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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 10 – August 9, 2008 795 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 222 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google To Launch Venture Fund

avc.blogs.com · 2 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why Won't Google Video Just Die?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Is This The Future Of Search?

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    10 MySQL variables that you should monitor

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 69 stories

  1. Google To Launch Venture Fund

    avc.blogs.com · 2 outlets

  2. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

    ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  3. A Fundraising Survival Guide

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. Profitable After 3 Weeks

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. The real cost of starting a startup?

    37signals.blogs.com · 2 outlets

  2. Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

    stephfinch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them

    smartnow.com · 1 outlets

  4. Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  5. 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

    ycstartups.com · 3 outlets

  6. Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup

    gaborcselle.com · 2 outlets

  7. Tiny open source computer made from six ICs (hardware startup)

    linuxdevices.com · 1 outlets

  8. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. Why I'm Not Working on my Startup (yet)

    foohack.com · 1 outlets

  10. YouNoodle Startup Predictor now live to try it for yourself.

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

    scarybuggames.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. NFL player IQ by position

    benfry.com · 1 outlets

  2. History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player in 9-stone game

    usgo.org · 1 outlets

  3. Why Apple didn't use X for the window system

    developers.slashdot.or · 1 outlets

  4. Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Founders on Passing the Hat

    gigaom.com · 2 outlets

  5. Yuil vs. Cuil - The hack wins hands down...

    laserlike.com · 1 outlets

  6. Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawing to 12 perfect pen strokes

    artyfactory.com · 1 outlets

Technology 574 stories

  1. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

    skitoy.com · 2 outlets

  2. Live fulltext search in Ruby on Rails

    pullmonkey.com · 3 outlets

  3. John Gruber: The App Store, Day One

    mpt.net.nz · 3 outlets

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  1. Presentation Files for OSCON 2008

    timbunce.files.wordpre · 3 outlets

  2. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

    scobleizer.com · 4 outlets

  3. Is This The Future Of Search?

    news.yahoo.com · 6 outlets

  4. 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia

    thenextweb.org · 4 outlets

  5. Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

    nukemanbill.blogspot.c · 4 outlets

  6. Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

    post-gazette.com · 1 outlets

  7. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

  8. Why S3 went down

    status.aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

  9. Calvin and Jobs (comic)

    farm4.static.flickr.co · 1 outlets

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The NetFlix of Junk

    futureboy.blogs.fsb.cn · 1 outlets

  2. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

    xach.com · 1 outlets

  3. Launchbox Startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Justin.TV Reaches 1 Million Users

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Blender: far from a toy, it can produce beautiful 3D images and movies (and it's free)

    blender.org · 1 outlets

  6. Inside the Lego Factory

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

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