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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 20 – August 19, 2010 778 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 231 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

techcrunch.com · 2 sources

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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

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News User Base Changed?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 64 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

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

    catonmat.net · 1 outlets

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

    blog.rapportive.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Future of Startup Funding

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

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

    peterc.org · 1 outlets

  3. A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

    blog.asmartbear.com · 1 outlets

  4. HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default

    html5boilerplate.com · 1 outlets

  5. Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    ycommonapp.com · 1 outlets

  7. A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent

    maxkle.in · 1 outlets

  9. Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

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

    sachinagarwal.com · 1 outlets

Sports 20 stories

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

    bit-101.com · 1 outlets

  2. Applications open for Winter 2011 YC Funding, Deadline October 19

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    arandomurl.com · 1 outlets

  2. Extremist group tries to game Digg

    blogs.alternet.org · 1 outlets

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

    developer.apple.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. EVE player destroys over $1000 worth of game time

    massively.com · 1 outlets

  6. Skype Loses Engineering Chief (possibly due to TechCrunch commenters?)

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 585 stories

  1. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

    blog.headius.com · 8 outlets

  2. Emerging Languages camp - day 1

    olabini.com · 4 outlets

  3. Poll vs Epoll, once again.

    sheddingbikes.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Practical Tips on Starting Your Own Company

    blogs.hbr.org · 3 outlets

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

    alexisohanian.com · 4 outlets

  3. P ≠ NP

    scribd.com · 1 outlets

  4. Google Ceasing Development of Google Wave

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 4 outlets

  5. What's happening at Yahoo

    paulgraham.com · 2 outlets

  6. The Top Idea in Your Mind

    paulgraham.com · 3 outlets

  7. Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

  8. Welcome to the new decade

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Acceleration of Addictiveness

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Emacs, artist mode

    cinsk.org · 1 outlets

  2. Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

    support.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Twilio Open Sources Stashboard, the Status Dashboard

    blog.twilio.com · 1 outlets

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

    ms-studio.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Fake femme fatale shows social network risks

    computerworld.com · 1 outlets

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

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  6. Nuclear Reactor Renaissance

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

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