LA Hadoop Meetup – My good friend Mark Jeffrey’s company, Mahalo , typically hosts these events. LA Web Application Developers – I have not been to this event yet, but all the top techs that I know speak very highly of it. Tags: Technology Web Startup Advice CTO internet startup los angeles marketing networking startup army tech networking technology networkin My friend Mark Long recently asked me about networking in Los Angeles. Mark is a CTO, see, and his company, PortBlue , was recently acquired (congrats, Mark!).

SMCLA ( Social Media Club Los Angeles ) will be hosted tonight at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica. Pictures and videos from newsworthy events make it to the web via mobile phones and hand held devices and first hand accounts are micro blogged in 140 characters or less before any traditional news outlet is able to cover the story. Mahalo Office 902 They have invited a writer from the LA Times, an editor from LAist, and a partner from Real Poiltech to discuss  ”Citizen Journalism: Social Media’s Affect on How News is Reported and Consumed”. This panel

Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 of the firm's web site. 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. Tags: The new version of the site is looking to combine search, content, and Q&A. 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."

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. The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. The new Q&A service is the mysterious "Project A" which Calacanis was drumming up beta testers for earlier this month.

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12.     Mark Jeffrey - CTO, Mahalo Why Why listen: Julia shows you how thinking like marketers helped the founders of MySpace build one of the most successful web businesses in history. ...Tags: 1.     Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public.

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. Tags: jason calacanis mahalo angel group keiretsu maverick angel 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 .

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

web site has been murdered by Google! 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.”

When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. Are you at Mahalo’s offices? Interviewee: Yes, we’re in Mahalo’s offices today. I know that Mahalo lends – not lends – they rent office space to entrepreneurs like you. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical about it. For example, his order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses,