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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 10 – June 9, 2008 710 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 24 · Issue 161 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Andrew Chen: Getting your startup from zero to critical mass

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Inspirational books from a CS professor

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Twitter All Your Bash Commands

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

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

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

  3. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

  4. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

Show 10 more
  1. Startup Tip: How I grew Mint's waiting list to 20,000+

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

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

  4. How "Why Startups Fail" Fails

  5. Apple’s market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%

  6. Finally, Real-Time Stock Quotes at Yahoo-- For Free

  7. What's the real Federal Deficit?

  8. James Simons: former mathematician and now billionaire hedge fund manager

  9. Insanity? Why A Bootstrap Entrepreneur Raised $17 Million in Venture Funding

  10. The 5 Biggest Interview Mistakes Startups Make

Sports 22 stories

  1. 280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08)

  2. 'Duke Nukem Forever' Gameplay Video

Show 6 more
  1. Students Fail -- and Professor Loses Job

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

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

  4. Peter Molyneux: My Next Game a 'Significant Scientific Achievement'

  5. Lisp Wins (Steve Yegge article)

  6. Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

Technology 541 stories

  1. Dynamic Languages Strike Back

  2. LinkedIn Architecture

  3. Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

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  1. Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community

  2. Techcrunch video project: Elevator Pitches

  3. Congrats to PG on getting hitched

  4. Lies We Tell Kids

  5. Cities and Ambition

  6. PG: Disconnecting Distraction

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

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

  9. When did we forget our dreams?

Entertainment 12 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show, Don't Tell

  2. Hulu - Start-Up Junkies episodes

  3. Three levels of addressing the Netflix Prize

  4. Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience

  5. My First Brush with the Music Industry

  6. Hey Internet, it’s time to show a token of gratitude.

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