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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 22 – October 22, 2008 786 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 296 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Freemium is Not a Business Model

markevanstech.com · 2 sources

Also covering this pchristensen.comFreemium Isn’t A Business Model, It’s A Marketing And Trust Strategy
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Giving up on Google App Engine

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Business

    'Wall Street' No Longer Exists

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Tim O'Reilly to software developers: Get serious

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 79 stories

  1. Freemium is Not a Business Model

    markevanstech.com · 2 outlets

  2. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

    portfolio.com · 2 outlets

  4. Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. $700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets

    msnbc.msn.com · 1 outlets

  2. A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes

    blog.weatherby.net · 1 outlets

  3. The best description of the fed bailout

    angrybear.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

  4. I find this startup rather disturbing...

    spokeo.com · 2 outlets

  5. How Steve Jobs pitches a startup

    venturehacks.com · 1 outlets

  6. Do I Look Like a CEO?

    businessweek.com · 1 outlets

  7. Angel investor: Want my money? Here's my checklist

    alleyinsider.com · 2 outlets

  8. Techies Vs. The Business

    plpatterns.com · 1 outlets

  9. Bank Robber Recruits Accomplices With Fake Job Ad on Craigslist

    schneier.com · 1 outlets

  10. WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go.

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. PG - "The Papa Bear" - on BusinessWeek's list of most influential people on the web

    images.businessweek.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. RescueTime (YC winter 08) raises $900k to expand

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel prize

    economix.blogs.nytimes · 1 outlets

  3. Rate My Startup - Dawdle.com Is A "Moronically Easy" Online Marketplace For Gamers

    dawdle.com · 1 outlets

  4. The eyeballing game

    woodgears.ca · 1 outlets

  5. Iceland close to bankruptcy

    timesofindia.indiatime · 1 outlets

  6. Learn Game Programming in Scheme

    world.cs.brown.edu · 1 outlets

Technology 561 stories

  1. Cloud computing is a trap, says Stallman

    guardian.co.uk · 2 outlets

  2. How do I get in shape? Excercise Hack for Entrepreneurs

    davidadewumi.com · 1 outlets

  3. JQuery finds its way into Microsoft and Nokia stacks

    ajaxian.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Y Combinator’s SocialBrowse Launches To The Public

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

    tom.preston-werner.com · 1 outlets

  3. Giving up on Google App Engine

    duckduckgo.com · 8 outlets

  4. Reflections of a YC Dropout

    orianmarx.com · 1 outlets

  5. The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  6. IPhone NDA officially dropped

    developer.apple.com · 1 outlets

  7. Paul Krugman: How I work

    princeton.edu · 1 outlets

  8. Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

    sidsavara.com · 1 outlets

  9. Python 2.6 Released

    python.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. How To Become An Open-Source Contractor

    emiller.info · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix API Launches

    blog.programmableweb.c · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. YC Startup Justin.tv hits Alexa 160

    alexa.com · 1 outlets

  2. Lala May Have Just Built The Next Revolution In Digital Music

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Term Paper Artist

    thesmartset.com · 1 outlets

  4. New Google Chrome Builds Show Greasemonkey Support

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

  5. "Counter­terrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better"

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

  6. Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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