A lot of folks have been telling me their emailing and IMing Mahalo links around the web--especially for things like travel and people like their parents (btw: your parents will love Mahalo). A number of folks asked us why we didn't have social sharing sites like delicious, reddit, Facebook, and Stumbleupon. We thought about that for a second and realized there was no reason why we didn't have those services so we just added them under the "clean URLs."
[ Sidenote: Clean URLs is our project to make the shortest possible URLs for folks who like to type in mahalo.com/SEARCHTERM. I'm one of these odd folks who likes to save a couple of keystrokes. ]
We didn't add Netscape or digg because those sites specialize in news and we thought the communities there might not be interested in sharing curated search results. If we're wrong I'm sure we'll find out when people post our curated results to those services.
1. Jason, I just had what I was was hoping would be a Mahalo moment. I'm looking for a specific travel booking site, run by a college professor, that is supposed to be able to predict if the fares on your trip will go up or down between now and the time you book the tickets. There's so much Google-spam around travel that I couldn't find this on Goog, so I went over to Mahalo. Seems like Mahalo's travel section is more about destinations than about booking?
Interesting to hear that people are coming to Mahalo for travel. Maybe you'd want to add this site, if someone can think of it?
Also, you're right about passing this on to parents. I'm emailing a link to Mom now.
Posted at 8:45AM on Jun 8th 2007 by Chris