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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 24 – December 24, 2009 833 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 358 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

    The impact of language choice on github projects

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    How Python is killing Lisp

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 52 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

Show 10 more
  1. Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

  2. What's the Deal with Fish Oil?

  3. Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month

  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. Anniversary of the Rails/Merb Merger: So How'd It Go?

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

Sports 24 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. Learn Python by writing games (free book)

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

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

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

Technology 631 stories

  1. Browser Size, from Google Labs

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

  3. Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone

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's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my 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. How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.

Entertainment 22 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. Gaming the System

  6. Justin.tv Testifies to Congress about its Copyright Protection Systems

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