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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 5 – July 5, 2008 736 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 187 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Diary of a Failed Startup

diffle-history.blogspo · 2 sources

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    This Is Not Your Daddy's OS

    9 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    LHC: Better safe than sorry.

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Diary of a Failed Startup

    diffle-history.blogspo · 2 outlets

  2. BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup)

    episteme.arstechnica.c · 2 outlets

  3. It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  4. A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.

    canadait.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. How not to approach an investor

    ricksegal.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  2. OpenTable Seats 3M diners per month, generates serious revenue

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  3. Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. 37Signals' "37BetterBank", circa 1998, is still better than my bank's interface from 2008

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  5. My Business Magazines Lied to Me

    coconutheadsets.com · 1 outlets

  6. How to Promote Startups

    aaronsw.com · 1 outlets

  7. 8 Golden Rules of Interface Design

    faculty.washington.edu · 1 outlets

  8. How Crocs Rakes in Revenues From Ugly Shoes

    businesspundit.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Business of XKCD

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  10. Detailed revenue breakdown of a gadget blog ($61k in dec 2007)

    selfmademinds.com · 1 outlets

Sports 22 stories

  1. Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

    rocksolidarcade.com · 1 outlets

  2. Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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  1. 280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Yahoo loses key mysql developer

    jeremy.zawodny.com · 1 outlets

  3. 'Duke Nukem Forever' Gameplay Video

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Google Way of Science - The Growing Importance of Data

    kk.org · 1 outlets

  5. Skills shortage hits games firms

    news.bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. Google Files "FriendRank" Patent (identifies the most influential of a circle of friends)

    appft1.uspto.gov · 1 outlets

Technology 542 stories

  1. Decommodify your product

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 9 outlets

  2. LinkedIn Architecture

    hurvitz.org · 2 outlets

  3. Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote (in 60 Seconds)

    mahalodaily.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

    timesonline.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. How Google Measures Search Quality

    techcrunch.com · 4 outlets

  4. The Future of Email: From SMTP to XMPP

    anarchogeek.com · 2 outlets

  5. Reddit Makes Their Code Open Source

    blog.reddit.com · 3 outlets

  6. Done, and Gets Things Smart

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

  7. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

    theamericanscholar.org · 1 outlets

  8. How to sell your software for $20,000

    nukemanbill.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

  9. The Secret to Bill Gates' Success

    blog.seattlepi.nwsourc · 4 outlets

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. 7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off

    dmix.ca · 1 outlets

  2. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Robbery caught on JTV

    blog.justin.tv · 1 outlets

  2. Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking a Decision

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  3. Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass

    blogmaverick.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Problem With Music

    negativland.com · 1 outlets

  5. Ustream.tv Just Got a Redesign, But Justin.tv Is Still Beating Its Pants Off

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix listens to customers, keeps profiles

    blog.netflix.com · 1 outlets

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