Comments on: D5 – scoring the demos – the good, the great, and the ugly http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/ Investments in and Assistance to Emerging Companies Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:14:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: D5 - scoring the demos - the good, the great, and the ugly — Biography. writers and their biography http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-1021 D5 - scoring the demos - the good, the great, and the ugly — Biography. writers and their biography Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:59:59 +0000 http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-1021 [...] click through each of the demos: As expected, Microsoft pitched the new table-based Micr source: D5 - scoring the demos - the good, the great, and the ugly, Great Falls [...] [...] click through each of the demos: As expected, Microsoft pitched the new table-based Micr source: D5 – scoring the demos – the good, the great, and the ugly, Great Falls [...]

]]> By: amit http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-8 amit Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:51:15 +0000 http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-8 In scaling, i of course did not mean the technical challenges but the latter. I find the service to be extremely subjective, i.e. the terms for which pages are created are based on the people entering them. a small example - on the people front - people who are "friends of Jason" already have pages (ted leonsis, Jon miller, even brian alvey...), people who are not - are not ("randy Falco, dick parsons :-). Similiar on companies - Apple & Google are there - AOL is not :-) I am curious to see if this is just early days or it becomes not "all the info that is out there that is fit to display", but rather "All the info that we decide is fit to display"... In scaling, i of course did not mean the technical challenges but the latter.
I find the service to be extremely subjective, i.e. the terms for which pages are created are based on the people entering them. a small example – on the people front – people who are “friends of Jason” already have pages (ted leonsis, Jon miller, even brian alvey…), people who are not – are not (“randy Falco, dick parsons :-) . Similiar on companies – Apple & Google are there – AOL is not :-) I am curious to see if this is just early days or it becomes not “all the info that is out there that is fit to display”, but rather “All the info that we decide is fit to display”…

]]> By: John McKinley http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-7 John McKinley Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:42:48 +0000 http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-7 I think the technical scaling issues of Mahalo are the simple ones. It is not a computationally intense approach, so I see them dealing with those issues in short order. The biggest (and most important) scaling issue relates to the speed of which they create editorial content. The targeted objectives on how many editorial pages they will have by end of year and by end of 2008 are realistic, but it means that they will revert to Google search results for the majority of user inquiries for the next 18+ months. Also, the open issue of how much result "refresh" work that needs to happen, as pages age, is a challenge that about.com (a somewhat similar 1.0 model of editorial search) does a poor job of, and one Mahalo needs to master to succeed. The user input and feedback capabilties Mahalo is creating will certainly help. I think the technical scaling issues of Mahalo are the simple ones. It is not a computationally intense approach, so I see them dealing with those issues in short order.

The biggest (and most important) scaling issue relates to the speed of which they create editorial content. The targeted objectives on how many editorial pages they will have by end of year and by end of 2008 are realistic, but it means that they will revert to Google search results for the majority of user inquiries for the next 18+ months. Also, the open issue of how much result “refresh” work that needs to happen, as pages age, is a challenge that about.com (a somewhat similar 1.0 model of editorial search) does a poor job of, and one Mahalo needs to master to succeed. The user input and feedback capabilties Mahalo is creating will certainly help.

]]> By: amit http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-6 amit Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:06:24 +0000 http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/d5-scoring-the-demos-the-good-the-great-and-the-ugly/#comment-6 what are your thoughts on the scalability of mahalo ? what are your thoughts on the scalability of mahalo ?

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