So obviously recent events has me thinking more about Mahalo and their proposed model of organizing information. It’s spectacularly flawed not just in scalability, but in it’s core concept. Consider the following:
With the Mahalo model a given result is created by an editor. It is up to that editor, or group of editors, to be the sole decision maker in what businesses get exposure. You have to wonder how they will make this decision or gather their pool of… Read More
So this series of Scoble videos are making the blog rounds and well, Scoble pretty much caught a nasty case of foot-in-mouth disease if you ask me, brought on by a nasty Calcanis infection. Apparently Mahalo is going to end Google in 4 years (as well as Yahoo! and MSN) and SEO is entirely devoted to spamming the engines.
Wow, now I haven’t seen that level of reckless ignorance since, well, earlier today when Michael Vick said… Read More
The Digg Effect, Getting Dugg, Diggination. No other news article discovery service to date has quite had the strong broad appeal of Digg. People have coined specific phrases to characterize the impact it can have on getting noticed.. or wreaking havoc on servers. What the web has done for getting content published, sites like Digg have done for getting published works read en masse.
The short answer for how Digg works is a short description and title are submitted for… Read More
Fellow Full Sailor Manny Hernandez posted this article on Digg about a mention in an LA Times article referencing his TuDiabetes.com site. Good to see a worthy venture like that get some high profile coverage! Go read the article and give him a Digg!
Google claimed that “Google Bombing” was over, but it appears Colbert has lit the fuse again somehow. Read about the history and downfall of Google Bombing here. Well Colbert set out to Google Bomb himself to the top of the results for “Greatest Living American“, which today he accomplished (1 day!), but upon examination he seems to have defied what Google said they did to prevent it as the phrase appears no where on the homepage… Read More
