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Haha congrats Nick, I'll buy one drink's worth of shares at that valuation at tonight's Mashable event :-) As accurate or inaccurate as YouNoodle might be, it could end up just like Alexa or Compete where people don't necessarily take the numbers too seriously but use them as a frame of reference (one startups valuation versus another according to YouNoodle).

Sorry about that, got lost in the mail, added ...

thanks, glad you're enjoying it!

cool, glad you found Disqus through us, they are great :-)

lol, c'mon, pacman is the past, present, and future of technology.

Just a test comment ...

hah, great moment in journalism. fixed :)

Hmm I can't seem to get this to work. I've now got the bookmarklet installed, but when I click it, it brings up search results for the given post inside of Google Reader, but doesn't seem to share it (and there is no "share" option on the search results page). Any ideas?

Hi Nils - I have seen your complaints about not getting covered, but no actual pitch of what your site does :-) Perhaps it didn't get thru to us. Send it along - news@mashable.com

@lapp lol, what hair? :-)

@Lan - thanks for letting us know - added the credit

ReadBurner will be the best way to break the TechMeme habit!

Good post, Nick. And so true - most people still write into Mashable thinking Pete writes everything :-)

Congrats Steve ... Hope I can get my MBL situation sorted out too :)

well, it would be a fairly high margin business for the record labels no? Eliminating the middle-men like Rhapsody, iTunes, etc.

fav.or.it is a new RSS reader I reviewed recently with integrated comments that also show up on the original story.

Great headline Mathew. I actually laughed out loud :-)

Couldn't agree more with the story too, but it's all about the headline these days anyhow right?

Agree with you Mathew and the post from Valleywag, and I still consider myself a "kid" :) Video just isn't a very efficient way to communicate, though I do occasionally like to video chat with friends I haven't seen in a while via Skype. Plus, versus watching a video for a minute to determine if I'm going to get something useful, I can read the first paragraph of a blog in 15 seconds and figure out if I want to keep reading. The time adds up pretty quickly ...

Ah, missed that. It says "according to comScore" so I assume they are assuming to traffic, not actual registered users. I have a hard time believing Twitter has 1.2 million registered.

Hey Andy - Where have you seen the number that Twitter has more than one million users? Just curious ...

I didn't say it was fair value, but that's what the supposedly rational open market is valuing them at ;-)

I recently came to the conclusion that an installed user is worth about $1.40, based on the earnings of the only pure-play FB app company that is publicly traded (that I know of) - http://mashable.com/2008/01/16/snap-interactive/

Of course, that numbers can change a lot based on the biz model of the app.

Hey Nick - see the date on that VentureBeat article. The Frazr investment was last summer :)

This idea makes a lot of sense, and is sort of similar to the new direction we've taken at MindSay.com. We (there's two of us) recently decided to go the social news route, making our homepage a blog and letting users submit their own entries for consideration. We then sort through these entries and edit/link them with a consistent style. So far it seems to be going pretty well, with users submitting interesting stuff that seems to get a lot of comments.

Essentially, we took our existing community and tasked them with digging up news for us. Not everyone participates, but for those that do, it creates a news site with articles very relevant to them. I think you'll find a lot of success taking a similar approach to tech news.

My question is that as a VC, what "problem" did Tumblr convince you they are solving? And, with their tool being so simple and easy to duplicate, what is their competitive advantage? These seem to be the first things VCs have asked me whenever I've pitched an idea, and am wondering how a company as simple and in as crowded a space at Tumblr pitched it.