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2008-08-28
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 21 – August 28, 2008 177 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 241 Get it by email ↓
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So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...

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Business 10 stories

  1. So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...

  2. "The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

  3. Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company

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  1. Olympic Medal Count, Adjusted for Population and GDP

  2. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0

  3. 8 Golden Rules of Interface Design

  4. How Did You Get the Confidence to Start Your Business?

Sports 6 stories

  1. Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

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  1. Facebook game "mobwars" making $22,000 a day

  2. Keep found things found, search Delicious 2.0 on Google with WebMynd (YC Winter 08)

  3. Picwing (YC Summer 08) on Engadget

Technology 150 stories

  1. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

  2. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

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  1. Series AA Documents Back Online

  2. Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?

  3. One Inviolable Rule

  4. JParallax - Javascript parallax effect

  5. Fuck the VCs

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. 7 Ways I've Almost Killed FreshBooks

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  1. Songbird beta launches (includes integration with Songkick for concert tickets)

  2. Related pages widget shown on Wikipedia using Directed Edge engine

  3. Build your own Fusion Reactor [pdf]

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