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My Mahalo launched today.  It’s an additional service on top of Mahalo, which allow you to see search for things and have the results come back ordered first by your friends’ recommendations, then your trusted Mahalo advisors.  To make this easy for Mahalo users, you can import your social graph from other sites into your Mahalo account.

I think this is a good step forward for Mahalo, and something that we think is important.  The convergence of social graph and search is going to be an important theme as social networks continue to become more ubiquitous, something that all of us at Circos are very excited about.

I’m down in San Diego today and tomorrow for the O’Reilly Graphing Social Patterns conference. We just finished the morning sessions, and the content has been impressive so far. Charlene Li’s keynote on the Future of Social Networks touched on where she sees things headed long term — think 5 years from now. She mentioned social networks will be like air, and you’ll come to expect your social graph info to follow and assist you wherever you go.

My favorite session so far has been on the Stanford class that taught Facebook App building. They estimate that collectively the class’s apps generated over $500K in revenue (and that’s the low end of their estimates). The stats are impressive.