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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 10 – September 9, 2010 802 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 252 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    2006 Google versus 2010 Google on Net Neutrality.

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Some lesser-known truths about programming

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Jason Fried: The Truth About Real Estate

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

  2. Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

  3. Getting Your Startup Noticed and Covered by Blogs

  4. How a startup responds when a giant arrives

Show 10 more
  1. Five new Y Combinator startups to watch

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

  3. Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg

  4. HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default

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

  6. Matt Cutts gives you a free startup idea

  7. How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent

  8. Are your pants lying to you? An investigation

  9. Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's

  10. What A CEO Does

Sports 23 stories

  1. Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"

  2. Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

Show 6 more
  1. Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal

  2. The Illusion of Winning

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

  4. Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

  5. Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work

  6. Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey

Technology 617 stories

  1. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

  2. Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator

  3. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape

Show 9 more
  1. How to Minimize Politics in Your Company

  2. What's happening at Yahoo

  3. Bribing maitre d' to skip the line

  4. Why GNU grep is Fast

  5. Welcome to the new decade

  6. A letter to my students

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

  8. Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph

  9. Rails 3.0: It's ready

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels

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

Show 6 more
  1. NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company

  2. As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

  3. Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.

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

  5. Gaming Foursquare with 9 lines of Perl

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

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