Black Friday becomes Blacker!

By Laforge129 | Nov 28, 2008

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There aren’t a lot of details yet, but news sources are saying that in Palm Desert, California, two people died after a shooting inside a Toys R Us. One story suggests that the shooting was the result of an altercation between two teenage girls. Apparently, a boy, listed as a juvenile, was responsible for the shooting and was detained.

[Via Gizmodo]

According to Gizmodo, two people are dead and I’ve looked at KMIR News 6 and There is no more information. I do not like this years black friday it seems like Recession is hitting people harder than people thought!! Not much else is known but this is going to be the worst Black Friday for a while. I don’t think there has been any thing like this before.

Today everyone is doing there homework! Links to Election Day Results

By Paul | Nov 4, 2008

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Yep, You see it just like I do. People are studying to vote. People have been doing this from the time they went to school. It never fails the day before. To see who wins the election you might check out these links:

Election Day through Associate Press Results
MSNBC Results Widget
AOL Election Toolbar
NYT SMS Results
iDashboards

Now I won’t tell you who to vote for but I will tell you that today we will be making History in more ways then one. Whoever we pick will be historic, a black president or a Lady VP. You decide go Vote and Here are some links to find out where you can vote at:

Google Voting Info
CNN Voter Hotline

These should help you go and vote. Now go and vote and remember to think about who you will vote for.

Mahalo Lay’s off around 10% of it’s workforce!!

By Paul | Oct 22, 2008

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In an email he sent to the readers of his publication, Jason Calicanis talks about having to lay off around 10% of people from Mahalo. Here’s the quote:

We’ve laid off a just under 10% of our full-time staff, cut our overhead by doing smart things like renting desks (we have six desks/offices available fyi), and reorganized our editorial department to focus on freelance positions over in-house editors. The net result
of the effort is we are giving Mahalo another year of “dry powder” (or runway) to complete our mission.

This is not to be unexpected after all the talk about the recession coming our way. It does however emphasizes the need for companies to consider there profit margins and accounting strategy.

Mahalo was launched in May 2007 as an Alpha test. That is to say only a select number of people were able to access the site and create feedback to the development of the site. As of January of 2008 it is in what we call the Beta test phase. Which means more people are testing it out and find out it’s flaws to report back about where they need to improve. Mahalo’s directory employs human editors to review websites and search engine results.