topic Pages

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By: Mahalo Will Now Pay You To Create Topic Pages « Mahalo

Mahalo Will Now Pay You To Create Topic Pages « Mahalo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:39:50 +0000

[...] To Create Topic Pages By nextupresearch1 Jason Calacanis wants to inject what he calls the “Skeeball economy” into Mahalo, his highly tuned site for creating and searching topic pages. But Mahalo is hitting a ceiling in [...]

By: The Mahalo Method: Cut costs by paying users to produce content | IT and Software Development

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:47:30 +0000

[...] to TechCrunch: “People who come from search engines tend to be drive-by traffic. They look at 1.5 pages [...]

By: The Mahalo Method: Cut costs by paying users to produce content | rapid-DEV.net

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:45:04 +0000

[...] to TechCrunch: “People who come from search engines tend to be drive-by traffic. They look at 1.5 pages [...]

By: If Content is King, Community is Queen

If Content is King, Community is Queen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:02:24 +0000

[...] – who’s adding a lot of great content. If you look around, there are players (such as Jason Calacanis of Mahalo) big and small using this method. It can be a good way to keep your good contributors around once [...]

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:29:19 +0000

Q. How did Wikipedia get to the top of the Google results and become a top-10 website?

A. By not ever thinking about Google results and not caring about becoming a top-10 website – we just got on with creating something worth having.

Of course, Jason has long advocated Wikipedia fill itself with ads. With a track record like his, we’ll be sure to take such advice as seriously as is warranted.

By: Engago team

Engago team — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:31:58 +0000

When will Mahalo pay to visit their site?
That’s only the next step.

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» LINKLOAD vom 03.06.2009 [UPLOAD Blog] — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:51:58 +0000

[...] Eine Art Wikipedia mit Bezahlung? Auf Mahalo soll man nun jedenfalls Geld verdienen können. [...]

By: girlvinyl

girlvinyl — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:07:36 +0000

Seriously? You’re only getting 5m uniques a month, with a goal of 10m? My nightmare-hellhole-troll wiki gets 30-35m uniques a month.

Just throw up a mediawiki instance with no rules and you’re done.

By: lance

lance — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:16:47 +0000

(Disclosure: Calacanis is our partner in putting on the TechCrunch50 conference)

stop kisssing jason ass since jason is an ass

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 18:01:52 +0000

[...] Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch points out, you can go to Mahalo and claim pages for yourself. But don’t expect to get paid just like a [...]

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:35:10 +0000

I say the guy is trying to create a model that contributors and the publisher both benefit from and thats a good thing.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:02:32 +0000

Incentivized spamming

By: Amit Pbx

Amit Pbx — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:49:47 +0000

This is actually a very interesting post.
I didn’t knew about Mahalo, and I just find myself
joining to the community and creating a Mahalo-Page for my hobby

Thanks for that!

By: James from FaceySpacey.com

James from FaceySpacey.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:30:11 +0000

what is this mumbo jumbo hype nonesense you’re talkin. You sound erudite, but make no point.

Anyway, the bottom line is Mahalo is a nobody and is fledgling around with basic ideas instead of really innovating. they should just release their tools as another SEO site-generator script lol!

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:10:55 +0000

Decent Idea. revenue sharing concept is good

By: James from FaceySpacey.com

James from FaceySpacey.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:40:24 +0000

Yea, Mahalo beting wikipedia! Somebody has NO clue.

By: Jehosephat

Jehosephat — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:04:42 +0000

It’s interesting you bring up the first-come, first-served issue. This is exactly the problem with other user-generated topic page arrangements – they are a quick fix with huge future potential problems. Technorati rolled this out several months ago and no one (incl. Techcrunch) batted an eye.

By: Laura Hale

Laura Hale — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:42:10 +0000

The wiki community can do a lot in terms of content. It frequently just needs a push with automation in order to help develop stub content, which users can build from much more easily. When I’ve created pages on Mahalo, the basic build just feels so… pathetic when compared to say wikiHow and AboutUs.

The big wikis that are not WP that are listed on http://s23.org/...argest_html.php all have some sort form of automation to help build stub content.

If I were part of the community, I might feel more inclined to help and create content. I help edit on AboutUs, improve my page and other pages, hang out in the support chat. Mahalo? Nope. Why? The value isn’t there. It isn’t worth the time. I have over 100 links on Mahalo. In the past month? I’ve received 12 visits from Mahalo. The value isn’t there for me as some one promoting my content. (And the content isn’t there for me as a user. Niche content isn’t covered well. Google. After seeing if my niche content I can’t find links to on Fan History.)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:32:11 +0000

Jason needs to read Predictably Irrational.

With his virtual currency, he’s turned Mahalo sites into being affected by market norms versus the social norms that sites like Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers use. Cash can work as a disincentive if not used properly and his sites are going to struggle because he doesn’t understand how to leverage social incentives properly.

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http://www.compareuklifeinsurance.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:27:50 +0000

Now the site will become spammers haven, no doubt about it. Almost all of the adsense revenue sharing sites suck.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:16:02 +0000

“Mahalo is and always will be nothing but a huge SEO/SEM play.”

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

By: Luis Pereira

Luis Pereira — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:00:43 +0000

I like the new look. Mahalo is looking more and more like Yahoo but with UGC.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:33:12 +0000

One thing you cannot accuse Jason of is innovating, Hubpages and squidoo have been doing this for years. As with Mahalo Answers, Calacanis gets a huge amount if publicity (most of which from Techcrunch) for rolling out poor clones of other more successful sites.

By: Adam {Qajack}

Adam {Qajack} — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:04:40 +0000

It’s an interesting play, agree with Erick it’s problematic if people squat on topics, which sounds as uncomfortable as I intended it to sound.

We’re in the Q&A space and it’s packed, needs some shaking up, well done JC.