That's a great how to article. Our mission at Mahalo, since not everyone here has spent 20 minutes having coffee with me (yet) is the following: "to help people find information they can trust."
We are testing different ways of doing this including:
1. hand crafter search results with content
2. a knowledge exchange (Mahalo Answers)
3. how to articles
4. (coming april 10th)
5. (coming September 15th)
The real goal of Mahalo is to build a service that combines the three most important services on the internet: content, search and knowledge exchange.
This page has nice wikipedia/About.com style content on the left, search results and Q&A on the right.
If a normal person (i.e. not a ycombinator/Techcrunch50/Scoble type) comes to a page like this they have a really nice spam-free experience.
We know this because we actually have a lab at Mahalo where we study human behavior on the web. If any of you would like to see this here is a video from before we launched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoehBwTAH5Y
In these studies we found that folks LOVES our model.
I like that service - I've used Mahalo several times - and generally the idea of aggregation is one that I think can serve a better purpose. However, I've noticed that Mahalo has been shifting farther and farther away from its original beautiful aesthetic. Now your pages look crammed rather than pleasing.
We are testing different ways of doing this including:
1. hand crafter search results with content 2. a knowledge exchange (Mahalo Answers) 3. how to articles 4. (coming april 10th) 5. (coming September 15th)
The real goal of Mahalo is to build a service that combines the three most important services on the internet: content, search and knowledge exchange.
For an example of this look at our bob dylan page: http://www.mahalo.com/bob_dylan
This page has nice wikipedia/About.com style content on the left, search results and Q&A on the right.
If a normal person (i.e. not a ycombinator/Techcrunch50/Scoble type) comes to a page like this they have a really nice spam-free experience.
We know this because we actually have a lab at Mahalo where we study human behavior on the web. If any of you would like to see this here is a video from before we launched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoehBwTAH5Y
In these studies we found that folks LOVES our model.