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Our How To category over at Mahalo is becoming a great resource and I’d love to hear what other people think of it.
We have a wide range of topics covered. I would have loved access to our financial how to articles back when I was in college. Wondering how to get a car loan? What [...]

Mahalo is looking for a Systems Engineer, Los Angeles. It’s a great team. If you’re looking to do something great online, you’re a coding ninja, and you’re in LA, you should apply for this:
Systems Engineer, Los Angeles
Mahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital (the world’s #1 venture firm), Newscorp, [...]

We now have all the missions complete on our

Last night, I was watching Eliot Phillips play GTA4 on my PS3. He was just going through all the missions one at a time and we didn’t see the money tally or anything like that and he was having trouble finding weapons, so I was starting to think that they had stripped the game of [...]

If you’re getting GTA 4, make sure you bookmark Grand Theft Auto 4 Walkthrough. The full walkthrough is being built live and should be done by tonight at midnight (but beware that the live stream is already at the last group of missions, so spoilers abound if you dare to click over and watch the [...]

Mahalo’s Video Game Team is going crazy covering everything Grand Theft Auto IV. Here’s everything they’re finding on the GTAIV missions:
Grand Theft Auto 4 Missions (*) | Grand Theft Auto 4 Bull in a China Shop (*) | Grand Theft Auto 4 Easy Fare (*) | Grand Theft Auto 4 Easy as Can Be (*) [...]

Jason announced this yesterday and posted about it today and Sean Percival also blogged the good news, as did Mashable: Mahalo has begun adding Microformats (*) to our pages!
You can see this in action on some of our travel pages, like Paris Hotels (*). If you install Operator for Firefox, you’ll see the following on [...]

Eliot mentioned Fluid to me the other day, and then yesterday, it popped up in my regular feed reading. Fluid is a SSB, or single-site browser:

Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop [...]

The new Iron Man Demo is available for free download from Xbox Live. This game is looking way cooler than any movie to video game I’ve seen:

Check it out.

So one of the big stories this week has been about Thomas Beatie (*) who is the Pregnant Man on Oprah (*). When I first saw the story pop up on Mahalo last week, I thought it was a whole Junior scenario where they were actually able to make a male pregnant. That’s not the [...]

Here’s Mahalo’s pages on April Fools’ Day (*) and on April Fools Day Office Pranks (*).
“Hey everyone! Let’s totally ruin the internet for a day and make it un-trustable as a resource just to pull stupid pranks that no one finds funny!”
Oh, also, in case you missed it, we got an interview with Steve [...]

Following up on the fun that was our Best Evil Robots (*) page, the Mahalo team has built a new page: Best Fictional Brands (*). I contributed the Lost brands section:

Now things get very bizarre in the current season of Lost, when we discover that the arch-rival company of the Hanso Foundation, Widmore Corporation has [...]

We have a list up at Mahalo that I contributed to: Best Evil Robots. My pick was Bicentennial Man:

Director Chris Columbus must be a sick, depraved individual to have thought: “Hey, I think I’ll follow up on Mrs. Doubtfire (*) with a sequel of sorts. Except instead of a cross-dressing man invading the privacy of [...]

Our Video Game team is live streaming Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Gameplay Videos (*). You can log in to Ustream (here’s our room on Ustream) and chat live with our Guides (We’d like to keep the chat open, but someone keeps hacking into the room and flooding it with bot messages if we turn off [...]

Today’s Mahalo Daily features Super Smash Bros. Brawl in all it’s glory:

Better than that, today’s Mahalo Daily features the debut of Mark Burnham on a Mahalo Daily! Mark and Evan D are our two key video game team members and as you can really see in this video they’re doing a lot of content creation [...]

… first as a freelance blogger, then as Managing Editor of Netscape, and now as Editorial Director of Mahalo, I can say that Duncan Riley’s post about Jason (which I’m not going to bother linking to, b/c I avoid linking to garbage online) on TechCrunch is *totally* out of line.
I normally don’t weigh in [...]

Mahalo is live covering the Oscars: Oscar Live Coverage (*) and we also have a page on Oscar Red Carpet Live Coverage (*). Come check it out and weigh in with your Oscar Predictions (*) on our message board.
Update: Oscars in 60 Seconds:

Can’t wait for Gears of War 2 (*). Especially after seeing the Gears of War 2 Trailer (*). It’s just a teaser, but it got me excited for the game. Lots of other cool things coming out of Game Developers Conference 2008 (*). I also am eager to get my hands on Spore (*).

Miss the Grammys? Here’s the Grammy Winners and the entire show in 60 seconds:

We’re live-blogging the Grammy’s over at Mahalo’s Grammy 2008 Live Coverage page. If you want a more condensed view, you can check out our Grammy Winners 2008 (*) page. As soon as performances start making their way online, you’ll be able to find them here: 2008 Grammy Performances (*).
Follow more of the pages our Music [...]