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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 1 – May 31, 2008 704 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 152 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Andrew Chen: Getting your startup from zero to critical mass

andrewchen.typepad.com · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Omnisio: Slide-Sync Tool Launched

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. Andrew Chen: Getting your startup from zero to critical mass

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  2. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

    gabrielweinberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck

    dabbleboard.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Coolest Business Plan Ever

    ricksegal.typepad.com · 1 outlets

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  1. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

    groups.google.com · 1 outlets

  4. VC Funding Spelled Backwards

    mattmaroon.com · 1 outlets

  5. Twitter’s business model is to sell the company

    flaptor.com · 2 outlets

  6. Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Tipjoy: Why Didn't it Take Off? Pathology of a Floundering Web 2.0 Startup

    jeffspost.wordpress.co · 1 outlets

  8. How "Why Startups Fail" Fails

    vcdave.com · 2 outlets

  9. Multi-millionaire startup founder throws 29th birthday party...with 300 homeless people

    mercurynews.com · 1 outlets

  10. So I went to Startup School

    timtrueman.com · 2 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Game’s high score could earn the Nobel

    uwnews.org · 1 outlets

  2. uWink: A Cold Greasy Plate of Fail

    lemonodor.com · 1 outlets

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  1. TechCrunch: Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    scribd.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Students Fail -- and Professor Loses Job

    insidehighered.com · 1 outlets

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

    alleyinsider.com · 1 outlets

  6. Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

Technology 526 stories

  1. Dynamic Languages Strike Back

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 2 outlets

  2. Yahoo, Microsoft Back At The Table

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  3. Evan Williams: Twitter not abandoning Rails

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

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  1. Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

    whydoeseverythingsuck. · 2 outlets

  2. Lies We Tell Kids

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. Cities and Ambition

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. PG: Disconnecting Distraction

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

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

    discussionleader.hbsp. · 1 outlets

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

    johannhari.com · 2 outlets

  7. Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  8. When did we forget our dreams?

    xkcd.com · 1 outlets

  9. Processing ported to JavaScript

    ejohn.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. The day the music died

    diveintomark.org · 1 outlets

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

    blog.reddit.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    refactormycode.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show, Don't Tell

    weblog.raganwald.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google Launches TV Advertising

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

  4. My No TV

    osteele.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hulu - Start-Up Junkies episodes

    hulu.com · 1 outlets

  6. Three levels of addressing the Netflix Prize

    hunch.net · 1 outlets

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