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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 6 – February 5, 2008 758 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 36 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

21 New Startups in the Valley

blog.pmarca.com · 4 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Life after Google, with millions

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What's wrong with CS research

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Books that make you dumb

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 66 stories

  1. 21 New Startups in the Valley

    blog.pmarca.com · 4 outlets

  2. Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager: "I'm sure today I would never get hired."

    nplusonemag.com · 1 outlets

  3. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Kiva.org: So sucessful it has run out of projects to fund

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. My startup: Genetic testing for CCR5 delta 32 (HIV Resistance)

    hivgene.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ethan Herdrick (Biographicon): Running a startup on Scheme.

    abstractstuff.livejour · 1 outlets

  3. Trader Made Billions on Subprime

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. I'm pretty sure these guys pitched me on an angel investment last year

    blog.pmarca.com · 1 outlets

  5. Fed cuts interest rates to 3.5%

    news.bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  6. Programming Book Profits

    ejohn.org · 1 outlets

  7. The best advice you'll ever get about building a startup

    seomoz.org · 2 outlets

  8. For those too young to remember, this is what a recession looks like

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  9. Apple stock plunges $30. Sky IS falling.

    finance.google.com · 1 outlets

  10. How to quit your job and build a startup

    shelfmade.wordpress.co · 2 outlets

Sports 25 stories

  1. PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to Write Stories (and lose weight, clean up the environment, and make a million dollars)

    oxfordamericanmag.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Drawings from an artist on LSD

    cowboybooks.com.au · 1 outlets

  4. Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  5. NBA player selling his branded shoes for $14.99. Disruptive, maybe?

    starbury.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already (dBASE IV and Vista comparison)

    garywiz.typepad.com · 1 outlets

Technology 542 stories

  1. Why Yahoo Should Say Yes To Microsoft

    news.yahoo.com · 7 outlets

  2. Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley

    blog.pmarca.com · 2 outlets

  3. Domain Registrar Network Solutions Purchases Searched Domain Names

    networksolutionssucksb · 2 outlets

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  1. plugin detects people in public photos

    blogoscoped.com · 3 outlets

  2. Digg's secret editors

    valleywag.com · 1 outlets

  3. Arc's Out

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. What Ever Happened to Code Reviews?

    wired.com · 2 outlets

  5. Richard Stallman is the new Chuck Norris

    thenewfreedom.net · 3 outlets

  6. Git is the next Unix

    advogato.org · 1 outlets

  7. How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

    groups.google.com · 1 outlets

  8. Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

    webdevelopersfieldguid · 1 outlets

  9. Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Last.fm makes music free to listen to

    blog.last.fm · 2 outlets

  2. Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES (bring a TV-B-Gone and film resulting chaos)

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tour of Justin.TV Offices

    flickr.com · 1 outlets

  4. Helvetica (the film)

    presentationzen.com · 1 outlets

  5. F8ce the music: Facebook applications are declining in popularity

    saunderslog.com · 1 outlets

  6. In Rainbows: the top-selling album in the country this week

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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