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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 10 – November 9, 2008 769 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 314 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Freemium is Not a Business Model

What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Open Source is Free Software

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    When Steve Jobs met Don Knuth

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why I Support Barack Obama

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 83 stories

  1. Freemium is Not a Business Model

  2. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

  3. Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

  4. Don't know what startup to do? Try this

Show 10 more
  1. Let G.M. go bankrupt

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

  3. Microsoft to Give Free Software to Startups

  4. Review my startup: YouIntern.com

  5. Why startup pitches fail

  6. Do I Look Like a CEO?

  7. Techies Vs. The Business

  8. The Young Man's Business Model

  9. Reduce Your Business Costs With Free Stuff

  10. Rules for startups

Sports 38 stories

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

  2. Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football

Show 6 more
  1. CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport.

  2. Windows is a Ghetto

  3. Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel prize

  4. Trying out Windows on Amazon

  5. First look at Windows 7

  6. The eyeballing game

Technology 549 stories

  1. Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo

  2. Rackspace acquire Slicehost

  3. Bill Gates' mysterious new company

Show 9 more
  1. Introducing Google Earth for iPhone

  2. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

  3. Full videos from Merbcamp 2008 now available

  4. A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

  5. Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement

  6. Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)

  7. Reflections of a YC Dropout

  8. The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

  9. Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

Entertainment 14 stories

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

  2. Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad

Show 6 more
  1. Lala May Have Just Built The Next Revolution In Digital Music

  2. The Term Paper Artist

  3. Justin.tv goes High Def

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

  5. New Google Chrome Builds Show Greasemonkey Support

  6. 1988 TV News Report on the Morris Worm

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