Jason Calcanis

ASCAP Seeks Royalties on Embedded YouTube Music Videos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 9, 2009 - 9:59am.
New York - Performing rights organization ASCAP, which represents 350,000 U.S. songwriter and music publishers, has begun to seek royalty payments from websites that embed YouTube (NASD: GOOG) videos containing its members' music, Valleywag reported.

Jason Calcanis Debuts New Search Engine Venture: Mahalo

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 31, 2007 - 3:54pm.

New York - Internet entrepreneur Jason Calcanis, who founded the now-AOL-owned Weblogs, on Thursday debuted his latest venture, the alpha version of a new online search engine called Mahalo. The service uses a team of 40 expert guides who arrange search results based on relevance, placing the primary results in a "top 7" at the top. Users can also contribute to the search engine's effectiveness by submitting relevant links to various search terms. Mahalo currently counts about 4,000 results pages, based on the most popular search terms, and plans to reach 25,000 by the end of 2008, TechCrunch reported.

Weblogs Founder Calcanis Joins Sequoia Capital

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 5, 2006 - 2:53pm.
Chicago - Dot-com veteran Jason Calcanis, the founder of Weblogs Inc. who recently left his position with AOL's Netscape division, announced that he has joined venture capital firm Sequoia Capital as an "entrepreneur in action," TechCrunch.com reported.