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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 5 – August 4, 2008 798 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 217 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google To Launch Venture Fund

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why Won't Google Video Just Die?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 64 stories

  1. Google To Launch Venture Fund

  2. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

  3. Profitable After 3 Weeks

  4. The real cost of starting a startup?

Show 10 more
  1. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

  2. Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them

  3. Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup

  4. Balsamiq, a bootstrapped startup featured here some time ago, makes $10k in 6 weeks

  5. Ridiculous Small-Business Plan Encouraged By Friends

  6. 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

  7. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

  8. My experiences on a one month startup

  9. Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

  10. Paul Graham, Changing the World and "Built to Flip" Startups

Sports 30 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

  2. Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

Show 6 more
  1. Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)

  2. NFL player IQ by position

  3. Why Apple didn't use X for the window system

  4. Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Founders on Passing the Hat

  5. Yuil vs. Cuil - The hack wins hands down...

  6. Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawing to 12 perfect pen strokes

Technology 576 stories

  1. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

  2. Live fulltext search in Ruby on Rails

  3. John Gruber: The App Store, Day One

Show 9 more
  1. Perl Myths (slides from OSCON 2008)

  2. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

  3. Is This The Future Of Search?

  4. 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia

  5. Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

  6. Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

  7. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

  8. Why S3 went down

  9. Calvin and Jobs (comic)

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

  2. The NetFlix of Junk

Show 6 more
  1. Show and Tell YC: Built a webapp in ~14 hours

  2. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

  3. Justin.TV Reaches 1 Million Users

  4. Blender: far from a toy, it can produce beautiful 3D images and movies (and it's free)

  5. Inside the Lego Factory

  6. Netflix-style Start-up Scans, Digitizes, and, if Needed, Shreds Your Files

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