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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 2 – January 1, 2011 797 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 1 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's really wrong with BlackBerry

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    When Free Software isn't better

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

  2. Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC

  3. Startup Title Junk

  4. Dead End Jobs: Are You Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

Show 10 more
  1. Build apps not businesses.

  2. Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink

  3. How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup

  4. Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

  5. A Chrome extension to avoid the Stack Overflow ripoffs

  6. Why Businesses Can’t Stand Free Markets

  7. 10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire

  8. How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea

  9. AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me

  10. The DC Startup Community

Sports 23 stories

  1. Winning Isn't Normal

  2. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

Show 6 more
  1. Close the Washington Monument

  2. Impact HTML5 Game Engine released

  3. Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter"

  4. The MacGyver Approach to Winter Biking (Zip Ties)

  5. Today's Coding Interview Game

  6. How the Gun on the Original Duck Hunt Game Worked

Technology 628 stories

  1. Navy Sets World Record With Rail Gun

  2. Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

  3. Introducing Word Lens

Show 9 more
  1. Today you, tomorrow me

  2. Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (YC W10)

  3. Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

  4. Sacked by a Google algorithm

  5. Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

  6. Google Engineer bails out student in jail

  7. What it's like to be the SO of a start-up founder.

  8. The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby

  9. Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. Show HN: Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)

  2. Netflix: Culture of Fear

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS

  2. How to Become a Software Contractor

  3. Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

  4. "Space Jam" movie website, untouched since 1996

  5. Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

  6. Minecraft developer streaming live while coding

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