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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 3 – January 2, 2009 761 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 2 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

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1Articles

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Business

    Lesson learned from my biggest business mistake

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google App Engine Pricing Model

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 67 stories

  1. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

  2. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

  3. How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

  4. Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits

Show 10 more
  1. Using an automated day trader to generate income

  2. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

  3. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

  4. Obscene Losses: How YouPorn is Killing the Adult Entertainment Business

  5. Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal

  6. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

  7. Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09

  8. Startup now 100% on AWS (they're using AMQP, PostgreSQL, pgpool-II and Rails)

  9. 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

  10. Video of Investor Morten Lund at LeWeb. This guys is crazy/awesome.

Sports 27 stories

  1. How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (by the World of Goo people)

  2. Introducing the Picwing Smart Frame (YC S08)

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  1. Trolling To Win: Can trolling work better than asking for help?

  2. Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

  3. Physics Nobel Prize Winner Steven Chu Nominated to be Secretary of Energy

  4. Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser

  5. "Text editors should take a lesson from video games."

  6. Coding Horror: Finishing The Game

Technology 581 stories

  1. JavaScript Language Abstractions

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

  3. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

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  1. Internet sites could be given 'cinema-style age ratings', UK Culture Secretary says

  2. So you want to be a consultant?

  3. After Credentials

  4. The nicest math book I own

  5. Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

  6. The High-Res Society

  7. The Day Merb Joined Rails

  8. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

  9. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

  2. Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play

Show 6 more
  1. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

  2. Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?

  3. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

  4. MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library

  5. Hidden API features turn iPhone into "gaming device."

  6. Neighborhoods Propose Printing Their Own Currency To Encourage Local Shopping

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