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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 29 – January 28, 2009 734 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 28 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News doesn't validate

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

  2. How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included)

  3. Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

  4. Employees working on their own business

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  1. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

  2. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

  3. Why Your Startup Will Fail

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

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

  6. More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development

  7. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

  8. Things to consider before launching a startup (or) Sometimes it's not so fun

  9. Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability: A Web 1.0 Comparison

  10. More about Google's commodity servers

Sports 20 stories

  1. How we roll in Amsterdam - A method of transportation you should use too

  2. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download

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  1. Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing

  2. Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09)

  3. Coding Horror: Finishing The Game

  4. If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7

  5. Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I.

  6. How Sony inadvertently helped a competitor and lost position in the videogame market

Technology 573 stories

  1. Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All

  2. Firefox: An Acceptable Cross Platform GUI Toolkit

  3. Powering a Google search

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  1. Some things need to change

  2. A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...

  3. Why Google Employees Quit

  4. How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008

  5. Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

  6. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

  7. The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective

  8. Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

  9. The 37signals Effect

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar

  2. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

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  1. Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus

  2. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

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

  4. Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free

  5. Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser

  6. Youtube starts muting videos with copyrighted music

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