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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 26 – February 25, 2008 716 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 56 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Yahoo-Microsoft merger bad news for startups?

blog.pmarca.com · 2 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Heroku | the Ruby on Rails Podcast

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Business

    Ask YC: feedback on my startup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Silicon Valley Arrogance

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Yahoo-Microsoft merger bad news for startups?

    blog.pmarca.com · 2 outlets

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

    paulbuchheit.blogspot. · 1 outlets

  3. Chris Anderson: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    dilbert.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

    flownet.com · 1 outlets

  2. Press for Startups: 10 tips

    david.weebly.com · 1 outlets

  3. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Average startup profitability is to decrease by 30-40% in 2008-2018

    startupschool.org · 3 outlets

  7. US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

    strangemaps.wordpress. · 1 outlets

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

    sanfran.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Nightmare Lunch With Your Venture Capitalist

    clubenetwork.com · 2 outlets

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

    blog.pmarca.com · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

    techanodyne.com · 1 outlets

  2. (YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. This isn’t a zero-sum game

    bluntobject.wordpress. · 1 outlets

  5. Windows Firewall [Pic]

    severeshock.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Art and Science of JavaScript Games

    sitepoint.com · 1 outlets

Technology 524 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

    news.yahoo.com · 18 outlets

  2. Bill Gates demos Xobni

    gaborcselle.com · 2 outlets

  3. plugin detects people in public photos

    blogoscoped.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Dr. Dobb's | Lean Programming II

    ddj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Arc's Out

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

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

    paulgraham.com · 4 outlets

  4. Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote

    blogs.zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  5. PG on trolls

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  6. News.YC open-sourced

    arclanguage.org · 1 outlets

  7. Don't Become a Scientist.

    wuphys.wustl.edu · 1 outlets

  8. Git is the next Unix

    advogato.org · 1 outlets

  9. How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

    groups.google.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Nice graphic: box office revenues since 1986

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    reble.fm · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Electron Caught On Film For The First Time

    scientificblogging.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Launchbox, a YC clone, is now ready to take applications

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    thefeelgood.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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