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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 21 – January 20, 2009 739 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 20 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

joelonsoftware.com · 1 sources

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Powering a Google search

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What I Learned This Year

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

    joelonsoftware.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included)

    andrewchenblog.com · 1 outlets

  3. Mibbit: One year old, and profitable

    blog.mibbit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

    philip.greenspun.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Startup lessons from serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Startup now 100% on AWS (they're using AMQP, PostgreSQL, pgpool-II and Rails)

    aws.typepad.com · 1 outlets

  4. More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development

    stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  5. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

    paulstamatiou.com · 1 outlets

  6. Things to consider before launching a startup (or) Sometimes it's not so fun

    blog.penelopetrunk.com · 1 outlets

  7. For all of you small business owners, you can relate to this

    fivemilliondots.com · 1 outlets

  8. Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability: A Web 1.0 Comparison

    centernetworks.com · 1 outlets

  9. More about Google's commodity servers

    eetimes.com · 1 outlets

  10. Foiled: Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Stolen-Data Black Market

    wired.com · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

  1. How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (by the World of Goo people)

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

  2. Trolling To Win: Can trolling work better than asking for help?

    bash.org · 2 outlets

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  1. Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon

    2dboy.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download

    blog.wired.com · 1 outlets

  3. Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing

    xobni.com · 1 outlets

  4. "Text editors should take a lesson from video games."

    ozmm.org · 1 outlets

  5. Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09)

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Coding Horror: Finishing The Game

    codinghorror.com · 2 outlets

Technology 573 stories

  1. Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All

    radar.oreilly.com · 2 outlets

  2. Firefox: An Acceptable Cross Platform GUI Toolkit

    ynniv.com · 2 outlets

  3. A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...

    radian.org · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Why Google Employees Quit

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. So you want to be a consultant?

    unixwiz.net · 1 outlets

  3. How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008

    pseudocoder.com · 1 outlets

  4. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

    inc.com · 2 outlets

  5. The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective

    semyon.com · 1 outlets

  6. Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

    github.com · 1 outlets

  7. The nicest math book I own

    math-blog.com · 1 outlets

  8. The 37signals Effect

    lbrandy.com · 1 outlets

  9. Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

    ibm.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar

    frisnit.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

    crunchgear.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  2. Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free

    readwriteweb.com · 1 outlets

  4. Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser

    noteflight.com · 1 outlets

  5. Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  6. Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

    mugasha.com · 1 outlets

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