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Calacanis Takes A Bite Of Ramen's Crowdfunding Site

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No, Jason Calacanis , the Santa Monica angel investor, and CEO and founder of Mahalo , isn''t bootstrapping a new company and reverting to the hungry''s entrepreneur diet. ramen software crowdfunding finance project development jason calacanis mahalo launch conference' The size of the investment round was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Mahalo Takes On Questions and Answers

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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. 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.

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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. MySpace said that beginning today, publishers on the site can create a profile and control what messages they would like to insert into their activity stream.

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

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Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. On our judging panel, we had Scott Sangster (Tech Coast Angels), Tyler Crowley (Mahalo), Pamela Coker (Daggerboard), Rick Citron (Citron & Deutsch Law Firm), and Dan Dato (Up.StartLA). GiftMunk.co. Lloyd Script.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services. Time will tell.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever. The bare bones of FreedomSpeaks is online advocacy as a service. It was a pain. Jason Kiesel: Yes. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0

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How to Save MySpace

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They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. MySpace should not require a login to get into the site, and I DON’T want to see my profile when I do log in. This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo.