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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 25 – February 24, 2008 714 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 55 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Yahoo-Microsoft merger bad news for startups?

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Heroku | the Ruby on Rails Podcast

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Business

    Ask YC: feedback on my startup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Silicon Valley Arrogance

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Yahoo-Microsoft merger bad news for startups?

  2. The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

  3. "I did my part by reading about virtualization in a trade journal. Now you do the software part"

  4. An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

Show 10 more
  1. Press for Startups: 10 tips

  2. Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

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

  4. Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

  5. 2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH

  6. US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

  7. The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get... From Google

  8. The Nightmare Lunch With Your Venture Capitalist

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

  10. Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups

Sports 24 stories

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

  2. TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

Show 6 more
  1. Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

  2. (YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

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

  4. This isn’t a zero-sum game

  5. Windows Firewall [Pic]

  6. The Art and Science of JavaScript Games

Technology 523 stories

  1. Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

  2. Bill Gates demos Xobni

  3. plugin detects people in public photos

Show 9 more
  1. Dr. Dobb's | Lean Programming II

  2. Arc's Out

  3. "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony"

  4. Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote

  5. PG on trolls

  6. Don't Become a Scientist.

  7. Git is the next Unix

  8. How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

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

Entertainment 13 stories

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

  2. Electron Caught On Film For The First Time

Show 6 more
  1. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

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

  3. Launchbox, a YC clone, is now ready to take applications

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

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

  6. Temporal map of the movie "Primer"

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