Mahalo
Oh, we're so playing along with Jason Calacanis' guessing game. The Sequoia-backed internet entrepreneur, who is working on a Wikipedia-style search engine, has put out so many clues about his future plans that it's hard to tell information from disinformation. This morning we received, from an anonymous tipster, a screenshot of a prototype that looked rough, but vaguely plausible. But, even if Kokua was once a working name, it has been superseded. One person involved in the site, with whom we've spoken, says the planned name, last month, at least, was Mahalo. The word, one that Calacanis likes, means "thank you" in Hawaiian, the language from which Wikipedia was derived. The name also appeared in a list of angel investments posted on Mark Pincus' blog, before being removed. This could be yet more fog... yadda, yadda, yadda.