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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 30 – August 29, 2008 804 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google To Launch Venture Fund

avc.blogs.com · 2 sources

Also covering this techcrunch.comGoogle To Launch Venture Fund
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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Apple Now Worth More Than Google

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    A New, Simple Way to Salt your Hashes

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Business

    How To Demo Your Startup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. Google To Launch Venture Fund

    avc.blogs.com · 2 outlets

  2. Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. A Fundraising Survival Guide

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. Business Requirements are Bullshit

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. They sold the startup, then bought it back.. (footytips.com.au)

    slate.com · 2 outlets

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

    smartnow.com · 1 outlets

  3. Lessons from a Startup Acquisition

    balsamiq.com · 3 outlets

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

    whatmightymousehaslear · 1 outlets

  5. 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

    ycstartups.com · 2 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  7. Tiny open source computer made from six ICs (hardware startup)

    linuxdevices.com · 1 outlets

  8. My Startup project: Qhoga.com

    errorkey.com · 2 outlets

  9. Series AA Equity Financing Documents

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  10. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

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

    msnbc.msn.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

    shoooes.net · 1 outlets

  2. Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

    voltagecreative.com · 1 outlets

  3. Redesigned 8-bit and 16-bit games (Some unbelievable)

    neogaf.com · 1 outlets

  4. Picwing (YC Summer 08) on Engadget

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  5. Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile

    blogs.zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  6. History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player in 9-stone game

    usgo.org · 1 outlets

Technology 591 stories

  1. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

    amazon.com · 4 outlets

  2. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

    vimeo.com · 2 outlets

  3. Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means

    blog.headius.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability

    mpt.net.nz · 2 outlets

  2. How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)

    nukemanbill.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

  3. Start a side project, says GitHub founder

    gist.github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

    aaronsw.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides

    www-tech.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Calvin and Jobs (comic)

    farm4.static.flickr.co · 1 outlets

  7. Series AA Documents Back Online

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  8. The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

    sethgodin.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  9. For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

    blog.wired.com · 2 outlets

  2. 7 Ways I've Almost Killed FreshBooks

    freshbooks.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google Insights shows what sites are mainstream and which ones are still early adopter

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. The NetFlix of Junk

    futureboy.blogs.fsb.cn · 1 outlets

  5. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

    xach.com · 1 outlets

  6. Launchbox Startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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