The Slakinski Log

The Mahalo Daily Team just did a vid on one of my favorite subjects - Sailing!

More:

• How to Sail
• Sailing

As seen in the below video Mahalo now supports the Wiki Auto-Discovery button. Which is a button that indicates to you quickly and easily that you can also contribute to this page!

Have some fun this summer with these great How Tos from the How To team over at Mahalo this week! Enjoy over the summer with friends and family

How to Make Spring Rolls
How to Make Bread Pudding
How to Make a White Russian
How to Make a Sex on the Beach
How to Make a Long Island Iced Tea
How to Make Potato Salad
How to Make Egg Salad
How to Make Iced Coffee

We are hiring once again at Mahalo! We are looking for that person that can help us scale as our usage keeps going up, up, and up, especially compared to those other guys! So if your looking a new gig then I’d urge you to read Jason’s post “Systems Engineer, Los
Angeles” to get the full job description.

Chris Finke sent around an email this morning stating that Mahalo Share is now a recommended Firefox add-on! If you haven’t tried Mahalo Share, or don’t know what it does, here is a description ripped from the Mozilla site.

Share and recommend Web pages across many different services; recommend a link once and have it automatically posted to any of Twitter, del.icio.us, MySpace, Ma.gnolia, Jaiku, your Tumblr blog, Facebook, Pownce, StumbleUpon, Mahalo, Faves, or Google Bookmarks. Press Ctrl+Shift+S (or Apple+Shift+S) to share the page you’re viewing. (There is a toolbar button as well.) Then, fill out the form that pops up and check the services that you want to post to. Mahalo Share will automatically post your link to all of your services. If the services you are posting to go down (as Twitter often does), Share will save the link it was sending and try again later. When this happens, an icon will appear in the status bar to notify you. As of version 1.3, you can store your account passwords with Mahalo so that you can use Mahalo Share on more than one computer without retyping all of your account information. Just click the checkbox titled “Link my login data with my Mahalo account” in the Mahalo Share options dialog.

Update: garthk on twitter asks: @rays, what are Mahalo Share’s benefits or hazards vs Shareaholic?

So Chris Finke gave the following answer:

• benefits: it auto-submits to each service, without you having to take further action for each one
• shareaholic just opens the submit window for each service, pre-filled
• drawbacks: doesn’t have as many services, doesn’t give you statistical information like shareaholic does

Mahalo Daily released this yesterday:

But what made it truly great was when I woke up this morning they released a directors commentary for it

Today I posted a message in the Google Group for Mahalo Development that talked about a new set of tools for 3rd party developers.

Along with Mahalo Social we deployed a new Special page to handle feeds for that data. We are providing them in Atom, RSS2 and JSON formats (we just added JSON a couple of days ago)

import simplejson, urllib2
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.mahalo.com/Special:Feeds?group=people
                            &un=rslakinski&action=links&type=json');
data = f.read()
links = simplejson.loads(data)
del(data)
if len(links) > 0:
    for link in links:
        print 'Title: %s' % link['linktitle']
        print ‘Description: %s’ % link['linkdescription']
        print ‘URL: %s’ % link['linkurl']
        print ‘Submitted On: %s\r\n’ % link['linkpub_date']

Great job Veronica and everyone else on the Mahalo Daily Team!

So Jason over at SDF1.net got us moved over to Dreamhost from his dedicated DSL line and off of MoveableType and onto Wordpress Which is great because I’ve been dying to try some of the cool plugins that Chris Miller put together for Mahalo. They are currently unreleased, but I’m sure once we get through the testing we will make them available for all to play with.

Now I just need a nicer template since I lost the really nice one I had that Sean Jackson did (also from Mahalo) for me a few years ago Any volunteers?