Jason Calacanis thinks so.
I’ve gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of–certainly more than I deserve–and I’ve never had a public relations firm working for me. [source]

Ok, fair enough, and I agree with Jason for the most part. I don’t think that all start ups need PR. What’s pissed me off about Jason’s article is his overall perception of the industry.
You must realize that journalists are constantly getting banged by lazy, clueless PR folks who fire first and don’t understand what the word "aim" even means.

Now, while that can be true, not all of the PR people …read more

In an article posted on Aug 10, the New York Times asked, essentially, if they should be worried about Google turning into a content provider.
They draw comparison to the fact that their own site Knol, ranks it’s Buttermilk Pancake recipe higher than that of the domestic queen, Martha Stewart. (Knol also ranks #4 on Yahoo!)
There seemed to be a lot of bluster back and forth from the Times, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo and a co-chief executive officer from Martha Stewart’s OmniMedia.
“If in fact a Google property is taking money away from Google’s partners, that is a real problem,” …read more

Mahalo Social has expanded to allow you to look at and manage your current social networking and social web applications within their interface. Now I am not big on using Mahalo as a search tool in general, in fact I don’t know that many people that are. This feature though allows you to just log into Mahalo and be able to go through your different social networking profiles without having to log into them separately or leave the site.
The ability for me to go in and check any of my profiles from one source is nice though, I still don’t …read more

The age old question is asked again: How much social networking can we do?
Mahalo takes a step to social networking profile aggregation (I will probably review it sometime next week)
 Is MySpace about to give external link warnings?