My Mahalo Experience

Finally, I'm writing about Mahalo. I think it is the only platform that I like and dislike a bit at the same time. The only way for me to describe this is - to write the good things that I found in Mahalo alongside the bad. There won't be anything ugly though, in fact Mahalo has one of the prettiest interface I've seen around the net.

The Good:

• Huge data-base of just about everything you need to find. Since most of it edited by humans, you can be sure you'll get clean, free-spam results. Another good thing is that someone has already filtered them for you, so you most likely to find exactly what you need.
  
• Good sharing options, with one click you can send favorite links from the site to your friends via email or directly to some of the social networks.
• Mahalo Daily Show - Gotta love it! There are few shows on the web today that can make you watch them all the way through. The Mahalo Daily Show is definitely one of them. Veronica Belmont is doing a terrific job there, naturally.
• I liked the Mahalo social page that's gotten even better now with the multi-profiles feature. It is like having a mini browser inside your Mahalo page - Although, Mahalo still needs to figure out how to make this connection good for Mahalo. Another thing, not all my links works there (flickr, pownce, stumbleupon) but if they did, I might make it my start page, (a tab for personal blogs will be great as well).
• Mahalo Follow - When you perform a search in any search engine, Mahalo Follow will open automatically and suggest more relevant links to your search. That's pretty cool.
  
• Did I mention they have an amazing design?

The Bad, that's not so bad:

• I've downloaded Mahalo Follow, but that was an issue for me since I've already have more than one toolbar. In my opinion, Mahalo needs to give the user an easier way to publish stories (this is if they want more people to submit stuff to the site) I'm suggesting they release a simple bookmarklet for this. I guess this is my lucky day because Jason Calacanis just announced in Pownce that they releasing new version of Mahalo MultiShare for Firefox, allowing easy link sharing at Mahalo and other social services, (not sure if they had another version before, never saw it - anyway, great for me).
• I was searching info about my dog race, of course I found lots of information but I was amazed to see that I couldn't save my search anywhere in Mahalo! (Maybe a good thing would be to add a favorites tab inside the social page where users can save favorite searches.)
  
• What can I do with my friends there...? I can't even send them personal messages. BTW us, I'm hearing from everywhere lately that startups don't want to compete Facebook and assuming if we have all our friends in one place, we don't need another site that behave like a network. I say, "wrong." I simply don't have the same friends in every platform I use, I would like to be able to create some connections with users in Mahalo.
  
• The last thing that was annoying for me was the search terms when submitting something to the site, but I guess it is improving the search later anyway...

Bottom-line, I think this site is here to stay for a long time, and will improve (I see lots of updates all the time - Good for them). I'm going to start using the site more and will update my review after a while. Overall, I didn't use the site much so maybe I'm missing some stuff.