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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 17 – August 16, 2010 760 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 228 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Paypal for Groups" Startup WePay (YC S09) Raises $7.5M Series B

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Web spam - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Experimenting with Node.js

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News User Base Changed?

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 62 stories

  1. "Paypal for Groups" Startup WePay (YC S09) Raises $7.5M Series B

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

  3. 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

  4. The Future of Startup Funding

Show 10 more
  1. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

  2. Startup Competitive Advantages that Work

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

  4. HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default

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

  6. A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business

  7. Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

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

  9. Working at a startup sucks

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

Sports 21 stories

  1. Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police

  2. Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal

Show 6 more
  1. Applications open for Winter 2011 YC Funding, Deadline October 19

  2. Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)

  3. Extremist group tries to game Digg

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

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

  6. Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games

Technology 567 stories

  1. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

  2. My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

  3. Emerging Languages camp - day 1

Show 9 more
  1. Poll vs Epoll, once again.

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

  3. P ≠ NP

  4. Google Ceasing Development of Google Wave

  5. What's happening at Yahoo

  6. The Top Idea in Your Mind

  7. Abandoned open source projects

  8. Welcome to the new decade

  9. The Acceleration of Addictiveness

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Emacs, artist mode

  2. Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

Show 6 more
  1. Twilio Open Sources Stashboard, the Status Dashboard

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

  3. How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

  4. Fake femme fatale shows social network risks

  5. Study About IP On The Human Genome Shows That Patents Hindered Innovation

  6. Nuclear Reactor Renaissance

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