Posts Tagged with ‘mahalo’

Are you familiar with Robert Scoble? Once a “tech evangelist” and uber-popular blogger (Scobleizer) backed by Redmond, he (along with his spouse) is now pulling strings at PodTech, a video podcast startup. He’s a big voice in the Valley. Lots of people listen when he speaks. Problem is, he can be kind of, well, irrational on occasion, and in the tech space, such a characteristic isn’t a very good one to have. Not good, at least, to showcase to a [...]

AuditoriumA.com is a human guided search service that guides people through their queries via a striking visual platform. The service uses intuitive site visualizations to guide users to quality cultural events, performances, speeches, articles, documentaries and other subjects. Founder Tony Mars sent us a private preview of version 2.0, and we thought you would be interested in this striking service. Tony has also provided Profy readers with a special invitation to try out auditoriumA via this exclusive link. 
Search Philosophy
AuditoriumA connects busy professionals and Web novices with some [...]

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the possibility of a labor union for bloggers. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal found that there is a "coalition of left-wing bloggers" trying to form a labor union with hopes that such a group will aid them in the process of receiving health benefits and conducting collective bargaining.
The biggest concern and cause for the "union talk" is probably best described by David Krug who writes that "one [...]

Are you unsatisfied with the results that a Google search turns up? Are too many of the links irrelevant or not at all useful? Well, if so, there is a new social search engine aiming to provide you with a new way to search. Sure there are Mahalo and Aftervote, but now there is iRazoo, which goes one step further… with prizes.
This new social search engine, developed by four Houston entrepreneurs and launched today, is claiming to be the ?world?s [...]

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine. Currently they have over 4,000 of the top English search phrases mapped with their own pages, and by the end of the year they hope to have 10,000. It’s a five year project, and this is only their fifth month. With Mahalo you are guaranteed to never run into any spam and to only get quality results, since each page is written by actual people and not algorithms.
The Guides, or page writers, also help [...]