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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 9 – December 9, 2008 773 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 344 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ask HN: Review my startup

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    IBM to build brain-like computers

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Business

    Lesson learned from my biggest business mistake

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Geek Pop Star (Malcolm Gladwell)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 68 stories

  1. Ask HN: Review my startup

    acruw.com · 5 outlets

  2. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

    balsamiq.com · 1 outlets

  3. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  4. Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. The End of Wall Street's Boom

    portfolio.com · 1 outlets

  2. How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

    xconomy.com · 1 outlets

  3. Lesson learned from my biggest business mistake

    mattmazur.com · 4 outlets

  4. Using an automated day trader to generate income

    fattyfatfat.com · 1 outlets

  5. Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

    diffle-history.blogspo · 1 outlets

  7. Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  8. The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

    royal.pingdom.com · 1 outlets

  9. Textbook Rentals Big Business - Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first)

    tonywright.com · 1 outlets

Sports 20 stories

  1. The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  2. The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes

    hackety.org · 1 outlets

  2. Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ender's Game Review

    plover.net · 1 outlets

  4. Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month"

    masshightech.com · 1 outlets

  5. Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game: Makes $250K profit in two months.

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  6. "LoseThos" 64-bit Open Source OS: For Programming as Entertainment

    losethos.com · 1 outlets

Technology 573 stories

  1. RubyGem is from Mars, AptGet is from Venus

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 3 outlets

  2. Insider Trading, or Political Persecution?

    online.wsj.com · 3 outlets

  3. Let's End Adolescence

    businessweek.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The High-Res Society

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

    getacoder.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

    jstn.cc · 1 outlets

  4. How people really use the iPhone

    slideshare.net · 1 outlets

  5. Python 3.0 Released

    python.org · 1 outlets

  6. The IT Contract from Hell

    itcontractor.com · 1 outlets

  7. Genetic Algorithm building a little car

    wreck.devisland.net · 1 outlets

  8. 6 Credit Card Processing Facts Nobody Tells You

    letsfreckle.com · 1 outlets

  9. News.YC Growth

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

    newteevee.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause"

    cameronmoll.com · 1 outlets

  3. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

    blogs.suntimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hulu already making more money than YouTube

    mediamemo.allthingsd.c · 1 outlets

  5. Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize

    scienceblog.com · 1 outlets

  6. Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play

    playauditorium.com · 1 outlets

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