Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community

Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by what on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:35PM (#1455791)

How can they afford to pay 50+ people $1000/month. Do they really pull in that much from advertising?

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by jasonmcalacanis on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:55PM (#1456110)

Significantly more.

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by slouch on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:38PM (#1455801)

www.mahalo.com/type-anything-here

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by alttab on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:41PM (#1455815)

http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo-is-a-trap

Looks like they are willing to pay me to make that page. I may take them up on it.

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by blizkreeg on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @02:46PM (#1455844)

I get that they're making good money by embedding ads in every inch of the site. Is this really a 'good' and respectable business model though? Something about it doesn't sit well with me, especially when the site doesn't offer quality content to the user.

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by hvs on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:43PM (#1456045)

That's your conscience speaking. The fact that it bothers you is a good thing.

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by OmarIsmail on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:52PM (#1456090)

Things aren't always so cut and dry. There's probably some people - a large number in fact - that does derive benefit from some of Mahalo's pages. You also have the fact that the revenue generated by Mahalo is going towards paying people which lets them live and feed themselves, etc.

In terms of the grand scheme of things, what Mahalo is doing isn't that "bad".

It's also not the ideal case either. As a savvy web user a Mahalo page is one of the last pages I'd want to visit, but I'm also savvy enough to know how to avoid it.

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by jasonmcalacanis on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:57PM (#1456119)

Suggest taking a look at these pages, which get a lot of traffic, that people stay on for a long time and that provide a lot of value:

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-guitar-chords http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-strawberry-shortcake http://www.mahalo.com/star-wars-the-force-unleashed-walkthro...

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Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community by OmarIsmail on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @04:39PM (#1456234)

I don't doubt that there are diamonds in the rough. However, when I search and see a random Mahalo page in Google I have no way to know if this is one of the diamonds, or one of the thousands of "rough". Why take that chance when I can go to a more reliable site that I trust more?

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