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Mahalo's Calacanis Offers $500K For Twitter Spot

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Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the human-powered search engine run by Jason Calacanis, is in the spotlight again, this time for putting a price on being a top Twitter user. According to Mahalo head Calacanis, he is offering the micro blogging service $500,000, to have Mahalo's new Answers service featured as a "suggested user" for three years.

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MySpace, Ad.ly Link On In-Stream Advertising

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The deal comes shortly after Twitter said it would not be allowing other companies to automatically insert ads into its service, which looked to most direclty impact Ad.ly. squarely into a multi-way intersection of who's who in Southern California's blog and technology world. According to MySpace, it will use Ad.ly

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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provides online service to compile and compare plans and rates across multiple monthly services. PriceGrabber.com is an online comparison shopping service. He blogs here and tweets here. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., It filed for an IPO on August 6th.

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How to Save MySpace

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The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures. This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an amazing service that that enables the exchange of micro payments for any variety of activity. Fuel Micro Jobs.

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

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That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

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