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Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health. Prior to Mahalo.com's launch in alpha in May, 2007, he was an "Entrepreneur in Action" at Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firm, a position he held since December 2006.
Jason co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL's Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site.
Prior to forming Weblogs Inc., Jason was the founder of Rising Tide
Studios, a media company that published the magazines Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter. The flagship publication later became Venture Reporter, a venture capital database, and was sold to Dow Jones.
Jason is from Brooklyn, NY and currently resides in Los Angeles and New York with his wife and bulldog. He received a B.A. in psychology from Fordham University. Jason is known for his transparency and insights into the internet and media industries. His views can be read daily on his own blog, www.calacanis.com and heard weekly on "CalacanisCast," a new show on The PodTech Network.
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Cory Booker Transcript from Affiliate Summit East 2008 5 Sep 2008 at 12:34pm
The transcript of the keynote address delivered by Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ, at Affiliate Summit East 2008 in Boston, MA, will be printed in part in issue 3 of FeedFront Magazine.
The speech was delivered on Monday, August 11, 2008. Video is available at http://www.affiliatesummit.tv and...
Photos from Affiliate Summit East 2008 3 Sep 2008 at 1:28pm
The official photos are up now from Affiliate Summit East 2008 on Flickr.
There are more than 150 photos from the day before the conference, and then 350+ from day 1, 500+ from day 2, and 450+ from Day 3.
Feel free to comment on pictures, add tags, and blog any of the pictures.
Thanks to photogr...
Want to Cover Affiliate Summit Social Media in NYC? 1 Sep 2008 at 1:29pm
Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008 is taking place October 5 in New York City, and there are a limited number of passes available for bloggers to cover the event.
This Affiliate Summit is a single day event with a maximum crowd size of 300 people and a focus on using social media in affiliate mar...