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Jason Calacanis spent billions of dollars on socially engineering a social bookmarking experiment, only to discover that his paid socialites were bookmarking a single page on Gizmodo.com over and over again.
The failure of this project really took its toll on Calacanis. Jason started showing up for work in full ringleader regalia, and AOL executives started to become a bit concerned. When paying for links didn’t work, he started paying people NOT to link - and that effort, too, failed miserably.
It was then that Calacanis turned his attention to the anti-social demographic. Enlisting help from the Asociation of Shy Superbloggers - or ASS for short - Weblogs Inc. was able to launch The Stalker Blog, The Serial Killer Blog, and Whoretexx (a blog for psychotic hookers).
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Mobile Phone Fan » Blog Archive » Chris Pirillo
July 20th, 2006
at 4:23pm
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Chris Pirillo
July 20th, 2006
at 6:03pm
[IMG The Calacanis Circus] Jason Calacanis spent billions of dollars on socially engineering a social bookmarking experiment, only to discover that his paid socialites were bookmarking a single page on Gizmodo.com over and over again.
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection
July 20th, 2006
at 7:20pm
[IMG The Calacanis Circus] Photo courtesy of blaugh All the internet is abuzz this morning with the latest post by Netscape Chief Jason Calacanis offering to pay the top 20 users of a number of social networking sites $12,000 a year to join and contribute to Netscape’s newest
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection
July 20th, 2006
at 7:20pm
[IMG The Calacanis Circus] Photo courtesy of blaugh All the internet is abuzz this morning with the latest post by Netscape Chief Jason Calacanis offering to pay the top 20 users of a number of social networking sites $12,000 a year to join and contribute to Netscape’s newest
Jason Calacanis ofrece 1,000 dólares mensuales » Un blog con floggera
July 20th, 2006
at 10:40pm
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devlon duthie » Blog Archive » A thousand peanuts for your soul
July 22nd, 2006
at 10:52am
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Digital Impulses: Too Good: Jason Calcanis lampooned by BLaugh!
July 23rd, 2006
at 3:07pm
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Satiriske illustrationer til din blog » ProBlog.dk » At blogge - din guide til blogging og blog-værktøjer
July 26th, 2006
at 7:43am
[...] Jason Calacanis har skabt en del opmærksomhed med hans relancering af netscape.com - en digg.com klon (sådan da) - da han annoncerede at han ville betale nogle af de mest aktive brugere, for at gøre det de hele tiden har gjort. Indførslen af monetært incitament til sociale bogmærker var ikke letfordøjelig kost for alle. [...]
CalacANUS.com » Blog Archive » $6.25 an Hour
July 26th, 2006
at 2:20pm
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tysonhy.com
July 27th, 2006
at 10:38pm
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Lockergnome’s DIY
July 28th, 2006
at 11:15pm
[IMG The Calacanis Circus] Jason Calacanis spent billions of dollars on socially engineering a social bookmarking experiment, only to discover that his paid socialites were bookmarking a single page on Gizmodo.com over and over again.
the.co.ils » Blog Archive » רשימת ×”× ×‘×—×¨×™×? - 12
July 30th, 2006
at 2:22am
[...] הסיפור ×”×—×? ב-Blogosphere השבוע הו×? לל×? ספק המשכו של הסיפור שכתבתי עליו ×›×?ן בשבוע שעבר על Netscape ו- Digg. תקציר ×”×?ירועי×?: [...]
Mondo Dynamo
August 2nd, 2006
at 2:45am
Calacanis sucks! Seriously, this guy is turning what used to be an honest community into a money grabbing whore fest!
Blogebrity Tags: Jason Calacanis
August 7th, 2006
at 10:19am
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Blogebrity Tags: Flickr
September 21st, 2006
at 7:14am
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Virtual Economics: Online advertising
January 28th, 2007
at 6:54am
[...] Jason Calcanis runs the new Netscape-as-Digg-clone. It hasn’t been doing very well - Mike Arrington commented recently that it "has absolutely failed to impact Digg growth at all". Quite. A few days ago, Jason therefore offered to pay the top sixty-or-so people (Enfact) who actually post all the Diggs to defect to Netscape $1,000 a month, each, to defect to Netscape. This has created some controversy (Blaugh), which Jason addresses today at his blog. Possibly he misrepresented the initial criticisms of his innovation - it doesn’t really matter. His idea is sound - it’s good for Netscape, good for the social web and good for anyone who wants to find relevant news. Markets evolve; entrepreneurs assess the value of resources and make competing bids for those resources. The entrepreneur who thinks they can get the greatest benefit from that resource gets the use of that resource. The owner of that resource maximises their benefit. That’s just how markets work.Until Jason made his offer, the market rate for the 60-odd Diggers who powered the site appeared to be £0. This palpably failed to reflect the value of their input - Digg’s value is a function of the editing these people contribute, and Digg makes money. Add competition to the news-tagging field, in the shape of Netscape, and suddenly you have a market and people competing for the valuable services of this handful of most prolific taggers. It’s a Good Thing, on two levels. First, more and better news taggers should emerge now that there’s money to be made from the skill, which benefits everyone (except the owners of Digg, of course). Second, now there’s a commercial value attached to Digging, the market should naturally evolve so that the Netscape Diggers who find the most popular stories enjoy the greatest rewards. This means that rather than Digging whatever happens to suit their interests and agenda (and who knows what possibly sinister motives or obsessions drove 60 people to submit hundreds of stories a week for nothing?) the main Diggers will enjoy a clear incentive to find, and relevantly tag, stories of the greatest use to the greatest number. So…good news all round. Let’s hope that even if the top Diggers don’t take up Jason’s offer he’ll still get take-up from other competent and motivated news editors. We’ll all benefit. Because that’s just how markets work. [...]
Peanuts auf F!XMBR
March 6th, 2007
at 1:29am
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Cat
June 30th, 2008
at 11:12am
Ha Ha Ha
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