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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 21 – May 21, 2008 742 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 142 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

What They Don't Tell You About Starting a Startup

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Business

    So I went to Startup School

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Praise as good as cash to brain

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Omnisio: Slide-Sync Tool Launched

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 68 stories

  1. What They Don't Tell You About Starting a Startup

  2. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

  3. The Coolest Business Plan Ever

  4. A list of deals one VC firm passed on -- Google, eBay, Apple, Intel, Fedex, Paypal, etc.

Show 10 more
  1. Start a business, not a startup

  2. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

  3. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

  4. How to Make Convincing Fake-Gold Bars

  5. Amazon Web Services: New Release of ElasticFox

  6. Wigix: A Stock Market for Your Stuff

  7. VC Funding Spelled Backwards

  8. The Startup Curve

  9. Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop

  10. The end is near: Henry Blodget's index of companies that don't make products and don't have revenues

Sports 27 stories

  1. Game Changing Android Application

  2. Game’s high score could earn the Nobel

Show 6 more
  1. Philip Greenspun: It's not just programmers who can inflate their LOC counts

  2. Game Theory Explains the Eligible-Bachelor Paradox

  3. uWink: A Cold Greasy Plate of Fail

  4. TechCrunch: Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly

  5. Scribd Launches "Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest" - Win a MacBook Air

  6. Game development with Lisp, how to acquire knowledge (from manuals), and other random thoughts

Technology 529 stories

  1. Dynamic Languages Strike Back

  2. Yahoo, Microsoft Back At The Table

  3. Evan Williams: Twitter not abandoning Rails

Show 9 more
  1. Interview with Donald Knuth

  2. Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

  3. Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi

  4. Lies We Tell Kids

  5. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

  6. PG: Disconnecting Distraction

  7. Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

  8. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too

  9. The Frontal Cortex : The Hidden Cost of Smart Drugs

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. The day the music died

  2. Show, Don't Tell

Show 6 more
  1. Google Launches TV Advertising

  2. My No TV

  3. Django: queryset-refactor branch merged into trunk

  4. Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?

  5. Get more out of your Netflix subscription

  6. Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience

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