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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 26 – October 26, 2007 719 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 299 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple's U.S. market share rises to 8.1%, up from 6.2% a year ago

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Algorithms (free book draft)

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Version Control and "the 80%"

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 73 stories

  1. Apple's U.S. market share rises to 8.1%, up from 6.2% a year ago

  2. What reddit taught me about startups: making money (really?)

  3. Venture Capital's Hidden Calamity

  4. The Future of Web Startups

Show 10 more
  1. Why to Move to a Startup Hub

  2. Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup

  3. Ryan Carson responds to Paul Graham on startup hubs

  4. Web Startups Are A Commodity

  5. The Problems With My Startup

  6. Paul Buchheit: The next big adventure

  7. Two months of hard work. What do you think of my startup? ZoooV.com

  8. For once the World Bank says something smart about the real causes of prosperity (and poverty)

  9. Operations as a competitive advantage for startups

  10. Q&A: Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail

Sports 24 stories

  1. Next Gen Wind Power Generator - Popular Mechanics 2007 Breakthrough Award winner

  2. The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich

Show 6 more
  1. Source: Microsoft wins Facebook bid battle

  2. Justin.tv Wins Funding, Opens Platform

  3. Machine Learning and Dragons - A Game

  4. Al Gore & IPCC win 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

  5. AI winter

  6. Windows Startup Sounds - 1.0 to Vista

Technology 498 stories

  1. The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, Part 1

  2. Who Wants to Be a Facebook Millionaire?

  3. Auctomatic Launches 2.0 Tools for eBay Power Users

Show 9 more
  1. Aaron Swartz: How to Get a Job Like Mine

  2. YC: What No Means

  3. What do 16,000 people do at Google?

  4. California

  5. Zombo.com - YC applicant - feedback wanted

  6. Physician with a Slick, Web 2.0-ish Method of Practice

  7. Reddit lesson #3: fuck facebook, make real friends

  8. Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months

  9. 3998-byte executable reduced to 45 bytes

Entertainment 26 stories

  1. Submit Your Code To Be Refactored

  2. Songkick: Live Music Lovers Will Love This (from YC summer '07)

Show 6 more
  1. Justin.TV: A Site Warhol Would Relish

  2. Rejected from YC? Justin.tv still loves you!

  3. A long-lost text by Archimedes shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus

  4. 8.38% on Netflix Progress Prize

  5. Freedom to Tinker: Infinite Storage for Music

  6. "Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers" (not a joke!)

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