Comments on: Andrew Baron has a hate-on for Mahalo

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:34:14 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Drew — those are fair points. And thanks for taking my comments in the spirit in which they were meant.

I just thought it was odd that you were so worked up about Mahalo, because you seemed like such a nice guy when we met. But then Jason does seem to have that effect on people :-)

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:34:57 +0000

True, I think Jason is destructive to lots of people and organizations which is why I dont care for him, but to the point about Mahalo which continues to be overlooked in all the noise, I think its a flawed product.

Its only purpose is to make money for Jason.

And now, the reason why Im interested, is simply because he is using videoblogging as a marketing tool.

Its very interesting to me personally to see a videoblog that is created to be an advertisement.

Thus, #1, the videoblog will likely be informed by marketing decisions and #2, it may be difficult because the kinds of people who watch videoblogging right now, tend to be the kind of audience that would now show interest in about.com-like sites.

Business-wise, if the video is designed as an ad to drive traffic to Mahalo, Mahalo may spend more bandwidth and production costs on the video then they will make from a click through. They may need to put ads on the vido ads.

Cheers, Drew

By: Sameer

Sameer — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:31:44 +0000

“He effectively accuses Jason of perpetrating a gigantic con, in which he pretends to set up a site to help people find search results, but in reality just wants to get them to click on his ads.”

Let’s give users and Mahalo some credit here. “Fool me once, shame on you…”.