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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 5 – August 4, 2010 776 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 216 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

catonmat.net · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A few git tips you didn't know about

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    What's wrong with 1975 programming

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News User Base Changed?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 61 stories

  1. I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

    catonmat.net · 1 outlets

  2. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  3. AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Startup Competitive Advantages that Work

    blog.asmartbear.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot

    peterc.org · 1 outlets

  2. My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

    nathanmarz.com · 1 outlets

  3. YCommonApp: Apply to 25+ YC-funded startups in under 10 minutes

    ycommonapp.com · 1 outlets

  4. Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants

    chompstack.com · 1 outlets

  5. A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Royal We: Single Founder Startups

    ginzametrics.com · 1 outlets

  7. Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup

    sachinagarwal.com · 1 outlets

  8. The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  9. If you can't buy your investor a beer, don't take their money

    sachin.posterous.com · 1 outlets

  10. How to Build a Data-Driven Startup

    davidcancel.com · 1 outlets

Sports 21 stories

  1. How to Lose Time and Money

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police

    abcnews.go.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. To-do app + RPG = EpicWin

    epicwinapp.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Makani Power, a Google funded wind energy startup, comes out of stealth

    makanipower.com · 1 outlets

  4. Xcode 4 public preview - Single window, LLVM 2.0, streamlined editing

    developer.apple.com · 1 outlets

  5. How Steam stopped me from pirating games and enjoy the sweet DRM kool-aid

    crunchgear.com · 1 outlets

  6. Is The Game Industry A Happy Place?

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

Technology 597 stories

  1. My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

    johannhari.com · 2 outlets

  2. Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users

    tuaw.com · 4 outlets

  3. Emerging Languages camp - day 1

    olabini.com · 5 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R

    sheddingbikes.com · 1 outlets

  2. A few git tips you didn't know about

    alexisohanian.com · 7 outlets

  3. The Top Idea in Your Mind

    paulgraham.com · 3 outlets

  4. Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

    mariovittone.com · 2 outlets

  5. Abandoned open source projects

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 4 outlets

  6. The Acceleration of Addictiveness

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  7. Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm

    sites.google.com · 1 outlets

  8. How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  9. One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen

    vimeo.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist

    thepointmag.com · 1 outlets

  2. Emacs, artist mode

    cinsk.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

    lilypond.org · 2 outlets

  2. The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  3. Full Trailer For Facebook Movie ‘The Social Network’ Hits The Web

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Twilio Open Sources Stashboard, the Status Dashboard

    blog.twilio.com · 1 outlets

  5. Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies

    ms-studio.com · 1 outlets

  6. Judge draws parallel between music sharing and unlicensed public performance

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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