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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 4 – January 3, 2009 758 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 3 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Google App Engine Pricing Model

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 69 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

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  1. Using an automated day trader to generate income

  2. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

  3. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

  4. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

  5. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

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

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

  8. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

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

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

Sports 26 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 577 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 Day Merb Joined Rails

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

  8. Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface

  9. Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

  2. Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple

Show 6 more
  1. Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play

  2. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

  3. Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?

  4. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

  5. Wetware Refactorings

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

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