Offers Tesla Model S
Calacanis talks about his offer to give one of the first Model S’s to someone who can get his handle, @Auto, to the top user spot on Twitter, in a stunt to raise publicity about Mahalo:
I am a huge fan of electric cars, I am a huge opponent of our Middle East policy…Tesla are the only company with an electric car on the road in production
Intruders TV interview
Calacanis talks about how Peter Rojas pioneered live-blogging at Engadget, and says Mahalo is effectively applying the technique to the rest of the world:
SES San Jose interview
Calacanis talks with John Mulligan of SEO-PR about how iPhone users have dissonance between the fact that their device does what it does perfectly, but is limited in its functions, and has hurdles in the way of experimental apps and migration to other mobile networks:
The iPhone is the greatest consumer device ever made. I think we can all agree on that. It is the Holy Grail of computing right now. It’s got a beautiful form factor, it’s fast now that they’ve got the new processor in it, and it’s just wonderful to use with the multi-touch and whatnot — however, I think that it is locked down like a cell phone or a mobile phone, but it’s acting like a computer. That’s creating some dissonance for me, and, I know, some other users.
LaunchConference interview
Calacanis is interviewed at the start of the conference and talks about his new venture:
I only know about 30% of what I’m doing, but it will be somewhere in the news and information space
FOWA London interview
Calacanis talks at the Future Of Web Apps event about his experience with Silicon Alley Reporter, Netscape, Sequoia, and others, saying that he had many great experiences but also difficulties along the way:
That’s how I became a great CEO, thanks to all the hardships
Wants to run Twitter, YouTube, and more
For the Pando Daily CEO Supper Club, Calacanis talks to Sarah Lacy about the tech companies he wants to run:
Twitter I think is going to be more valuable than Facebook… I think [Facebook] is a very faddy trend.
He says the filling out the social graph offers no rewards, and is useless.
Shiny Media interview
Jason Calacanis talks about Mahalo.com, his online rivals including Nick Denton of Gawker Media, and a new announcement about the human powered search engine:
Suicide drone test
The unmanned aircraft is tested in military drills near the Strait of Hormuz. It can carry out 360-degree imaging and is designed to strike air, ground and naval targets. An Iranian military official calls it a ‘mobile bomb’ while media refer to it using the name Yasir.
Advice for Microsoft
Calacanis talks about how Yammer founder David Sacks could be Microsoft’s Marissa Mayer:
Dyn interview
Calacanis and Dyn CEO Hitchcock talk about the Launch Conference, and a contest Dyn is throwing to send a New England startup to the event.
Jihad against pay-to-demonstrate
Calacanis talks with Mary Kathleen Flynn of The Deal about how Open Angel solves the problem of paying to demonstrate:
Pretty simply we’re destroying the other events…those people I’m on a jihad against, I’m destroying them
He says charging $5,000 to demonstrate is a scam and that people who charge are preying on the desperateness of entrepreneurs.
Ask Palpatine
The Sith emperor interviews Calacanis about Mahalo.com. Calacanis:
This battle station is not fully operational yet, so excuse the sneakers and whatnot in the background
Carpool interview
Llewellyn, formerly of Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, and Fully Charged, interviews Calacanis while giving him a lift to work. Calacanis about why he lives in San Francisco:
I fell in love with the city, and fell in love with the women. That’s about the only reason anyone would leave New York, the greatest city in the world – for a woman.
Talks about Tumblr acquisition
Calacanis explains the numbers behind Yahoo’s acquisition:
It turns out, there’s a lot of money in the world. The money is bored. Money wants to be spent! Money is intended to be gambled. These are big numbers, but these are big companies.
TWiST – Tinder etiquette
Calacanis, Sarver, and Hoover talk on This Week In Startups about etiquette on the dating app. Calacanis:
Are you on the Tinder with all those other kids?
Hoover:
I had my first Tinder date, like, a month ago
Calacanis:
You really went on a Tinder date. What’s that like?
Hoover:
It was normal. She was fine.
Dark career moments
Calacanis talks with Lacy about how his career has been driven by his father’s failed efforts at entrepreneurship as a bar and restaurant owner and how he has felt the need to prove something to his parents:
I think I was also proving it to myself
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Neil Patel interview
Calacanis and Patel talk about issues like spam, the search engine optimization (SEO) philosophy as a whole and its problematic frictions between publishers and users in the battle for visibility and search relevance, and his search company, Mahalo.com:
[Mahalo.com] is sort of a search engine but of course there’s no engine, the engine is people…and it’s not all of a content company so you can’t call it Wikipedia…what it’s best described as is somewhere between Wikipedia and Google or Yahoo
Calacanis, Kawasaki at Startup2Startup
Calacanis and Kawasaki debate whether or not Apple is evil and is becoming Big Brother among platforms and startups:
Investment strategy
Sarah Lacy talks with Calacanis about how he managed to succeed as an acquired taste despite being fairly abrasive, and his investment strategy going forward:
The internet’s environmental crisis
Calacanis talks at Gnomedex about how the pollution of the internet by spammers is creating an environmental crisis:
The internet was synonymous with good things, and intelligence, and freedom, and now it’s synonymous with spamming, and phishing, and I think we’ve let this happen a little bit, and we’ve been complacent