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Finally! A way to migrate my chickenscratch handwriting to the digital world :P - Abbas Haider Ali

If my handwriting wasn't the equivalent of 10yr old zodiac killer font I'd be all over this. - adolfo foronda

Great there was another service like this years ago and they disappeared soon. Wonder what happens to YourFonts now - TrafficBug

It it really great that more and more developers are providing us with specific numbers around different revenue models. I hadn't realized that an app could make 5k a day in ad revenue. And this presumably is from people just checking out the app and not from daily use. - David Clements

I think the whole subject of App Store price models and success strategies is pretty fascinating (I may be a bit of a sad bastard as it goes) - have you checked out the Mobile Orchard site? Very good analysis on these sort of subjects: http://www.mobileorchard.com/ - Patrick Jordan

Yeah mobile orchards stuff is great.... I haven't checked out that PDF yet but intend to. I really want someone to do an analysis of how many apps are still in active development. Currently we have 15k apps on the store but how many are abandoned by developers that realized that Gold rush was over. - David Clements

@ David - you feel like momentum is slowing down then? - Patrick Jordan

I think there is definitely opportunity but it appears that some form of external marketing is becoming more and more necessary. At the beginning it looked like if I cranked out enough, decent apps then I could sustain myself simply by continuing to update my applications. My data is showing a downward trend on this approach. And as such you are either going viral or you are going to converge down to zero. All that being said I am still learning and experimenting. - David Clements

@ David - are you an iPhone dev yourself then? - Patrick Jordan

crapware can only be a flash in the pan, not sustainable. having said that, given th install base, and based on basic laws of numbers, one can make a lot of money in a very short period of time tapping the right demographic. definitely a biz opportunity for advertisers wanting to get a message across in the form of short lived apps or apps with content. - Pascal Bouvier

@ Pascal - I'm not sure whether crapware will be just a flash in the pan. I thought one of the comparisons that the young developer High Gloss made in the link above was a valid one - comparing the App Store to the pop music charts. IMO, there is tons of shite music that hits the top of the charts and makes serious money ... - Patrick Jordan

@Patrick Yeah I am a developer. Both trying the indie thing and contracting for others. - David Clements

@ David - excellent. Any apps you are able to name in here? - Patrick Jordan

I think I saw on twitter he peaked at $200 an hour, and dropped down to $50 an hour. Still pretty good for 20 mins work. ;-) Read the reviews though - it's blowing up people's speakers. - Tim

@Patrick Lots of apps. Chatterbox a paper fortune teller, WristPop Coin Toss, Origami Crane and XMas Tree, SUZU Alarm Clock and Meditation Timer, Thumb Piano and please don't excommunicate me for this one..... IBurp on Your Fart Ahhhhh.... - David Clements

@ David - cool - need to have a look at some of those ... - Patrick Jordan

Yeah please do... Shoot me an email at promo at gidigo dot com and I'll hook you up with whatever you want to check out. - David Clements

Just mailed you David ... - Patrick Jordan

Just sent them to you.... How do you respond so quickly from FF. Is there an email notification? - David Clements

It crashes as soon as I enter correct password. Did anyone get it to work? - andrei_c

Works fine with me - Baard @ Pixum

your google analytics account has to be in english. - Thomas Acosta

It works fine, but the reports look like images from the pages you see when you access Analytics with your browser. You need to zoom in to actually read the reports. There is another app called myAnalytics (not free) that shows you less information, but it's easily readable. - Peter van Teeseling

that looks really uncomfortable - Darren Heydon

This is probably the dumbest idea ever. - Shawn Hickman

lol - TheHenry

FAIL - imabonehead

it looks brilliant - Shawn aka ringking

I've used Posterous on several occasions. It is my blogging platform from Hacker Cons. Since the con networks are so hostile it provides a method of blogging the event without exposing my primary blogs. It works great. http://knowthenetwork.posterous.com/ - Keith - @tsudo

When I first used it a few months ago, I decided to see if I could create an account and post an article. The thing is I did this BEFORE I ever went to posterous.com. These guys have produced a lovely simple blogging platform. - A Fan :) - Dave Pook

That was a piece of cake. Now, let's see if I find it useful. - Kenley Neufeld

I like that I can send a movie off my Blackberry Bold and have a place to not only display it but have the ability to post words to go along with it. Cool.I tried posting a movie to Flickr in much the same way (via email) and it wouldn't take. - Wayne Schulz

I keep flip-flopping between this and Tumblr. I love Tumblr's bookmarklet, and don't really have as much of a need to post from email (I'm in a browser anyway, why not use it?). - Lindsay

yeah, i know what your saying Lindsay - i just love the autoforwarding to my main wordpress blog from Posterous... works remarkably well. - Zee.

How embarrassing. I've been a member since June and completely forgot. Not even 60 yet and already senile. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

this is good. no registration, no account, no login! just send email for blogging! - Wyattblogger

Of course it's good! http://10dier.posterous.com/ ; ) - Didier Lahely

If you're not on this site, you need to be. - Outsanity

I like it. I've been using it to post music that I enjoy nudging people about. - Niklas Pivic

By posting it on here, you've apparently killed it - "Posterous is having a beer at the moment, but we'll be right back. No, really. Try hitting reload in about 5 minutes. Don't worry, we're hard at work getting posterous back in order soon." - Aram Zucker-Scharff

And it's back. Looks nifty. I'll have to try it. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Not back on my end, not yet. - Amit Morson

Sometimes I wish it was less "guide" and more guiding principle. - Steve Spalding

*sigh* I want to be both. FF wouldn't be any fun if I were just finding stuff to put in here but not enjoying the content anyone else was sharing. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I'm so busy trying to plan how to be interesting, I don't have time to be interested. Consequently, the planning also gets in the way of actually being interesting. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

I honestly think the second becomes easier if you pay attention to the first. If you care about what others are saying, you'll find all sorts of interesting places for input. - Steve Spalding

interesting :) - mikepk

@chris Heck yea, a lot of hard work goes into trying to be consistently interesting. - Steve Spalding

It's a basic concept. Everyone's favorite topic is themself. So, when involved in conversation, if all you do is ask open-ended questions based on the content of what the other person is saying, the other person will regard you as a great conversationalist, even though you have said nothing. Try it! All great salespeople know this concept cold. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

my momma always said 'interested people are interesting'. - Morgan Haley

For awhile there, I was disappointed that there wasn't a 17" unibody when I bought my first MacBook Pro but now I think 17" would be too big. I'd rather have the 15" and then spend money on a good monitor to hook it up to when I need the extra real estate. - Akiva Moskovitz

If Apple can claim that the battery will last 24 hours (20 hours in real world use), then I don't think that'd be a bad thing. - Rom Feria

I hope this "can't switch battery" thing doesn't become a trend. Bad enough the iPods and iPhones have it. - David Bisset (sn)

If they make a battery that can last 24 hours, then it is well worth it. My Powerbook G4 lasts about 2 hours on the battery. That would be a big improvement. - Shawn Hickman

What about when to comment vs. when to write your own post? - mikepk

FriendFeed for in-between cases where the original observation is fairly pithy, but may be found worthy of comment/conversation/development. Or where it would be too long for twitter but off-topic for your blog. - Tegan Dowling

I think the same rules apply. If you have to go in depth you make your own post and reference the inspiration. - MarkCarras

I don't think FriendFeed is for in-between cases. I think FF is a totally different animal altogether. I'm still thinking on that one... - Daniel Miessler

Let's say that FF is also, among other uses, for in-between cases? - Bora Zivkovic

There are rules to this stuff? - Jesse Stay

nice summary. i use plurk as well and this could apply there (ie when a quicker conversation response is needed) - Charlie Robinson

Jesse, well guidelines really - mikepk

So, anyone had any problems with their updates? - alphaxion

So far so good for me - RyanEs

Me too *touches wood* although I did get kicked off my own wireless network last night for no apparent reason -- re-entered the password and got straight back on. Probably unrelated. - Timothy Griffin

The update seemed to have fried TweetDeck. Nothing happened when the app starts up. But a clean delete with AppCleaner and then a reinstall works fine again. - Jonathan Kong

After updating, I can actually run Call of Duty 4 in single player mode. It would crash on launching before. I still have a semi-dead DVD drive from a previous update (it won't read PC-formatted cds). - Carlos Granier-Phelps

No problems here. - Bill Sodeman

Ran S/W Update and downloaded OS 10.5.6, Camino 1.6.6 and Firefox 3,0.5, plus a bunch of videos via my friend's wifi, then put my MB to sleep and rode home. The install/restart barely took 8 minutes or so. All seems to be fine as usual, maybe even a bit snappier! - Siddharth Deb

I love it! - TheHenry

If I'm going to make myself dizzy, I'll be on the Ocarina. It's cute, though. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I want my $0.99 back! - Troy Forster from twhirl

@Troy - Wouldn't the iTunes App Resale store be a killer app! ;) - Jo Booth

nope nor did I!! pretty clever... - Jez Arnold

I'm guessing they don't have virtual sock exchanges? Oh, they do? Sorry ;) - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

In classic Neo ... whoa! - AJ Kohn

Let's pick a word that isn't up on any wall and see how many times we can become statistics. - Andrew Trinh

me neither...cool - Susan Beebe

Thats a cool feature for Facebook. - Bob Gannon

Oh, I remember that! - Bryce Roney