If you want to know how to get rich in tech on the strength of other people's ideas, look no further than Jason Calacanis, the web entrepreneur taking the not-so-delicate art of copycatting to its logical, but increasingly bitter, extreme.
Jason Calacanis, the professional email sender and part-time CEO of Mahalo, is a busy man. Fresh from executing layoffs at his fewer-humans-than-before-powered search engine, he's jetting off to Japan. This, mind you, despite promising to cut down on travel as an austerity measure. Brian Alvey, Calacanis's cofounder…
AOL has released numbers detailing the success of Weblogs Inc., its blog network for a reported $25 million. Since taking the company off of Jason Calacanis's and Brian Alvey's hands in 2005, AOL has seen visitor traffic climb 122 percent a year on average, from 1.4 million visitors to 13 million. Revenue went from $6…
Before creating the world's most comprehensive list of videogame cheats, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis worked at AOL under then-CEO Jon Miller. Calacanis joined AOL only after it bought Weblogs Inc. from him for $25 million and since Miller led that acquisition, eventually invested in Mahalo and now sits on the…
Jason Calacanis once told us that he has "all the money." He got it from selling Weblogs Inc. — home of Engadget and Autoblog, among others — to AOL for $25 million. Curious to see what kind of home that kind of money buys in Los Angeles? Check out Kara Swisher's video tour of Calacanis's guest "cottage." Watch out…
Attention, bottom-feeding Gothamites! Weblogs Inc. cofounder Jason Calacanis is eager to bore you to tears over dinner about how great his new venture Mahalo is. (The short version: Remember Yahoo's Web directory from 12 years ago? That's basically Mahalo.) The buntrepreneur is stuffing his bulldog-cute,…
What happens when blogs fail? At AOL's Weblogs Inc., three cancelled health blogs have disappeared entirely — not even on Weblogs' list of retired blogs. [TechCrunch]
Blogs continue to sell — but blog valuations are staying modest. Discovery Communications, the cable-and-online media company, has bought enviro blog TreeHugger for a reported $10 million. With nearly 2 million unique visitors, that means Discovery paid a very modest $5 per "eyeball" — the unpleasant…
The founders of the Weblogs Inc. Network sold their Blogsmith blogging platform to AOL (who bought WIN in 2005) last week, according to founder Jason Calacanis. Sounds like AOL paid $4-5 million. The deal wasn't public until now.
"All anyone sends on the WIN-wide mailing list is, 'Please digg my article.'" So says a member of AOL's blogging arm, Weblogs, Inc.
In the booming Silicon Valley economy, everyone's looking to buy or be bought. But not all offers are equal. How do you politely turn down a lowball without burning your bridge? Let's take a look at three turn-downs — none of which were publicly reported.
Right. I just got around to playing last week's Gillmor Gang tech podcast. It's safe to listen.
Weblogs, Inc. bloggers, this is just a reminder in case you didn't get Engadget editor Ryan Block's memo yesterday. You know, regarding that Engadget vs. Gear Live "please amend your video" incident. An employee was kind enough to pass this on:
So that's how Engadget gets its exclusives! When Engadget managing editor Ryan Block showed up five minutes late to a multi-outlet press event with Microsoft Xbox exec Peter Moore, he must have seen blogger Andru Edwards filming the interview. But when Andru later posted the video on Engadget competitor Gear Live,…
In what's probably a strategic leak from AOL, an employee reported on Jason Calacanis's Dulles and NYC office hours (held last Friday). Jason Calacanis's plans to revive the bloated corpse that is Netscape.com were passed to Valleywag, in vague and glowing terms. So to offset my constant petty mockery of the…
Blog mogul Jason Calacanis, who just joined AOL last year, is already running the company, judging from his upcoming meeting at the beverage coaster company's HQ. From the ambitious exec's blog:
This year, as every year, Brian Alvey of the Weblogs, Inc. Network renewed JohnBattelle.com. UPDATE: Brian Alvey of Weblogs Inc. doesn't still own JohnBattelle.com, but because his WIN partner Jason Calacanis sold it along with the Silicon Alley Reporter, he's been listed as owning the domain ever since the first boom.
AOL's blog network, Weblogs, Inc., jumps into the local-blogging pool with Blogging Ohio. In true Weblogs, Inc. style, the blog sports a massive right column of intra-network links, as well as a mighty footer full of article links. Somewhere between these, the graphic ads, and the text ads, is info you can't find on…
Weblogs, Inc. mogul Jason Calacanis caught up with gossip blogger Perez Hilton at a Sundance party. In a fit of inexplicable pleasure at Perez's humor, the self-proclaimed future CEO of AOL did the professional thing — he blogged it.
