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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 20 – February 19, 2008 727 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 50 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

    Heroku | the Ruby on Rails Podcast

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony"

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Business

    How to quit your job and build a startup

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. 21 New Startups in the Valley

  2. The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

  3. "I did my part by reading about virtualization in a trade journal. Now you do the software part"

  4. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

Show 10 more
  1. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

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

  3. Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

  4. 2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH

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

  6. The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get... From Google

  7. The Nightmare Lunch With Your Venture Capitalist

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

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

  10. Fed cuts interest rates to 3.5%

Sports 23 stories

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

  2. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

Show 6 more
  1. Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

  2. (YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

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

  4. Windows Firewall [Pic]

  5. Drawings from an artist on LSD

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

Technology 524 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

  2. Silicon Valley Arrogance

  3. Bill Gates Calls for "Revision of Capitalism"

Show 9 more
  1. plugin detects people in public photos

  2. Dr. Dobb's | Lean Programming II

  3. Arc's Out

  4. "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony"

  5. PG on trolls

  6. Git is the next Unix

  7. How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

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

  9. Arc Ported to JavaScript

Entertainment 12 stories

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

  2. Last.fm makes music free to listen to

Show 6 more
  1. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

  2. Consumption stats show the gap between rich and poor is less than most assume

  3. Tour of Justin.TV Offices

  4. Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)

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

  6. R.E.M. open-sources its music videos: The future of content?

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