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"Good point, Kevin - may well be that a hell of a lot of the views of her content (and consequently, click-throughs to yours) take place on the Tumblr dashboard, and so won't affect the compete stats. Further, a proper statistician would probably be able to make some interesting conclusions about the sort of blogs people follow via Tumblr vs. the sort that receive lots of traffic from the wider web...I'm not sure these would be one and the same." - Jonathan Deamer

"Respect for doing that too...I'm a big believer in "lifelong learning", but so many people seem to look down on evening classes and similar as somehow not being "real" education." - Jonathan Deamer

"Nice one Albert, look forward to reading it if you get chance in the new year...happy holidays!" - Jonathan Deamer

"Would love to read a post summarising your talk - education and careers advice does focus too much on going to work for large companies. In particular, when I was in college it would have been useful to hear the pros/cons of starting up on your own vs. joining someone else's startup." - Jonathan Deamer

"Fascinating reading, especially the stats about Openfeint. I'm interested to see whether Chillingo's similar Crystal SDK has a similar effect. Also of interest might be some similar findings in a report I was involved in producing recently for Northwest Vision and Media http://www.scribd.com/doc......" - Jonathan Deamer

"Once you've read the book, you'll realise why this is ;-) Free is only *part* of a business model, not *all* of it...give some stuff away for free (eg. web/audio versions), monetise others (eg. dead tree version)." - Jonathan Deamer

"I've heard word from tha Schmidt to that effect too...I just wonder whether it can be taken as gospel? Wow, hope the Aardman servers were prepared ;-) Busy day for the sysadmin there!" - Jonathan Deamer

"Or, as I had to the other day, using your Dad's netbook. Which, interestingly (or horrifically) also runs Office '97. He has a Windows phone too." - Jonathan Deamer

"Was gonna compare to The Rolling Stones, glad I didn't now ;-)" - Jonathan Deamer

"Of course, didn't assume that insinuation, just thought your wording was kinda poetic ;-)" - Jonathan Deamer

"I like the extended pie-metaphor of the penultimate paragraph...I'd love to read a post taking that idea further, comparing the whole VC business to competitive eating ;-p" - Jonathan Deamer

"I'd disagree that it's "for losers" - I think real-world marketing is something often overlooked by online services in lieu of hoping things will "go viral". I do think though that it looks like a somewhat desperate ploy by Yahoo - advertising is only effective in the long term if you've got, as you say a "useful and unmissable" product underneath. And I'm not sure they have." - Jonathan Deamer

"DailyBooth does seem to be getting a lot of press recently. I don't think it would provide quite the same mainstream seal of approval as Flickr though." - Jonathan Deamer

"You're not the first to make that mistake ;-) Some say "dreamer" is appropriate for my idealistic whimsy... I'm disappointed we didn't celebrate our follow anniversary though!" - Jonathan Deamer

"I hoped you'd comment. You never do. That's really bad 21st century parenting." - Jonathan Deamer

"MEGALOLZ HOMEBOI. Ahem." - Jonathan Deamer

"Notice I didn't link to them though ;-) You're right though - but the question is, will anyone now go and sign up with Monster as a result of this blog post?" - Jonathan Deamer

"Smiths lyrics FTW :-p" - Jonathan Deamer

"I can imagine this working brilliantly with something like Audioboo." - Jonathan Deamer

"Not in any professional capacity, but I always used to fiddle with Visual Basic etc., and recently have begun a somwhat more earnest attempt to learn some Python and PHP. I do work with a lot of coders though and have sometimes quasi-managed development projects, so can very well empathise with a lot of Spolsky's thoughts, especially regarding "architecture astronauts" ;-)" - Jonathan Deamer

"Great news! As I went to tweet about this though, I was surprised to see that the Wikipedia entry for RSS that I wanted to link to didn't mention RSS Cloud. Well, it does now... :-)" - Jonathan Deamer

Good stats about how advertising your app in other apps leads to sales. - Jonathan Deamer

"Fantastic! I'm often compared startups' quest for VC funding as the Holy Grain to bands thinking "getting signed" is the be-all and end-all. I've done a bit of touring (not as much as you!), but a lot of music-y stuff, so I think I agree :-)" - Jonathan Deamer

"Would be really interested to hear your thoughts on a comment I've just made in my reblog at http://ashotofjd.com/post......" - Jonathan Deamer

"One of my faves too! That's really exciting, congrats. I've always liked a bit of Times New Viking as well :-)" - Jonathan Deamer

"Sorry... ;-)" - Jonathan Deamer

Did the sound design for my fave iPhone app of the moment, Ramp Champ. - Jonathan Deamer

Video ~46mins long. - Jonathan Deamer

"I'm sure the Dark Knight pic is an incredibly witty in-joke, but...I don't get it. Anyone care to enlighten me? (I'm must be missing something obvious!)" - Jonathan Deamer

"Thanks David. Key to this beyond the obvious "tabloid shock headlines" angle is that European startups need to be seen as more than the German/Belgian/Spanish etc. version of an established UK/US company!" - Jonathan Deamer