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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 12 – May 19, 2007 169 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 139 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

How to scale your rails app, by Scribd (a YC startup)

Business 29 stories

  1. How to scale your rails app, by Scribd (a YC startup)

  2. YC startup Auctomatic looking to hire

  3. Eric Schmidt: "Google buys a startup once every few days"

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  1. SmugMug: Investing in a speedy site pays off for users

  2. Andrew Chen: Forget advertising - will virtual goods be the killer revenue model for Web 2.0?

  3. Veotag gets 750k investment

  4. Startup pricing woes: Challenges of the freemium model

Sports 9 stories

  1. Is your idea a winner?

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  1. Are Paul Graham and professional golfer Phil Mickelson long lost twins? (something fun for today)

  2. Startup Hiring: 6 Subtle Signs You Might Have A Winner

  3. What are the top programming languages? The fastest growing?

Technology 113 stories

  1. Stanford students vie to be 'Entrepreneur Idol'

  2. The Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design

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  1. A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Billionaires

  2. The Only Way is the Wrong Way

  3. The Real Story of JPG Magazine - a cautionary tale for founders

  4. Virtualmin Founder Joe Cooper Explains Y Combinator to Slashdot Trolls

  5. Make your site mobile friendly

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. MIT launches tech TV (youtube for techies)

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  1. Truemors: A Lesson For Web2.0 Startups ... Celebrity Is Important.

  2. Backers of stronger copyright laws form lobby group (Hollywood/Music + MS)

  3. Dave.TV - putting ads into videos the second a product is mentioned

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