Jason Calacanis, should anyone even care?

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Here's my own personal attack post (although I don't agree with some of the things said about Shoemoney on other threads here.)

Jason Calacanis -- why the hell does anyone care about what he says?

His only claim to fame is having sold Weblogs Inc for $25 million to AOL. Wikipedia lists one other founder plus "an investment" from Mark Cuban. Who knows what Jason's share of that was.. $10 million might be generous. On the low end it could be just a few million. Talk about nothing to be proud about. Sure he has another Web 2.0 startup, but who doesn't?

The only reason anyone even recognizes his name is because he serially trash talks and bashes every web related industry on his blog. I've got no problem with criticism, but his link baiting is painfully obvious and after a few years has gotten old.

I didn't see his keynote or watch the video, and don't care either.
 


I stayed for the whole keynote. I dunno, be brought up some interesting points. He's right about some things, we are polluting our own pond. That much is true. I have mixed opinions on it. Not all affiliates are spammers though, obviously, so his keynote was pretty insulting.

Ultimately he's just trying to promote Mahalo, which is already a failure, so whatever. *yawn*
 
You said it best in Vegas Andrew: the affiliate finds other ways to market when the "merchant" has run out of ideas or resources.

So really, who has the right to call anything spam?

Maybe some douchebag acting like an expert in marketing to get in front of a bunch of affiliates to push his agenda is a spammer too...



I'm getting so sick of experts.
 
nickycakes said:
Oh come on guys, you honestly don't think you're spammers?
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I'm not excluding myself. Spam pays the bills... I'm not excluding myself here. I'm just saying that I understand his point that we're pissing in our own pool.

You can't disagree with the underlying point of his speech. There's a lot of money in spamming, which is why we do it, right or wrong. Some of us care, and some of us don't.

I'm sort of on the line, because while I do a lot of blackhat / grey area stuff, I also don't want to see an internet rampant with garbage in the long run. Am I going to stop doing what I do? Not anytime soon. Got mouths to feed, think we all do.
 
I spam and I can see the argument about polluting the pond. For the last 3 days I've been searching for a particulary obscure thing on the internet and I keep winding up in crappy spammy sites. It sucks.

IMHO... so you're a spammer, at least be big enough to admit you're bringing down the industry and then laugh all the way to the bank.
 
Mmmmmm.....spam....

spam.jpg


....and hotlinks. :D
 
10 mil is a lot of money to most people. I'd be proud to have made that much.
 
I mix it up. Some is spam, some is not. Although my spam can often redirect people to damn decent resutls if the real target isn't relevant ;)
but whatever. Calacanis is a blowhard, and I just don't care what he has to say. And neither does anyone else.
My only hope is that Mahalo succeeds. It's sooo much easier to fool the human eye than a bot. I'll make a lot of cash if it does haha.
 
xmcp123 said:
I mix it up. Some is spam, some is not. Although my spam can often redirect people to damn decent resutls if the real target isn't relevant ;)
but whatever. Calacanis is a blowhard, and I just don't care what he has to say. And neither does anyone else.
My only hope is that Mahalo succeeds. It's sooo much easier to fool the human eye than a bot. I'll make a lot of cash if it does haha.
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Seriously...peer-rated search results? :error:
If it became popular, my ceiling of profits would only be limited by the number of clean IP's I can aquire each day.
 
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