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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 17 – November 16, 2008 766 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 321 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Freemium is Not a Business Model

What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Using CouchDB with Django

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Business

    Review my startup: YouIntern.com

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    When Steve Jobs met Don Knuth

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 77 stories

  1. Freemium is Not a Business Model

  2. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

  3. Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

  4. The End of Wall Street's Boom

Show 10 more
  1. Let G.M. go bankrupt

  2. How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

  3. Microsoft to Give Free Software to Startups

  4. Review my startup: YouIntern.com

  5. Why startup pitches fail

  6. Do I Look Like a CEO?

  7. Techies Vs. The Business

  8. The Young Man's Business Model

  9. The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

  10. Reduce Your Business Costs With Free Stuff

Sports 35 stories

  1. Weebly (YC winter 07) scores 1 million users, reaches profitability

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

Show 6 more
  1. CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport.

  2. Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand

  3. Windows is a Ghetto

  4. Trying out Windows on Amazon

  5. First look at Windows 7

  6. Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up

Technology 539 stories

  1. Some straight talk from Jason Fried of 37s

  2. Rackspace acquire Slicehost

  3. Bill Gates' mysterious new company

Show 9 more
  1. Introducing Google Earth for iPhone

  2. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

  3. Full videos from Merbcamp 2008 now available

  4. A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

  5. Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement

  6. Let's End Adolescence

  7. Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)

  8. How people really use the iPhone

  9. Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Flickr reverse engineers the shapes of continents, countries, cities, and neighborhoods.

  2. Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause"

Show 6 more
  1. Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize

  2. Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad

  3. I (the person working on dashboard) respond to HN et al

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

  5. Justin.tv goes High Def

  6. MySpace, Auditude, And MTV Have Just Figured Out How To Monetize Online Video

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