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2008-05-24
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 24 – May 24, 2008 724 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 145 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. Technology

    Praise as good as cash to brain

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Omnisio: Slide-Sync Tool Launched

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Business

    So I went to Startup School

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 61 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. Start a business, not a startup

Show 10 more
  1. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

  2. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

  3. How to Make Convincing Fake-Gold Bars

  4. Wigix: A Stock Market for Your Stuff

  5. VC Funding Spelled Backwards

  6. The Startup Curve

  7. Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop

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

  9. Startup Bootstrap Funding: Unemployment

  10. How "Why Startups Fail" Fails

Sports 24 stories

  1. Game’s high score could earn the Nobel

  2. uWink: A Cold Greasy Plate of Fail

Show 6 more
  1. TechCrunch: Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly

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

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

  4. Google's search business to be bigger than Windows

  5. Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester

  6. After the boomers, meet the children dubbed 'baby losers'

Technology 532 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. PG: Disconnecting Distraction

  6. Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

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

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

  9. Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. The day the music died

  2. YourWeek: a reddit-powered TV news program by PBS

Show 6 more
  1. Want to see how efficient your code is? Have it refactored.

  2. Show, Don't Tell

  3. Google Launches TV Advertising

  4. My No TV

  5. Hulu - Start-Up Junkies episodes

  6. Django: queryset-refactor branch merged into trunk

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