Congrats to our tech team on launching our new profile pages based on Cassandra. Many folks are confused by what we are doing with Mahalo and frankly that's been my goal in the early years of the service: hide what we're really doing. :-)
However, you can't hide the success of top 200 site so I might as well come clean. Human-powered search is just a term I used to describe our first product, which was curated links. Our big picture goal is to build the largest knowledge repository in the world, with the largest base of contributors in the world. A bigger and better Wikipedia with Yahoo Answers and Delicious/StumbleUpon/Google search built into it.
It's a crazy, big ambitious project and we're ahead of schedule! Right now I would say we are 60% done, which means in 2-3 years Mahalo.com will be a top 25 site. We're super excited with the progress to date.
Here is a brief overview of how it is going and what exactly we're making:
1. We are building great reference-style content like Wikipedia, About or Engadget (Topic pages if you will, like www.mahalo.com/ipad )
2. We are attaching that content to a vibrant Questions and Answers forum ( http://www.mahalo.com/answers/tag/ipad )
3. We have a virtual currency call Mahalo Dollars that makes working in these two areas like Farmville for Content Creators. See our upcoming store attached!
4. We now have profile pages like Facebook that allow you to track you and your friends activity in the system. http://www.mahalo.com/member/jasoncalacanis
5. We are tracking what questions and content you are good are answering and creating. Just like Vark and Quora do.
The service is really starting to come together... thanks for all the feedback and support!
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