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Mahalo Employee Goes To Jail For Botnet Hacking

socalTECH

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.

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Registration Form Design with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Authentication

SoCal CTO

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). They tell you the other option is to provide your email and password.

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Calacanis Plans Competitor To TechCrunch

socalTECH

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. In an email to subscribers of his personal mailing list earlier this week, Calacanis said the event will be held in San Francisco on February 23rd and 24th.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

He blogs here and tweets here. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. ,

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SMCLA: Google Analytics Recap and Video

Tech Zulu Event

The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. Where they go wrong is focusing on the goal behaviors such as “collect an email” or “add an item to the shopping cart” all the way to “spend $10.00 Below is a highlight video of the evening. to buy my eBook”.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

There’s a fast growing group of tech companies including: Docstoc , Demand Media , BetterWorks , GoodReads , Mahalo , Beachmint , Campus Explorer , DECA , eHarmony , GumGum , Savings , Shoedazzle , Business.com , FamilyFinds , Affordit , Bestcovery , JibJab , CoLoft and many more.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Both Sides of the Table

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few.

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