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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 21 – August 20, 2012 824 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 233 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A Man Walks into a Bank

ft.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What I Hate About Working At Facebook

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    IPhone caused "crisis of design" at Samsung

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Khan Academy: Computer Science

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. A Man Walks into a Bank

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  2. The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

    elezea.com · 1 outlets

  3. Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

    talsraviv.com · 1 outlets

  4. App.net funded with $500,000.

    join.app.net · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Why Do Startups Do This?

    asymptomatic.net · 1 outlets

  2. Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

    slog.thestranger.com · 1 outlets

  3. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999

    andrewchen.co · 1 outlets

  4. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

    kalzumeus.com · 1 outlets

  5. A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  6. Entitlement and Acquisition

    mattgemmell.com · 1 outlets

  7. How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups

    blog.garrytan.com · 1 outlets

  8. Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

    klinger.io · 1 outlets

  9. Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  10. First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop F*cking Around

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

    blogs.valvesoftware.co · 5 outlets

  2. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

    spaceflightnow.com · 1 outlets

  2. American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics

    iamnotaprogrammer.com · 2 outlets

  3. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

    kickstarter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

    everydaypanos.com · 1 outlets

  5. This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML

    code.google.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h

    brandseenapp.com · 1 outlets

Technology 602 stories

  1. Mars Curiosity's first images

    space.com · 21 outlets

  2. Amazon Career Choice Program

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

  3. OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

    marco.org · 7 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Khan Academy: Computer Science

    ejohn.org · 5 outlets

  2. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

    fiber.google.com · 2 outlets

  3. This is how Visa works

    eduardo.intermeta.com. · 1 outlets

  4. This is a bit f'd, Quora

    giantrobotlasers.com · 1 outlets

  5. Textmate2 Goes Open Source

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Design Tip: Never Use Black

    ianstormtaylor.com · 1 outlets

  7. An Unexpected Ass Kicking

    joelrunyon.com · 1 outlets

  8. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

    daltoncaldwell.com · 1 outlets

  9. I Have 50 Dollars

    ihave50dollars.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

    markupwand.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

    blog.burnerapp.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

    nasa.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: BigVideo.js

    dfcb.github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

    vijayp.ca · 1 outlets

  4. Please turn on two-factor authentication

    mattcutts.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds

    musicforgeeksandnerds. · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

    eligibleapi.com · 1 outlets

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