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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 11 – May 18, 2007 161 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 138 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

How to scale your rails app, by Scribd (a YC startup)

Business 32 stories

  1. How to scale your rails app, by Scribd (a YC startup)

  2. YC startup Auctomatic looking to hire

  3. Eric Schmidt: "Google buys a startup once every few days"

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  1. SmugMug: Investing in a speedy site pays off for users

  2. Andrew Chen: Forget advertising - will virtual goods be the killer revenue model for Web 2.0?

  3. Google Searches for Mergers Big and Small

  4. Veotag gets 750k investment

Sports 8 stories

  1. Is your idea a winner?

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  1. Are Paul Graham and professional golfer Phil Mickelson long lost twins? (something fun for today)

  2. What are the top programming languages? The fastest growing?

  3. The Largest Rails Application Loses Ground To PHP Competitor Due to Frequent Outages

Technology 107 stories

  1. Stanford students vie to be 'Entrepreneur Idol'

  2. A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Billionaires

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  1. The Only Way is the Wrong Way

  2. The Real Story of JPG Magazine - a cautionary tale for founders

  3. Virtualmin Founder Joe Cooper Explains Y Combinator to Slashdot Trolls

  4. Make your site mobile friendly

  5. Summer Vacation

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. Truemors: A Lesson For Web2.0 Startups ... Celebrity Is Important.

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  1. Dave.TV - putting ads into videos the second a product is mentioned

  2. Web traffic impact of a TV press appearance

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