At Mahalo we’ve been talking about our How To articles recently, the “How to Get a Car Loan” page for example is an amazing resource that performs very well. I’ve done some how to articles just here on my personal blog and I’m always amazing how well they perform, and of course monetize. If you are doing any type of content creation and not doing How To articles you are really missing out.

Now what is it going to take to get a loan for the above ride?

You may have already read over on Jason’s blog that Mahalo is looking for a great system engineer in los angeles. As our traffic keeps growing its more and more important we have the right people behind it, manning the systems and keeping everything running smoothly.

Here is the job description:

Please send your deets to jason at mahalo.com and cc mark at mahalo.com with the subject line “I kick ass“

Systems Engineer, Los Angeles
Mahalo.com, Inc. is a new human-powered social search service backed by Sequoia Capital (the world’s #1 venture firm), Newscorp, CBS, Elon Musk (Paypal founder), and others. This kind of opportunity is extremely rare in LA: these high-profile rewards are usually found only in Silicon Valley.

We’re looking for a seasoned Systems Engineer. You should be expert in massively scalable architectures, how MySQL and Linux interact, how MySQL and memcache interact, sharding, replication (including multiple
master replication) and how to tune MySQL based on various schemas for maximum performance and availability. You are a HANDS ON implementor, a get-it-done kind of developer. The right person is a self starter with the “general get it factor”. You work well with a team of like-minded engineers, and have a genuine desire for excellence.

You should be expert with:
Applications: PHP 5.x, MySQL 5.x, memcache 1.2.x
Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, Unicast and Multicast socket programming
Scripting languages: Unix shell scripting
Other languages: Applicants with C, Java, and Objective-C experience preferred
Bonus: Hadoop / HBase, Lucene, Nutch, Spread

As a bonus, if you can help find the right person we are offering a $1000 bonus and tickets to the upcoming TechCrunch50 event (a $2000 value). We have a great team at Mahalo is there someone out there up for the task?

Now that Grand Theft Auto IV has been released seems like people are already very eager to cheat! Can’t say I blame them, in a game were carnage is king its fun to take it up a few notches. So head on over to the Mahalo page for Grand Theft Auto 4 Cheats to get started. Have to say my favorite cheat is probably the one for invincibility.

Happy Cheating!

One of the more anticipated games of this year decade, Grand Theft Auto 4 is getting released on Tuesday. At Mahalo we plan to pickup the game at midnight Monday night and immediately tear into it. One fun thing about being at a place like Mahalo is Jason pretty much gives us free will to experiment with new ideas for the content. Back when Super Smash Bros was released I came up with the idea to setup a Ustream Channel and stream some live game play. This turned out to be a huge success, we saw waves of people come into the chat and participating with the content. Feeding links into the chat with an RSS to IRC script also proved to be a very valuable way from driving qualified traffic to Mahalo.

So naturally we plan to do the same this time around, check out the GTA4 Live Stream page or the below embeds on April 29, 2008 (12 AM - 8 AM).

While we all wait to get our hands on this delicous carnage take a look at some of the current pages from the Grand Theft Auto 4 Category:

Related Posts:

• Grand Theft Auto IV bittorrent download
• GTA4 Explosion of Walkthroughs, Leaks, Cheats, etc.
• Leaked GTA4 Videos

LOST finally starts again tonight, I must say its one of the very few shows I’m following these days. For those who just can’t wait until tonight check out the Mahalo page for Lost Season 4 Spoilers. Full of show recaps and various rumors from the internets this page is a great resource. We have people watch this show live and update the page in real time so be sure to check again after tonight.

WHAT!

At Mahalo we just rolled out rolled out Microformats for relevant search result pages. So what does this mean, and what are Microformats? Well, they are data classes that help machines and people identify and export information. Data such as contacts and address information is much easier to manage, search engines can also better catalog the info. Yes a little bit of the semantic web of tomorrow….today!

Getting Started:

1. Firefox users can download the Operator plugin to get instant Microformats support.

2. Visit the Paris Hotels page on Mahalo

3. Notice the Operator plugin in the top left of the below image. Every hotel featured on the page is now available for quick and easy export. You also get a few other nice features like quick access to mapping websites. Get the data you need and drop it into your address book and phone with a few clicks.

So obviously this type of feature can only apply to certain types of information. However for data it can be used with there is a lot of potential. Microformats has yet to see it’s “tipping point” like RSS but Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 9 have been rumored to be including native support. Now we need to really figure out what other types of data to map and how to make it even easier for our users. More info to “follow” on this soon.

Special thanks to Tantek who took the time to come by the Mahalo HQ and share Microformats with the staff.

More discussion at: Mashable, Jason and C.K.

One of the final Mahalo Dailys staring Veronica Belmont and boy is it a good one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcaPQ-f1eE

Guest Stars:
Kevin Rose
Jason Calacanis
Tay Zonday
and 3 of my horribly bad 70s shirts

At the recent Techcrunch Popsugar event I had a chance to talk with PerkettPR about Mahalo. Thanks to Jeff Glasson and the crew for taking to the time to stop by our table and upload the video.

Watch the Interview:

PerkettPR Interviews Sean Percival from Mahalo from PerkettPR on Vimeo.

April 20th is upon us, yes 420 or “national weed day“. Did you know High Times has a podcast? They do!

Other related Mahalo Pages:

• Happy 420
• National Weed Day
• 420 MySpace Comments
• Cookies (for after you celebrate)

The Mahalo Vlog Idol contest kicked off today at Mahalo HQ, sadly I wasn’t able to attend due to this death flu I came down with recently. Thanks however to the wonderful power of the internets, I was able to watch most of it online via our UStream channel. Looks like there was a great turnout and some really strong contestants. After watching the auditions, and getting to know a little bit more about some of them I’m going to pony up and endorse my favorites.

Lisa Brewster
http://www.sophistechate.com/

Lisa for one is smart as shit and just an overall interesting girl. Into photography, technology and whole mess of other various interests. She has basically zero experience podcasting/vloging but is a natural in front of the camera. When we talked about our next host internally we kept coming back to getting an unknown talent and helping her develop. I can’t help but think Lisa fits this bill perfectly. Oh and she beyond nailed it by researching the topic ahead of time, I don’t think any other contestant even thought of this! Of course using Mahalo’s Pinkberry page was a nice touch :).

Sarah Atwood
http://sarahatwood.wordpress.com/

I actually first heard about Sarah through Valleywag of all places. After some digging around its clear Sarah has a lot of geek cred. She has a lot of experience with video/lifecasting and has even done her own streaming of the process via seesmic. Has great hair and just seems like she would be really enjoyable and easy to work with.

Best of luck to everyone who made it to round two! Sunday they are taking the contestants to the 3rd St Promonade in Santa Monica for some “man on the street” interviews. Stay tuned to Mahalo Daily, the team is going to be showing clips from the contest through out the week.

*Update:

LAist has a nice video with 3 of the top contestants including my two picks! Bonny is great as well.