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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 14 – December 14, 2007 750 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 348 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

San Francisco Startup Weekend: HelpHookup.com (live progress)

helphookup.com · 2 sources

Also covering this grid7.comLive from SF with the founder of Startup Weekend as we launch helphookup.com
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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Perl On Rails - What the BBC Does Right

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Official: Facebook Flips On Beacon

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Merb | A different Ruby framework

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 65 stories

  1. San Francisco Startup Weekend: HelpHookup.com (live progress)

    helphookup.com · 2 outlets

  2. Buy your own video startup

    splashup.com · 4 outlets

  3. What Does Your Brain on Funding Look Like?

    betterexplained.com · 3 outlets

  4. Google's wireless chief, Sacca, leaves to become angel investor

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Does venture capital kill great ideas?

    unionsquareventures.co · 3 outlets

  2. Y Combinator Startup School Notelab 2006

    notelab.infogami.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why Being Outside Silicon Valley is Good for Startups

    updates.blognation.com · 2 outlets

  4. Business Advice from a Billionaire

    wisebread.com · 2 outlets

  5. Scribd in the Wall Street Journal

    scribd.com · 2 outlets

  6. 2001: Business Week explains why Apple stores won't work

    businessweek.com · 1 outlets

  7. The other tech CEOs "For every Chad Hurley or Mark Zuckerberg there are many Sathvik Krishnamurthys"

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  8. Loic Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  9. "Running a startup is a great way to learn how to, and how not to, ignore the right things."

    radar.oreilly.com · 1 outlets

  10. Water becomes the new oil as world runs dry

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. Stunt Pilot - our first flash game

    rocksolidarcade.com · 1 outlets

  2. Portal is the most subversive game ever

    gamesradar.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. You'll never be this good at games...

    gamesradar.com · 1 outlets

  2. Saul Griffith on winning a MacArthur, entrepreneurship, and dumpster diving

    money.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  3. For the game designers and players: this is the best list of well-designed flash games

    goodexperience.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why don't sports teams use randomization?

    freakonomics.blogs.nyt · 1 outlets

  5. Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team?

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Disqus: Scoble, Winer and Fred Wilson Like it, Why I Don't

    blogbusinesssummit.com · 1 outlets

Technology 526 stories

  1. Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why I regret getting straight A's in college

    blog.penelopetrunk.com · 2 outlets

  3. Google goes digg-like on search

    techcrunch.com · 11 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Tim Berners-Lee - Giant Global Graph

    blogs.zdnet.com · 2 outlets

  2. We didn't start the Fire (2.0)

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  3. xkcd - Network

    xkcd.com · 1 outlets

  4. It's not exponential, it's sigmoidal

    radar.oreilly.com · 1 outlets

  5. Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30)

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Dictatorship of Talent

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. Buffet: Saving Sex For Your Old Age

    mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu · 1 outlets

  9. The Next Social Network: WordPress

    paulbuchheit.blogspot. · 4 outlets

Entertainment 20 stories

  1. Justin.tv a Finalist in the Amazon Startup Challenge

    developer.amazonwebser · 2 outlets

  2. Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

    thesixtyone.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. MIT students being badass on the big screen -- the '21' movie trailer (Bringing Down The House)

    piusuzamere.com · 1 outlets

  2. Reminder: Leah Culver talking at Justin.TV tomorrow

    abstractstuff.livejour · 2 outlets

  3. Atlas Shrugged movie in 2008 (Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart)

    imdb.com · 1 outlets

  4. ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown

    yarivsblog.com · 1 outlets

  5. Disney To Make Up To 20 Startup Acquisitions In Next 24 Months

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Pandora now includes Classical music

    boingboing.net · 2 outlets

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