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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 20 – February 19, 2011 829 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 50 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Google knows about you

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Why 3D doesn't work and never will.

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 59 stories

  1. Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO

  2. Lean Startup 101 by Eric Ries: How to Build a Better Startup

  3. Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

  4. Random Startup Generator

Show 10 more
  1. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

  2. Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US

  3. Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code

  4. UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison

  5. Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?

  6. Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups

  7. Why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers?

  8. Qwiki Epitomizes the Current Startup Bubble

  9. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

  10. How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good

Sports 27 stories

  1. Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

  2. Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.

Show 6 more
  1. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

  2. UBB overturned - Canada no longer biggest internet loser.

  3. Bing search results showing up in Google

  4. Counterfeit Game Sold on Apple's App Store

  5. Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome

  6. 20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast

Technology 583 stories

  1. Does Google do "research"?

  2. Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

  3. Greplin (YC W10) Grabs $4 Million From Sequoia For Social Search

Show 9 more
  1. Towards Better Online Dating

  2. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

  3. Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text

  4. World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10)

  5. Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad

  6. Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

  7. "You've angered the hive"

  8. I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks

  9. I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch

  2. How (not) to write Factorial in Java

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable

  2. XBMC now works on Apple TV, iPad and iPhone

  3. How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night

  4. Super Awesome Sylvia shows super simple Arduino

  5. Two Factor SSH with Google Authenticator

  6. How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail

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