Thanks for the comment. I appreciate the response. I think were talking about what really is a fine line here between spamming / marketing / sharing.

1) Posting links using Mahalo Follow actually works really well. If you want to post an interesting link to multiple places, it is a great tool. (I tried out the toolbar for this post). I’m assuming most of your posts are done this way b/c I follow you on Tumblr too, and the same links are in there.

2) There’s nothing wrong with you posting links all day long in Facebook, and their News Feed algorithm deciding they are important enough to show me. But, most of your links are to Mahalo, as opposed to the stories themselves, which feels like marketing Mahalo first, providing an interesting link second. Granted, the point of Mahalo is to aggregate numerous authoritative links around a topic. So, fair enough.

3) The Mahalo logo definitely feels like marketing. A screenshot about the story would be better, and in most cases its probably an option since Facebook lets you choose the best image for the link and on most Mahalo results pages there is an image relevant to the page. (http://www.mahalo.com/Edison_Chen_Sex_Photos)

At any rate, thanks for the comment. And I know you’ve set a high bar for “quality” vs. “spam” in everything you’ve said in the past on your blog and at conferences. Glad pointing out your domination of my Facebook news feed page brought to light these issues for you.

Chris

1. We’re replacing the mahalo icon with the screen grab of the bookmark. So, if I bookmark a story on engadget or a product on Amazon you’re gonna see that screen shot–not the mahalo flower.

2. I’m not using Facebook at my bookmarking service any more! The reason this all happened was because I was using our Mahalo Share tool (google it) and it puts my delicious bookmarks on Facebook. I didn’t think it would put so many of my bookmarks on other people’s pages. So, I’m going to limit it to my best 2-3 bookmarks a day.,

Thanks for the feedback!

I think folks need to pace themselves and put in quality stuff. I know i’ve been putting in quality stuff, but I also think it’s too much. I though Facebook managed this better in building people’s feeds frankly.

all the best j