thanks for point it out. i was cross posting my delicious to facebook and it was adding the mahalo flower. we've sinced removed the flower replacing it with a thumbnail of the site we're bookmarking. i agree the flower was over the top/obnoxious. we've corrected this for everyone using Mahalo Share. When is this screen shot from anyway??! because we fixed this weeks ago. all the best, jason at mahalo.com
Had trouble reading the picture (no option to resize, or am I just a ditz?) and I have no idea who Jason Calacanis is, and thus, would have absolutely no reason to add him to my facebook. Dugg down.
How does does something that is completely uninteresting and unreadable get over 70 diggs so far and reach the front page? Plus how does that incoherent babbling from "jdawg" get dugg up (as of now)?
I don't know WHAT THE ***** this is about. Why are there god damn ASSHOLES driving up diggs on inane ***** lately? Ruins my morning. :( (it's morning in norway)
Quote from Jason:
"we fixed that. i was sending my delicious feeds through and the flower was getting obnoxious. i've stopped sending my delicious feed to Facebook all the time and we've replaced the flower with a screen grab
thanks for pointing it out... it is obnoxious i agree. "
The guy flat out admits he's using this stuff to promote himself and his company. Why would you expect anything less? Apparently a lot of people bought into the idea he's somehow more important than the millions of other people on the Internet. Just another spammer.
What an absolute ***** waste of our time. I can't help but think this is orchestrated by whoever these losers are to hype this *****-wrangling butt-punching sack-tickler's profile. BURY.
FYI: If you want to know who he is you can suffer thru a This Week in Tech with him on the panel. He is one of the worst guests on that show. Full of himself and contributes nothing but self promotion for his sub par services.
also, this is a two week old screen shot of an issue that was resolved in some beta software. really dude.
also, Facebook has this really advanced new feature: unfriend. also, facebook allows you turn off individual content types or people... i know it's crazy. please RT(f)M before wasting everyone's time with an image that you can;t even read!
also, fairly obvious you made the image tiny so folks could not read that they were actually interesting bookmarks... thus the reason i have 5,000 folks on facebook following me. many folks like getting interesting links (check: digg).
Side topic from the Calacanis bashing - but this is a good point to realize about Facebook and popular people in general. I added Keith Ellison (congress), and constantly see him adding friends in my updates. Can't wait for personalized preferences that say "I want to see who my friends are adding as friends, except in the case of these X popular people."
Mahalo.com is a great site, if you're interested in a subject join the http://greenhouse.mahalo.com and make some easy money doing something you enjoy. Hell do enough and I bet Jason will throw you a Macbook Pro. That's just the type of guy he is. He is from NY and is a successful entrepreneur gangster! Listen to him on some of the TWiT podcasts. He's hilarious and very clever.
Good job on gaming Digg, Jason. LOL. (I don't think it was his intent but I wouldn't put it past him ;) )
To those about this article's relevancy: This is more of a gossip piece on a Silicon Valley celebrity than hard fact news. However, Digg *can* be used to SHARE things that you DIG! So in conclusion: I'm a Calacanis fanboy and I agree that if the article is true then you should add him on Pownce(if you haven't been there in the last 2 months you need to check it out. I was a hater at first) and Twitter instead of Facebook. If you are a tech entrepreneur then you will find it interesting in reading the comments of a rich serial entrepreneur who keeps himself very accessible.