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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 29 – November 5, 2008 155 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 310 Get it by email ↓
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How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

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Business 15 stories

  1. How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

  2. Review my startup - Plura Processing: Web Traffic = Grid Computer

  3. Why startup pitches fail

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  1. Highest funded US Startups from 2006 to 2008

  2. Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share for First Time Ever

  3. Official Google Blog: What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud

  4. US appeals court rejects business method patents

Sports 8 stories

  1. Weebly (YC winter 07) scores 1 million users, reaches profitability

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  1. Sports stats, scores, and analysis

  2. Skateboards, Wine, and Stuffed Animals: 10 Things Print On Demand can do now.

  3. OLED Screen So Flexible and Thin it Blows in the Wind

Technology 124 stories

  1. Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

  2. Follow Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free

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  1. Mr. Benioff, Tear Down That Wall

  2. Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend

  3. Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56

  4. Tell HN: Our YC Interview Story and Advice

  5. Secret message in source code of Digg

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. Flickr reverse engineers the shapes of continents, countries, cities, and neighborhoods.

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  1. MySpace, Auditude, And MTV Have Just Figured Out How To Monetize Online Video

  2. 1988 TV News Report on the Morris Worm

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