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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 20 – August 19, 2008 814 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 232 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google To Launch Venture Fund

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    10 MySQL variables that you should monitor

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple Now Worth More Than Google

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    Don't Do What Your Users Say

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 72 stories

  1. Google To Launch Venture Fund

  2. Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

  3. A Fundraising Survival Guide

  4. Business Requirements are Bullshit

Show 10 more
  1. What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami

  2. The real cost of starting a startup?

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

  4. Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios

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

  6. Xobni VP Engineering leaves for own startup

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

  8. My Startup project: Qhoga.com

  9. Series AA Equity Financing Documents

  10. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

Sports 34 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

  2. Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

Show 6 more
  1. NFL player IQ by position

  2. Picwing (YC Summer 08) Debuts Their Social Digital Picture Frame

  3. Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile

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

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

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

Technology 577 stories

  1. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

  2. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

  3. Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means

Show 9 more
  1. John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability

  2. Presentation Files for OSCON 2008

  3. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

  4. Apple Now Worth More Than Google

  5. GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself

  6. Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

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

  8. The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides

  9. Why S3 went down

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless

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

Show 6 more
  1. Google Insights shows what sites are mainstream and which ones are still early adopter

  2. The NetFlix of Junk

  3. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

  4. Launchbox Startups

  5. What's Wrong with Western Music? Part III. "Passacaglia in Cm"

  6. Justin.TV Reaches 1 Million Users

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