Talk:Jason Calacanis/Archives/2012

Early Life
There is a lot about his childhood and his relationships with his father in his appearance eon the Adam Carolla Podcast (4/14/09) (under name Calcanis). Sorry not a regular, don't know if this can help or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by We4get1918 (talk • contribs) 12:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

The Big Game
I'm pretty sure he was on week two of the Pokerstars show The Big Game (see ). Does that belong in here somewhere? BrandonMintern (talk) 13:53, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Mahalo
Information about the Mahalo startup should be added to this article, along with citations to reliable sources. If or when that startup gains enough news coverage to satisfy WP:CORP, that can be split into a separate article. Any editors who work for Mahalo or Calacanis should refrain from editing these articles directly. Please use the talk page and let a neutral editor decide how to incorporate the material. Jehochman Talk 09:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Criticisms of Him and The SEO World?
There was a lot of drama between him and the SEO world, which resulted in him getting shown up pretty bad by Neil Patel. Is there any reason this stuff is not included? Or is there some order saying this information should not be placed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.11.165.17 (talk) 03:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Protected
The page is now protected for 7 days. During this time, please try and find common ground and arrive to a version that all can live with. If you cannot, this is a good time to pursue dispute resolution such as third opinions or requests for comments. If you are ready to resume editing or to contest the protection, place a request at WP:RFPP. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 02:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Conflict with the SEO Community
I don't have a problem with a section about this being included, as long as it isn't given undue weight. I think the section should be reinserted, but the comment about an outcry from the respectable SEO community should be removed unless there are better sources. I would normally think that the link to Patel's blog should be removed as well, but since it's also linked to directly from the second Calacanis link, it's probably ok. After having taken more time to look at this, my removal of the entire section did appear to be unnecessary. I saw some random removals, some false edit summaries, and that the section was being sourced only by 6 blog links. --Onorem♠Dil 14:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Doing justice to the contrarian
Now I don't purport to be an expert Calacanis-watcher. But I think I've seen enough to say he's widely viewed to be a bit of a contrarian (to put it nicely) when commenting on tech. I'm not saying it's good or bad. Personally I enjoy hearing his counter-intuitive assessments of tech phenomena and his reality checks in the face of techie hype, though I don't agree extremely often.

Could we find some good sources that mention this reputation (if I'm not wrong about it)? And how about some examples of statements that've gone against perceived wisdom? Hard to remember lots off the top of my head but the iPad hoax is a nice example, and I'd say launching Mahalo in itself was a bit of a contrarian move. The whole idea is in defiance of the Google doctrine that algorithms can meet every need (even he framed it as such in this interview).

So what say? Can we write a well-sourced section that clues the reader into his style as a commentator? Because obviously I'm too lazy to do it myself right now. Well, perhaps if I had more links. How about we start there? If you can refer to a good quote or source, drop it here. --Qwerty0 (talk) 05:07, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, here we go. Here's one I ran across just now, in a Wired article about a $890,000 grant to Wikipedia to develop a simplified edit page:

"Any amount of money thrown at it is not going to solve the problems," said Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo. "Putting up a WYSIWYG editor will cost like $50,000. It’s not that big of a deal."

-Wikipedia’s WYSIWYG Dilemma
 * --Qwerty0 (talk) 13:14, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Neutrality tag
The POV tag's been up since January 2010, yet I see no explicit discussion of the article's neutrality. Is it time to remove that tag? Or start writing "Calacanis claims" everywhere? Discuss, please. --Lexein (talk) 21:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I removed the POV tag. Feel free to restore it, any of you, if you provide a list here of what's wrong. This is a BLP.  We should fix problems, not just tag them. Jehochman Talk 13:59, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Do not see why subject is notable or article neutral? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.80.78.197 (talk) 20:14, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Childhood
To my mind starting biography from 26 y.o. is not correct. There were some citations about his early years. Those should be included to complete the picture of a man standing. If one wants to hear only a success story without origins and motives that is a bias and it does not allow to investigate human nature that stands behind human actions. To my mind Calcanis bears signs of selfadoration. I do not know whether it is bad or good, and I'm not sure whether I'm right. But I would like to know that. Anyone can find his pre 26 y.o. story? -- Afalse (talk • contribs) 15:45, 22 June 2010 (UTC)