The Mez Ledger
Menu
2008-09-21
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 22 – September 21, 2008 758 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 265 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google Chrome Global Market Share: 2%

Also covering this techcrunch.comGoogle Chrome Global Market Share: 2%
2Outlets
2Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Functional programming and OCaml koans

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Massive RedHat Perl performance issue

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Google Chrome Global Market Share: 2%

  2. Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup

  3. Interview with a hedge fund manager

  4. 8 Golden Rules of Interface Design

Show 10 more
  1. Lehman going bankrupt. Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch

  2. Fed takes over AIG

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

  4. A Newbie’s Guide to Startup Compensation (or “Stock Options will Make Me Rich”)

  5. Stock Market Meltdowns - Why they will happen again and again and again

  6. Plan B for Fundraising (Guy Kawasaki making sense)

  7. Google's Floating Datacenters (Think Oil Rigs)

  8. Cory Doctorow: Firefox has my business, no matter how shiny the Chrome is

  9. Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay

  10. Talking Stocks

Sports 35 stories

  1. Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer

  2. A guy tries to find the origins of a Windows desktop image

Show 6 more
  1. Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

  2. Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web

  3. Tim O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy

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

  5. Myspace's Tom Anderson was an 80s "WarGames" Hacker

  6. Sprouts game

Technology 540 stories

  1. TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

  2. Erlang: An introduction to "Applications"

  3. Hyperbrain Owner's Manual - 1. the big picture

Show 9 more
  1. LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network

  2. V8: Chrome's JavaScript engine source code

  3. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

  4. Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)

  5. Django 1.0 is finally here

  6. How My Start-Up Failed

  7. Obama is RESTful

  8. The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car)

  9. App Store: I'm out

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. 7 Ways I've Almost Killed FreshBooks

  2. Panda - Open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming.

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)

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

  3. How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing Itself

  4. How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics

  5. Stormpulse showered with tips.

  6. Accounting for Taste: Choices in books, movies, music, and art go to the core of self.

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.