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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 15 – June 14, 2008 717 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 24 · Issue 166 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Andrew Chen: Why every Web 2.0 startup needs to think about Metcalfe's Law

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    How Google Measures Search Quality

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Andrew Chen: Why every Web 2.0 startup needs to think about Metcalfe's Law

  2. It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup

  3. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

  4. 37Signals' "37BetterBank", circa 1998, is still better than my bank's interface from 2008

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. How to Promote Startups

  4. How Crocs Rakes in Revenues From Ugly Shoes

  5. Detailed revenue breakdown of a gadget blog ($61k in dec 2007)

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

  7. How "Why Startups Fail" Fails

  8. Warren Buffet: How to Minimize Investment Returns

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

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

Sports 18 stories

  1. 280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08)

  2. Yahoo loses key mysql developer

Show 6 more
  1. 'Duke Nukem Forever' Gameplay Video

  2. Students Fail -- and Professor Loses Job

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

  4. Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

  5. I spent a week building a game on AppEngine. Here's what I learned.

  6. The Numbers Are In, Live Video Online Is Blowing Up

Technology 542 stories

  1. Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote (in 60 Seconds)

  2. LinkedIn Architecture

  3. Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community

Show 9 more
  1. Next version of Mac OS X: Snow Leopard

  2. Techcrunch video project: Elevator Pitches

  3. How Google Measures Search Quality

  4. Congrats to PG on getting hitched

  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. Woz hacks Kathy Griffin's iPhone...on TV

  2. Hulu - Start-Up Junkies episodes

  3. Three levels of addressing the Netflix Prize

  4. When Do Post-Humans Show Up?

  5. My First Brush with the Music Industry

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

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