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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 15 – August 14, 2011 828 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 226 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Build your own operating system

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What's Special About Lisp?

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Facebook blocks Google+ ads

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

  2. Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger

  3. Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign

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

Show 10 more
  1. HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 released

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

  3. Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake

  4. Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in?

  5. An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People

  6. Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market

  7. Groupon updates IPO filing, admits it's unprofitable

  8. Intellectual Ventures on This American Life

  9. Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies

  10. Federal Register API

Sports 34 stories

  1. United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P

  2. 5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk

Show 6 more
  1. Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better

  2. Redesigning the browser window

  3. Winter is coming

  4. Google Labs Winding Down

  5. Google releases Games for Google+

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

Technology 607 stories

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

  2. When patents attack Android

  3. Illustrated: Apple's Fear of Android

Show 9 more
  1. Build your own operating system

  2. Notch defends his previous statement calling Euclideon a scam

  3. Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

  4. Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

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

  6. JavaScript Creator Says the Language Wasn't Just Dumb Luck

  7. 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto

  8. Jonathan's Card shut down

  9. An iOS Developer Takes on Android

Entertainment 26 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. Show HN: I built an app to improve your Vocabulary

  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. Show HN: I shipped my first product

  5. Show HN: Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.

  6. Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application

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