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Calacanis Plans Competitor To TechCrunch

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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. The new publication would not be a stretch for Calacanis--who, like Arrington, made his own fortune by selling his last company, blog network Weblogs, Inc.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Story Crawler

Daradiction

One of the benefits of networking for me has been connecting with so much talent, and the icing on the cake is being able to beta some of these bleeding edge products before they hit the market, giving me a competitive advantage. Mahalo (Mark Jeffrey and the gang are super cool and I dig that they made a custom page for me, ha!).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Huddle allows users to maintain an interconnected network of secure online workspaces for file sharing, ideation, project management and virtual meetings. If you want the easy version you can read that story here ! Founded in 2007.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. We met first through Tyler Crowley at Mahalo, and I invited Jason to speak at MOTM.

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