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Jason Calacanis is the Paris Hilton of the web. Mahalo is not particularly interesting, not particularly evil, he doesn't really do anything, and yet - we keep
by japherwocky 17y ago
Jason Calacanis is the Paris Hilton of the web.
Mahalo is not particularly interesting, not particularly evil, he doesn't really do anything, and yet - we keep talking about him and putting his shit on the front page of hacker news.
It's a mediocre aggregator/linkfarm, with some mechanical turk style incentives for humans to contribute, and a nice chunk of $ in the bank. Just ignore/mock him for another year or two until the funding runs dry.
- mvandemar 17y agoYou are absolutely right, it is mediocre crap. The issue is that through the spam techniques described in the article, he can now gain undeserved top 10 rankings for many phrases using pages that have no business being there. If you are not part of the web development community then these discussions will most likely bore the hell out of you. However, if you are, and if you are aware of how many innocent sites Google bans or penalizes on a daily basis, or AdSense accounts that get canceled with no appeal for offenses much less than his, then this stuff actually matters.