Mahalo – the ‘human powered search engine’ founded by Jason Calacanis – has launched a new ‘liveblog’ system that delivers one line summaries of breaking world news.

Visit the site (http://www.mahalo.com) and on the right-hand side you’ll see a list of subject lines listed in highlighted categories (e.g. Showbiz, Politics, etc) such as ‘PolitiFact.com challenges McCain’s Ayers ad’ with a link to the external site hosting the relevant story.

According to TechCrunch, Mahalo employs 100 full-time editors to work on Mahalo’s 100,000+ guide pages; it has employed just 4-8 full time staff working around the clock on the liveblog. In a fun twist, the company also has a liveblog section where you can watch Mahalo’s livebloggers in action and even ask them questions as they work.

Mahalo plans to have a Ustream feed for each liveblog news category, and may also allow others to syndicate the liveblog news stories in the future.

Source: Mark Hendrickson, “Mahalo Sets Out To Liveblog The World”, TechCrunch, October 10, 2008

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