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2008-05-29
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 29 – May 29, 2008 727 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 150 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Andrew Chen: Getting your startup from zero to critical mass

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Omnisio: Slide-Sync Tool Launched

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 62 stories

  1. Andrew Chen: Getting your startup from zero to critical mass

  2. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

  3. Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck

  4. The Coolest Business Plan Ever

Show 10 more
  1. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

  2. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

  3. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

  4. Wigix: A Stock Market for Your Stuff

  5. VC Funding Spelled Backwards

  6. Twitter’s business model is to sell the company

  7. Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop

  8. The end is near: Henry Blodget's index of companies that don't make products and don't have revenues

  9. Startup Bootstrap Funding: Unemployment

  10. Tipjoy: Why Didn't it Take Off? Pathology of a Floundering Web 2.0 Startup

Sports 26 stories

  1. Game’s high score could earn the Nobel

  2. uWink: A Cold Greasy Plate of Fail

Show 6 more
  1. TechCrunch: Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly

  2. Scribd Launches "Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest" - Win a MacBook Air

  3. Game development with Lisp, how to acquire knowledge (from manuals), and other random thoughts

  4. Students Fail -- and Professor Loses Job

  5. Google's search business to be bigger than Windows

  6. Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester

Technology 538 stories

  1. Dynamic Languages Strike Back

  2. Yahoo, Microsoft Back At The Table

  3. Evan Williams: Twitter not abandoning Rails

Show 9 more
  1. Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

  2. Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi

  3. Lies We Tell Kids

  4. Cities and Ambition

  5. PG: Disconnecting Distraction

  6. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too

  7. The Frontal Cortex : The Hidden Cost of Smart Drugs

  8. Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

  9. Architecture astronauts take over

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. The day the music died

  2. YourWeek: a reddit-powered TV news program by PBS

Show 6 more
  1. Want to see how efficient your code is? Have it refactored.

  2. Show, Don't Tell

  3. Google Launches TV Advertising

  4. My No TV

  5. Hulu - Start-Up Junkies episodes

  6. Three levels of addressing the Netflix Prize

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