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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 25 – August 24, 2008 797 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 237 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google To Launch Venture Fund

avc.blogs.com · 2 sources

Also covering this techcrunch.comGoogle To Launch Venture Fund
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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Apple Now Worth More Than Google

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    A New, Simple Way to Salt your Hashes

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Business

    How To Demo Your Startup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 64 stories

  1. Google To Launch Venture Fund

    avc.blogs.com · 2 outlets

  2. Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. A Fundraising Survival Guide

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. Business Requirements are Bullshit

    steve-yegge.blogspot.c · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami

    slate.com · 3 outlets

  2. The real cost of starting a startup?

    37signals.blogs.com · 2 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 · 2 outlets

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

    ycstartups.com · 2 outlets

  6. "The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    linuxdevices.com · 1 outlets

  8. My Startup project: Qhoga.com

    errorkey.com · 2 outlets

  9. Series AA Equity Financing Documents

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  10. OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

    msnbc.msn.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    shoooes.net · 1 outlets

  2. Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

    voltagecreative.com · 1 outlets

  3. NFL player IQ by position

    benfry.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.zdnet.com · 1 outlets

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

    usgo.org · 1 outlets

Technology 575 stories

  1. Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

    amazon.com · 4 outlets

  2. Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

    vimeo.com · 2 outlets

  3. Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance

    skitoy.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    blog.headius.com · 2 outlets

  2. John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability

    mpt.net.nz · 3 outlets

  3. Presentation Files for OSCON 2008

    timbunce.files.wordpre · 3 outlets

  4. The Silicon Valley VC Disease

    scobleizer.com · 2 outlets

  5. Apple Now Worth More Than Google

    news.yahoo.com · 8 outlets

  6. Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You

    nukemanbill.blogspot.c · 3 outlets

  7. Start a side project, says GitHub founder

    gist.github.com · 1 outlets

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

    post-gazette.com · 1 outlets

  9. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

    aaronsw.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

    blog.wired.com · 2 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    andrewchen.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  2. The NetFlix of Junk

    futureboy.blogs.fsb.cn · 1 outlets

  3. Lisp-generated movie box office visualization

    xach.com · 1 outlets

  4. Launchbox Startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

    newscientist.com · 1 outlets

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

    tinyrevolution.com · 1 outlets

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