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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 4 – December 4, 2008 783 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 339 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ask HN: Review my startup

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    IBM to build brain-like computers

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Geek Pop Star (Malcolm Gladwell)

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Business

    Marketing Lessons From The US Election

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 67 stories

  1. Ask HN: Review my startup

    acruw.com · 5 outlets

  2. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. The End of Wall Street's Boom

    portfolio.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Marketing Lessons From The US Election

    mattmazur.com · 4 outlets

  2. Let G.M. go bankrupt

    blogs.law.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

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

    royal.pingdom.com · 1 outlets

  6. Textbook Rentals Big Business - Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Why take your startup 'all-cloud'? A founder explains

    tonywright.com · 2 outlets

  8. 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich

    nichegeek.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. One Big Reason For Apple's Market Share Gains.

    notebooks.com · 3 outlets

Sports 24 stories

  1. The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  2. The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes

    hackety.org · 1 outlets

  2. Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ender's Game Review

    plover.net · 1 outlets

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

    masshightech.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

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

    losethos.com · 1 outlets

Technology 573 stories

  1. Official Google Blog: Sorting 1PB with MapReduce

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 2 outlets

  2. Mark Cuban is bullish on America

    online.wsj.com · 3 outlets

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

    themetricsystem.rjmetr · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Let's End Adolescence

    businessweek.com · 1 outlets

  2. The High-Res Society

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

    getacoder.com · 1 outlets

  4. How people really use the iPhone

    slideshare.net · 1 outlets

  5. Python 3.0 Released

    python.org · 1 outlets

  6. The IT Contract from Hell

    itcontractor.com · 1 outlets

  7. Mr. Benioff, Tear Down That Wall

    blogs.zoho.com · 1 outlets

  8. Is it going to rain?

    goingtorain.com · 1 outlets

  9. Joel on Software: Anecdotes

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

    newteevee.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    cameronmoll.com · 1 outlets

  3. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

    blogs.suntimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hulu already making more money than YouTube

    mediamemo.allthingsd.c · 1 outlets

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

    scienceblog.com · 1 outlets

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

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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