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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 6 – December 6, 2009 778 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 340 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The best questions we got while raising venture capital

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1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Go Programming Language

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    The Ruby Revolution is Over

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    There is a certain inevitability to life.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 52 stories

  1. The best questions we got while raising venture capital

  2. Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books

  3. Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession

  4. HD Videos from Startup Bootcamp at MIT now online

Show 10 more
  1. Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

  2. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

  3. Reddit decommissions its last Y Combinator funded server

  4. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

  5. Startup ideas

  6. Keep Your Startup Virtual

  7. FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  8. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

  9. How Experienced Developers Can Handicap a Lean Startup

  10. Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street

Sports 28 stories

  1. Running a freemium web app? Here's a big reason we're growing.

  2. Things Worth Knowing About Coffee

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  1. Canabalt: iPhone Game

  2. Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

  3. The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk

  4. How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball

  5. At peak, Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind

  6. Flixel: flash game framework

Technology 583 stories

  1. Getting it wrong over coffee

  2. Don Dodge hired by Google

  3. Apple's Mistake

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  1. The End Of The CrunchPad

  2. There is a certain inevitability to life.

  3. The Go Programming Language

  4. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

  5. A graphical comparison between employees, freelancers and makers.

  6. Why I gave away my company to charity

  7. Your looks and your inbox

  8. Improved conversions by 25%. Thanks Hacker News!

  9. Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets

  2. Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

Show 6 more
  1. Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.

  2. From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 1

  3. Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

  4. Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

  5. Renttherunway.com - Netflix for dresses

  6. Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor

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