A couple of thoughts on today’s news that Jason Calacanis employed John Schiefer, at Mahalo (or more accurately, that he didn’t fire him when he found out about his past). For those who don’t know, before he worked at Mahalo Schiefer got caught up in creating a botnet that was late...

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, the world's largest compendium of rewritten Google search results, claims he hired a computer hacker because he never bothered to Google him. Now his employee is headed to jail. In a mass email, Calacanis wrote that he and Mahalo's CTO, Mark Jeffrey, were ignorant...

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, has some good advice to CEOs who are struggling to keep their start ups afloat.  Rather than keeping a blog, he sends a weekly-ish newsletter - sign up here to get his updates.  I have included his latest post below.  As reference, he is also offering to come i...

Download audio file (geekcast52.mp3) Episode 52 of the Cast of Geeks was a complete failure. We had a rowdy 90 minutes of good content, and I realized at the end that I never started recording it. Then we recorded a quick 5 minute recap of the show that was never recorded. Fail, part deux. Only my v...

newVideoPlayer("/ahston_jasondiss_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Internet hustler Jason Calacanis might be Twitter friends with Ashton Kutcher and Kutcher's wife Demi Moore, but the Brooklyn native will still slam the celebrities for harassing two homebuilders. "Celebrities have a lot of free time," Cal...

It’s not the best of times for Kings. From Wall Street titans like Dick Fuld to Main Street titans like Howard Schultz the future looks difficult. Even the kings of the blogging world are beginning to whine. On the same day that Mike Arrington announced a vacation from blogging and blamed othe...

Every once in awhile I'll get a g-talk message from A Mother in Israel. She'll say something like, "Shouldn't you be asleep?" You have to love that. She's up because she's 8 hours ahead. And she knows what time it is in Chicago. So I was about to do that, go to sleep at a proper hour. The fish tank ...

One of the biggest secrets about the Sundance Film Festival is the quality of its documentaries — and though Robert Redford and crew try hard to highlight the exquisite non-fiction section of their yearly independent library, the doc categories are often overshadowed by the bigger, more access...

Gawker operative Stephen Kosloff has sent us another batch of photos from the frozen film wonderland that is the Sundance Film Festival. Now with product-placing bunnies. The party for the documentary, A Sealed Fate? contained the following ingredients: Director and America's Next Top Model host Nig...

Many of us out there struggle as new entrepreneurs trying to figure out the best way to manage a product launch.  As a single person who developed a web product it was hard to figure our the best practices and how to leverage tools to gain the most traction for the product and its launch. So I want...