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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 25 – June 24, 2008 729 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 26 · Issue 176 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Diary of a Failed Startup

diffle-history.blogspo · 2 sources

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    This Is Not Your Daddy's OS

    11 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    How Google Measures Search Quality

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    10 Rules of User Experience (Google)

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Diary of a Failed Startup

    diffle-history.blogspo · 2 outlets

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

    dabbleboard.com · 2 outlets

  3. Things I've learned from running a business (ie: Don't do what I did)

    episteme.arstechnica.c · 1 outlets

  4. How not to approach an investor

    ricksegal.typepad.com · 1 outlets

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  1. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. 37Signals' "37BetterBank", circa 1998, is still better than my bank's interface from 2008

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  3. Startup Tip: How I grew Mint's waiting list to 20,000+

    okdork.com · 1 outlets

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

    flaptor.com · 2 outlets

  5. My Business Magazines Lied to Me

    coconutheadsets.com · 1 outlets

  6. How to Promote Startups

    aaronsw.com · 1 outlets

  7. How Crocs Rakes in Revenues From Ugly Shoes

    businesspundit.com · 1 outlets

  8. The Business of XKCD

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    selfmademinds.com · 1 outlets

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

    jeffspost.wordpress.co · 1 outlets

Sports 21 stories

  1. Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

    rocksolidarcade.com · 1 outlets

  2. 280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Yahoo loses key mysql developer

    jeremy.zawodny.com · 1 outlets

  2. 'Duke Nukem Forever' Gameplay Video

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

  3. Skills shortage hits games firms

    news.bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Students Fail -- and Professor Loses Job

    insidehighered.com · 1 outlets

  5. Wine 1.0 released

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

  6. Next Generation Wind Turbine Breaks $1/Watt Barrier

    solveclimate.com · 1 outlets

Technology 540 stories

  1. Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote (in 60 Seconds)

    mahalodaily.com · 3 outlets

  2. LinkedIn Architecture

    cookiesareforclosers.c · 2 outlets

  3. Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community

    collison.ie · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Next version of Mac OS X: Snow Leopard

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 3 outlets

  2. Techcrunch video project: Elevator Pitches

    centernetworks.com · 2 outlets

  3. Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

    timesonline.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. How Google Measures Search Quality

    techcrunch.com · 7 outlets

  5. The Future of Email: From SMTP to XMPP

    anarchogeek.com · 2 outlets

  6. Congrats to PG on getting hitched

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. Reddit Makes Their Code Open Source

    blog.reddit.com · 3 outlets

  8. Cities and Ambition

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  9. Done, and Gets Things Smart

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Robbery caught on JTV

    blog.justin.tv · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass

    blogmaverick.com · 1 outlets

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

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  3. Top 100 Advertisers Shifted $1 Billion To the Web Last Year At The Expense Of TV And Newspapers

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Pondering the nature of artistic genius, a social scientist finds that creativity has a bottom line

    smithsonianmag.com · 1 outlets

  5. Spore Leaked And Being Broadcast Live (Web 2 + Gaming)

    ustream.tv · 1 outlets

  6. When Do Post-Humans Show Up?

    tierneylab.blogs.nytim · 1 outlets

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