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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 11 – February 10, 2008 751 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 41 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

21 New Startups in the Valley

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's wrong with CS research

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What happened to Altavista?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Life after Google, with millions

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 64 stories

  1. 21 New Startups in the Valley

  2. Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager: "I'm sure today I would never get hired."

  3. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

  4. Kiva.org: So sucessful it has run out of projects to fund

Show 10 more
  1. 2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH

  2. My startup: Genetic testing for CCR5 delta 32 (HIV Resistance)

  3. The Nightmare Lunch With Your Venture Capitalist

  4. Ethan Herdrick (Biographicon): Running a startup on Scheme.

  5. Trader Made Billions on Subprime

  6. I'm pretty sure these guys pitched me on an angel investment last year

  7. Fed cuts interest rates to 3.5%

  8. Programming Book Profits

  9. The best advice you'll ever get about building a startup

  10. For those too young to remember, this is what a recession looks like

Sports 23 stories

  1. PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter

  2. Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

Show 6 more
  1. How to Write Stories (and lose weight, clean up the environment, and make a million dollars)

  2. Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

  3. Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows

  4. Drawings from an artist on LSD

  5. NBA player selling his branded shoes for $14.99. Disruptive, maybe?

  6. Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already (dBASE IV and Vista comparison)

Technology 538 stories

  1. An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer

  2. Silicon Valley Arrogance

  3. plugin detects people in public photos

Show 9 more
  1. Digg's secret editors

  2. Arc's Out

  3. What happened to Altavista?

  4. Richard Stallman is the new Chuck Norris

  5. Git is the next Unix

  6. How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

  7. Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

  8. Arc Ported to JavaScript

  9. Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. YC Startup Going into Beta: Reble.FM Music Sharing

  2. Last.fm makes music free to listen to

Show 6 more
  1. Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance

  2. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

  3. Tour of Justin.TV Offices

  4. Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million?

  5. Helvetica (the film)

  6. F8ce the music: Facebook applications are declining in popularity

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