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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 3 – August 2, 2011 830 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 214 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Happened to the Future?

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Use Google+ to Improve Your UI

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

  2. Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book is here

  3. Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development

  4. Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: 'We Don't Want to Trade Security for Volume'

Show 10 more
  1. Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market

  2. Intellectual Ventures on This American Life

  3. Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies

  4. Why I Sold My Startup to Google

  5. Which Fish: With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat?

  6. How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K

  7. When free markets make it worse: new TLDs

  8. The Massive Mystery In Google's Finances

  9. Why we’re building a boring business (and you should too)

  10. reddit gold, one year later (spoiler: the naysayers were wrong)

Sports 29 stories

  1. Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better

  2. Google Labs Winding Down

Show 6 more
  1. Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive

  2. Game of Thrones CGI

  3. A game with a windfall for a knowing few

  4. Flame from Bill Gates Re: Windows Usability

  5. Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t

  6. Google Loses Access to Twitter Stream, Suspends Realtime Search

Technology 611 stories

  1. Are Software Patents Evil? (2006)

  2. Illustrated: Apple's Fear of Android

  3. Build your own operating system

Show 9 more
  1. Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 2

  2. Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

  3. Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned

  4. Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.

  5. 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto

  6. Bored People Quit

  7. A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

  8. An iOS Developer Takes on Android

  9. You are not running out of time

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Netflix for baby clothes

  2. Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love

Show 6 more
  1. Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)

  2. "Very bold or very dumb": data caps don't apply to ISP's own movie service

  3. Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

  4. Anonymous hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, US military contractor, 90k logins dumped

  5. RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

  6. Netflix introduces new plans and price changes

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