Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. Mahalo is venture backed by Burda Digital Ventures, CBS, News Corp., Calacanis said that the moves were due to a "challenging economic environment." READ MORE

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers. Mahalo is a human powered search engine which uses a team of editors to cull the web for information on the most popular search topics. and Sequoia Capital. READ MORE

Percival was most recently at Docstoc, where he was Content Manager, and has also previously headed up social media and search engine marketing at Mahalo. Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the online media startup headed by former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said today that it has hired on Sean Percival as Director of Content at the firm.

We also have a limited number of Barcamp LA shirts this year, so early helpers will get first dibs on their shirts. :-) If you’d like to lend a hand, Please meet us at Mahalo / Causecast HQ, 902 Colorado Ave. Howdy Campers and Camperettes! Santa Monica, CA 90401 , Saturday Morning, at 9am! Cant wait to see y’all there!!

Mixergy Interviews Events Etc Upcoming About Contact About The Quick Summary Mixergy is where the ambitious learn from a mix of experienced mentors. Hi, I’m Andrew Warner. In my 20s, I used credit cards and ingenuity to create a $30+ mil / year (in sales) internet business with my younger brother. So here goes. It was fun. So I had to move on.

Mixergy Interviews Events Etc Upcoming About Contact How Blogs Helped The Four Hour Work Week Become a Best Seller – The Timothy Ferriss Interview Posted on Oct 21, 2008 - 4:00 PM PST The full program This is an audio program. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Here’s why.

think that’s an example of the power of being “internet famous.&# I walked with him through a tech party and in a web company’s office, and in both places I saw people drop what they were doing to look at Scoble. So when I interviewed him, I asked Scoble how to become internet famous. Here’s what Robert did some time ago.

Mixergy Interviews Events Etc Upcoming About Contact How To Develop Intuitive User Experience – The Eric Stephens Interview Posted on Aug 12, 2008 - 6:51 PM PST The full program This is an audio program. He uses them at Mahalo , where he’s the Director of User Experience and at BeerMenus.com , a site he co-founded.

Mixergy Interviews Events Etc Upcoming About Contact 7 Essential Tools of Viral Marketing – The Hiten Shah Interview Posted on Sep 5, 2008 - 5:38 AM PST The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Imagine having your site spread online like a benevolent virus. Beat me!

He also started investing in companies like Tesla Motors, Mahalo, and Intent.com. What would you do if you built a tremendously successful internet company and sold it? interviewed Ryan Scott to find out what he did after he sold Netcreations, the email list management company that he co-founded. Curious about how Netcreations was built?