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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 23 – August 22, 2010 773 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 234 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

    What's wrong with 1975 programming

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Experimenting with Node.js

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 63 stories

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

  2. 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

  3. The Future of Startup Funding

  4. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

Show 10 more
  1. Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot

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

  3. HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default

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

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

  6. How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent

  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. How to Build a Data-Driven Startup

Sports 20 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)

  2. Extremist group tries to game Digg

  3. Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

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

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

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

Technology 578 stories

  1. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

  2. Poll vs Epoll, once again.

  3. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape

Show 9 more
  1. Practical Tips on Starting Your Own Company

  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. Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects

  7. Welcome to the new decade

  8. The Acceleration of Addictiveness

  9. "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Emacs, artist mode

  2. Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

Show 6 more
  1. Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies

  2. Teevox (YC S10) Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control

  3. Gaming Foursquare with 9 lines of Perl

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

  5. Fake femme fatale shows social network risks

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

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