Comments on: Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:44:00 +0000

So their TOS, dont allow to republish content, right?

But wikipedia should be free content with no copyright.

By: Krystyne

Krystyne — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:05:15 +0000

Jason Calacanis is now stealing content from Mahalo’s own writers! Jason is going to take all of the pages away from page managers and now those people get nothing for all their hard work. He has even changed Mahalo’s Terms of Service from “you own your content” to “All the content you write and submit to Mahalo . . . becomes the intellectual property of Mahalo.” How evil can one many be!?

By: zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker! | Smackdown!

zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker! | Smackdown! — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:48:23 +0000

[...] In addition to the ones shown here, Google also says that you still have 13,200 pages that you scraped from Wikipedia in their [...]

By: Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then? | Smackdown!

Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then? | Smackdown! — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:49:23 +0000

[...] These Mahalo pages being returned are both examples of the many pages on Mahalo.com that are nothing more than content scraped directly from Wikipedia: [...]

By: Krystyne

Krystyne — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:41:17 +0000

Love your site! I’m so glad someone is exposing Mahalo for what it really is.

By: Are Content Mills the Future of Online Publishing? What Comes Next? | SEO Book.com

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:07:10 +0000

[...] sites, like Mahalo, not only automate their page creation, but the use that automated page to generate automate related question pages as well. The rabbit hole has no bottom! At the other end of the spectrum, we have sites that publish [...]

By: Fred Grott

Fred Grott — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:33:02 +0000

Jason,
You do not even pt the right license for the content you borrow.

Address the effing issue

By: jardenberg kommenterar – 2010-03-12 | jardenberg unedited

jardenberg kommenterar – 2010-03-12 | jardenberg unedited — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:30:14 +0000

[...] Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia | Smackdown! [...]

By: YuppyMa

YuppyMa — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:10 +0000

Scribd.com is doing the same thing.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:19:13 +0000

“@mvandemar

You’re good kid! I was wondering when someone would figure this out!”

Hahhaa. Yay! So, he gets an A plus on the final exam he didn’t even realize he was taking….

You see Michael, it was all a test, a test you didn’t even realize you were in the middle of…and you passed with flying colors.

Btw, is it Humphrey Bogart day at Mahalo. Why does he keep caling you “kid?”