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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 12 – November 19, 2008 185 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 324 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

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Business 24 stories

  1. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

  2. The End of Wall Street's Boom

  3. Lessons learned from a failed poker software business

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  1. Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

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

  3. Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first)

  4. MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

Sports 5 stories

  1. Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month"

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  1. Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game: Makes $250K profit in two months.

  2. "LoseThos" 64-bit Open Source OS: For Programming as Entertainment

  3. Testing JavaScript performance on Windows XP is a crapshoot, at best

Technology 142 stories

  1. Insider Trading, or Political Persecution?

  2. The IT Contract from Hell

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  1. Joel on Software: Anecdotes

  2. Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars

  3. The calculus of caffeine consumption

  4. Heysan (YC 07) - 100 million monthly page views and 600,000 users

  5. 500 Exabytes per Raindrop

Entertainment 7 stories

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

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  1. Hulu already making more money than YouTube

  2. Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize

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

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