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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 28 – August 27, 2009 806 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 239 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's Wrong With E=MC^2?

    9 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple now bans e-books from the App Store

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What makes Erlang so great

    3 of 30 days · 7 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

  2. Starting a Bank

  3. Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias

  4. YC-Funded Flightcaster Tells You When Your Flight Is Delayed

Show 10 more
  1. Snaptalent Lesson One: Know Your Market

  2. The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup

  3. YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars

  4. Eye candy is a critical business requirement

  5. Tips for Startup Companies (2006)

  6. The number one reason my startup failed

  7. Apple Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay Refunds Out Of Pocket

  8. Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research

  9. Springboard. A new incubator (in Cambridge, UK), takes no equity.

  10. Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July

Sports 20 stories

  1. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games

  2. (chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button

Show 6 more
  1. Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform

  2. Google Wave is the new X-Windows

  3. The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game

  4. Tic-Tac-Toe in Erlang: Game Space Symmetries

  5. YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game

  6. Successful officeless game studio tells its secrets

Technology 612 stories

  1. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

  2. _why is no more

  3. Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

Show 9 more
  1. Apple now bans e-books from the App Store

  2. Eulogy to _why

  3. Signs that you're a bad programmer

  4. So long, and thanks for all the fish

  5. Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

  6. The Trouble with the Segway

  7. What's Wrong With E=MC^2?

  8. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

  9. Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix

  2. Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer

Show 6 more
  1. Inside a Netflix Warehouse

  2. GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations

  3. Netflix Prize 2

  4. What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel

  5. Radiohead Says No More Albums

  6. Sketchbooks aren't about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker

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