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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 13 – February 12, 2008 751 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 43 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

    What happened to Altavista?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Steve Jobs keynote speech leaked?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    In Defense Of Computer Science

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 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. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

    flownet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. 2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH

    startupschool.org · 1 outlets

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

    hivgene.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Nightmare Lunch With Your Venture Capitalist

    clubenetwork.com · 2 outlets

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

    abstractstuff.livejour · 1 outlets

  6. Trader Made Billions on Subprime

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.pmarca.com · 1 outlets

  8. Fed cuts interest rates to 3.5%

    news.bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  9. Programming Book Profits

    ejohn.org · 1 outlets

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

    seomoz.org · 2 outlets

Sports 23 stories

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

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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  1. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    oxfordamericanmag.com · 1 outlets

  3. Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  5. Windows Firewall [Pic]

    severeshock.com · 1 outlets

  6. Drawings from an artist on LSD

    cowboybooks.com.au · 1 outlets

Technology 544 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

    news.yahoo.com · 14 outlets

  2. Silicon Valley Arrogance

    blog.pmarca.com · 4 outlets

  3. Steve Jobs praises a retiring Bill Gates

    gaborcselle.com · 5 outlets

Show 9 more

  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 happened to Altavista?

    wired.com · 4 outlets

  5. Richard Stallman is the new Chuck Norris

    thenewfreedom.net · 2 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. Arc Ported to JavaScript

    halogen.note.amherst.e · 1 outlets

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. YC Startup Going into Beta: Reble.FM Music Sharing

    reble.fm · 1 outlets

  2. Last.fm makes music free to listen to

    blog.last.fm · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Consumption stats show the gap between rich and poor is less than most assume

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Tour of Justin.TV Offices

    flickr.com · 1 outlets

  5. Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)

    thefeelgood.com · 1 outlets

  6. Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million?

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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