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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 24 – October 24, 2008 777 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 298 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

    8 of 30 days · 9 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. I find this startup rather disturbing...

    spokeo.com · 2 outlets

  4. Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups

    fogcreek.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 34 stories

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport.

    nb.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    images.businessweek.co · 1 outlets

  2. Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel prize

    economix.blogs.nytimes · 1 outlets

  3. Trying out Windows on Amazon

    aws.typepad.com · 3 outlets

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

    dawdle.com · 1 outlets

  5. The eyeballing game

    woodgears.ca · 1 outlets

  6. Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 550 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

Show 9 more

  1. Rackspace acquire Slicehost

    blog.jungledisk.com · 3 outlets

  2. Y Combinator’s SocialBrowse Launches To The Public

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  3. Bill Gates' mysterious new company

    techflash.com · 2 outlets

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

    tom.preston-werner.com · 1 outlets

  5. Giving up on Google App Engine

    duckduckgo.com · 9 outlets

  6. Reflections of a YC Dropout

    orianmarx.com · 1 outlets

  7. The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  8. IPhone NDA officially dropped

    developer.apple.com · 1 outlets

  9. Paul Krugman: How I work

    princeton.edu · 1 outlets

Entertainment 13 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. Lala May Have Just Built The Next Revolution In Digital Music

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Term Paper Artist

    thesmartset.com · 1 outlets

  3. New Google Chrome Builds Show Greasemonkey Support

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

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

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

    physorg.com · 1 outlets

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