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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 21 – December 21, 2009 796 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 355 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Twitter finally in the money with Google link

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    ARM Assembly Language Programming

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    An open letter to Eric Schmidt

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

  2. Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

  3. Clojure Funding Progress

  4. “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

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  1. Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

  2. What's the Deal with Fish Oil?

  3. Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

  4. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

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

  6. CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

  7. Startup ideas

  8. Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup

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

  10. StartupBoeing - Info from Boeing about how to start an airline

Sports 23 stories

  1. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

  2. Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game

Show 6 more
  1. YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict

  2. Why I Stopped Throwing Out Junk Mail

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

  4. Flixel: flash game framework

  5. Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

  6. Tinywm, a window manager in 50 lines of C

Technology 611 stories

  1. Browser Size, from Google Labs

  2. Web Developers Are Stupid and Arrogant

  3. Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

Show 9 more
  1. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad

  2. Amazon Introduces Bidding for CPU Time (Spot Instances)

  3. Microsoft rips off Plurk

  4. The End Of The CrunchPad

  5. There is a certain inevitability to life.

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

  7. Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr

  8. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

  9. Why I gave away my company to charity

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

  2. SSD Streaming at Last.fm

Show 6 more
  1. Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo

  2. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever

  3. Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

  4. Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts

  5. Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.

  6. Gaming the System

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