Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 According to an email from Calacanis to his private email list, "Essentially what we're doing is making a bigger and better Wikipedia with a revenue-sharing model." Among other changes, the site's home page now features a prominent "ask any question" box, links to Mahalo Answers and How To pages, as well as ways to search and browse topics on the site. of the firm's web site. The new version of the site is looking to combine search, content, and Q&A.

High profile entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, CEO of Los Angeles-based Mahalo , emailed an impassioned note to his mailing list Thursday, which he also posted to his personal blog, detailing how one of the firm's employees has just been sentenced to 48 months in jail for computer hacking. Calacanis said that Mahalo has a "rigorous" hiring process, but that the firm failed to do a "simple Google search" which would have revealed the fact that Schiefer had been convicted of hacking. According to the FBI indictment, the employee, John Scheifer, infected 250,000 computers with malware to create a "botnet"--a network of hacked computers used to steal account data.

Alex revealed the news in an email to friends today: Tags: People alexmiller calacanis exits mahal ‘ This Week In Startups ‘ (TWiST) producer and Kevin Rose body double , Alex Miller is leaving Los Angeles to join Yext , an online yellow pages. The new startup is based in New York City and from what I’m told that is somewhere far far away from gorgeous Southern California.

Alex revealed the news in an email to friends today: Tags: People alexmiller calacanis exits mahal ‘ This Week In Startups ‘ (TWiST) producer and Kevin Rose body double , Alex Miller is leaving Los Angeles to join Yext , an online yellow pages. The new startup is based in New York City and from what I’m told that is somewhere far far away from gorgeous Southern California.

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is continuing his crusade against angel groups and others who charge startups to pitch their groups, saying that he's now calling on groups to stop charging fees, and post what fees they were charging to entrepreneurs on their web sites. In an email to his own private (but extensive) distribution list, Calacanis said "There is no circumstance where an angel investing group should charge a startup to pitch." ...Tags: Calacanis--who launched his campaign earlier this week, targeting angel group the Keiretsu Forum --has now expanded his list of target angel groups to not only Keiretsu, but also Westlake Village-based Maverick Angels , PrivateEquityForums.com , Los Angeles-based iHollywoodForum's Tech Supper Club , and Angels Den UK .

interviewed Ryan Scott to find out what he did after he sold Netcreations, the email list management company that he co-founded. (Curious 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? I

For example, his order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses, etc, and the second page tells them the price and asks for the order. I’m going to send you an email, and you just have to click an activate button.  So, Andrew: You know and that explains a lot of the website that I see out there where When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com

We’ve put an email into the production company for more information. Now that his  startup Mahalo has gone user-gen, Jason has A LOT more time on his hands. Jason could bring contestants into the boardroom and task them with finding a groomer for his bulldogs, using nothing but Twitter AND   Mahalo Answers! As reported by Variety ,  a Twitter-themed television show is now under development. It’s being described as “putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.”

Mark helped launch 4 startups, including SuperSig, which was a disaster and Mahalo , a rising star. His followup venture was SuperSig, a service that let users personalize their emails’ signatures. Today he’s working on his latest startup as the CTO of Mahalo. I asked Mark Jeffrey for an interview because I knew he’d be open with me about the periods in entrepreneurship when things fall apart and you feel like there’s no way out. Network by evangelizing

We had an above the fold “email to a friend” form. Enter your email.”  Thank you Mark Jeffrey, CTO of Mahalo & author of The Max Quick Series for helping to put this together! ...Tags: This is the story of two brothers who took on the established entertainment industry, succeeded for a while — and then almost went out of business when the dot com market crashed. And it’s the story of how they rebuilt their business and became one of the most celebrated digital entertainment studios.