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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 1 – August 31, 2010 788 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 243 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

    Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Is Any Job Better Than No Job?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Warning Signs That Your Product Sucks

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 64 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

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

    blog.rapportive.com · 1 outlets

  3. Is Your Startup A Cash or Equity Business?

    tonywright.com · 3 outlets

  4. The Future of Startup Funding

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  2. Five new Y Combinator startups to watch

    youtube.com · 3 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 · 2 outlets

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

    ycommonapp.com · 1 outlets

  7. How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent

    maxkle.in · 1 outlets

  8. Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

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

    sachinagarwal.com · 1 outlets

  10. Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's

    money.cnn.com · 1 outlets

Sports 22 stories

  1. Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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

    bit-101.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The Illusion of Winning

    dilbert.com · 1 outlets

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

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    arandomurl.com · 1 outlets

  4. Extremist group tries to game Digg

    blogs.alternet.org · 1 outlets

  5. Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

    newscientist.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Technology 586 stories

  1. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

    blog.headius.com · 10 outlets

  2. Poll vs Epoll, once again.

    sheddingbikes.com · 2 outlets

  3. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape

    breitbart.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. How to Minimize Politics in Your Company

    blogs.hbr.org · 3 outlets

  2. What you say about others says a lot about you

    alexisohanian.com · 3 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. Why GNU grep is Fast

    lists.freebsd.org · 1 outlets

  7. Welcome to the new decade

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. A letter to my students

    blogs.berkeley.edu · 1 outlets

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

    renaebair.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels

    swarmation.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers

    invisibleoranges.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Emacs, artist mode

    cinsk.org · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gaming Foursquare with 9 lines of Perl

    compbio.cs.uic.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Rate my startup: SolidComposer - version control for musicians

    solidcomposer.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: My <canvas>-based, Photoshop-esque JavaScript color picker

    zetamac.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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