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What does everyone think about Google Knol (*)? Jason talked about it on his email list this week and mentioned that Mahalo is republishing some of our How To articles and Video Game Walkthroughs on Google’s Knol. I’ve put a list of them after the break.
What do you think? It’s pretty interesting the way they’ve [...]

Matt is going all out with live streaming video today promoting his latest book Brave Men Run. He’s posted details about the promotion plan here.
I just bought a copy. Matt, I expect you to autograph it, buddy.

You can now add FriendFeed to Your Mahalo Profile. What’s FriendFeed (*), you ask? It’s the place to have meaningful online conversations.
Begin side rant: The place to have meaningful online conversations used to be Twitter (*), but since Twitter is never up anymore and doesn’t have threaded comments, the discussion is starting to die [...]

Big announcement coming up tomorrow as Mahalo chooses the next host of Mahalo.
Here’s what the celebrities at the Guys Choice Awards by Spike TV had to say:

Here’s the two finalists’ (Andrea Rene (*) and Leah D’Emilio (*)) viral videos:
Girl Trains for Guitar Hero

and
Touch My Body Parody Video

Chris Anderson (*) from Wired and author of The Long Tail and the upcoming Free! came by Mahalo HQ today and talked to us about the economy of free. Very interesting.
Here’s Part One of the talk:
Broadcast by Ustream.TV
And here’s part two:
Live Videos provided by Ustream.TV

So if you’ve done all the fun stuff, like install Installer.app on your iPhone, you can now record video on it. The video tends to look and sound like this:

Bad news: the app found here isn’t freeware, so you’ll have to spend some $$$ on it if you want to keep using it. Also, the [...]

Feel free to call and leave me a message. If it is interesting, I may post it here, build it into part of a podcast, or remix it with the new NIN album.
Do you use GrandCentral?

FrameByFrame is a freeware stop-motion app for OS X. I just used it to quickly make this very small test movie:
stopmotiontest.mov
Here it is embedded. Click to play: Had to cut it b/c it was crashing people’s FF3.
The little bit of music here is from NIN’s new freely downloadable album, the slip. The entire album is [...]

Valleywag had a ridiculous post called 10 Things Twitter Users Should Not Do that ended up popping up several times today on the NewsGang feeds, which I read regularly. All of the post’s advice is horribly, horribly wrong. There is no should not do.
Here’s what you should do and why:
1. Follow as many people [...]

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 (*) [...]

I missed this feature release, but noticed it today. Thanks to @JoeManna for pointing me to this blog post on the Flickr Blog from April 22nd announcing Share This!:

Our new “Share this” button makes it a whole lot easier to share your photos, video, sets and groups. You can click the button and start typing [...]

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 [...]

I sketched this guy last night before bed. I have no idea what he’s supposed to be. I started with the wide open mouth, then the eyes, the nostrils, then drew his general shape, the bed, then the room and lastly the arms. Name him and tell me his story either by sending me a [...]

TechCrunch pointed out that Encyclopedia Britannica Online is allowing web publishers to sign up for free one-year accounts and share the content with their readers via a new program called Britannica Webshare. Well, dear readers, I myself signed up for the service and was accepted. When I signed up, I thought that this would be [...]

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 [...]

Andrew Keen (*) was at Mahalo HQ today to talk about his book Cult of the Amateur and what he thinks of Mahalo and what we’re doing. It was an interesting discussion, which you can watch right here (fast forward until about 45 minutes in as we set up the video early and ended up [...]

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This is pretty interesting. PicApp lets you embed Getty Images and other normally copyrighted (and therefore unusable by bloggers) images directly into your blog posts like the above picture of Madonna. Whoa.
[via GigaOm]
ps—What is Madonna pointing at and why? *raises eyebrow*

I decided to do something different with my podcast this week. Since this blog has for a long time had the tag line “Samplings from the World Wide Web,” I thought I’d actually *sample* some audio from various videos I came across this week. Thanks to Veronica Yanco, Lon Harris, and Sean Percival for bringing [...]

Steve Rubel has an interesting post about digital curation up on Micro Persuasion. I’ve been thinking something similar since I came across Kevin Kelly’s The Bottom is Not Enough earlier this week.
Rubel mentions how Mahalo is doing digital curation, and he’s right. That makes me and my entire team digital curators. Of course, I’ve been [...]

If you’ve ever watched a Godard film, you’ll enjoy today’s Mahalo Daily on How To Speak French (*):

YouTube: How To Speak French
Related: How to Speak French (*), Valentine’s Day (*), French (*), Jean-Luc Godard (*), How to Learn Basic Phrases in Any Language (*)