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My friends over at Mahalo (*) are looking for a Senior Engineer. Here’s the details:
Wanted: Senior Engineer
Do you fit the bill? If not, do you know someone who does? Feel free to email me (chris@mahalo.com) to learn more or send a CV.
Mahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital [...]

Well over a year ago, I found myself leaving Netscape (now become Propeller) to look for new opportunities. Today, I find myself in a similar situation.
After a lot of thought and tough conversation, Kristin and I have decided to head back to New York. This certainly wasn’t the way we wanted things to play out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jason has a big announcement about our new features today on his blog and there’s a nice discussion going on over on this FriendFeed thread. Thomas Hawk, for example, made this Thomas Hawk page on Mahalo. We helped him fix the capitalization of his last name and I added the picture for him, but he [...]

Mark Jeffrey, Mahalo’s CTO, just posted this position on his blog:
Mahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital (the world’s #1 venture firm), Newscorp, CBS, Elon Musk (Paypal founder), Mark Cuban and others. This kind of opportunity is **extremely rare** in LA: these high-profile rewards are usually found only in [...]

…and still find time to arrange some flowers!
We’ve got some great new How Tos at Mahalo. Here’s a nice sampling of recent additions:
How to Poach Chicken
How to Make Spring Rolls
How to Make a Toga
How to Make Friends Online
How to Make Bread Pudding
How to Buy a Timeshare
How to Make a White Russian
How to Write a Check
How [...]

Mahalo’s developers have put together a Mahalo module using Yahoo’s new SearchMonkey (*) platform, and Julia put together a nice how to explaining it here: How to Use Mahalo-Enhanced Yahoo Search. You don’t have to download anything to add Mahalo to your Yahoo results, you just have to be logged in to your Yahoo! account, [...]

We’re hiring freelance, work-from-home writers at $10 an hour for Mahalo. If you’re interested, send me an email at ck at mahalo dot com
Here’s the details:

Mahalo (*) is looking for $10 an hour freelance, work-from-home writers to help us build excellent search result pages. Candidates must be excellent writers capable of writing perfect copy at [...]

We announced our new co-host of Mahalo Daily today:

I give away the actual winner after the break.

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

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We’re following all the Super Tuesday Results as they roll in and updating all of our pages on each of the candidates live. Make sure you watch the Super Tuesday Results (*) page where you can see all the updates at a glance. Mahalo News Team FTW!!! Check it out!
Related:
Election 2008 (*) | 2008 [...]