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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 1 – January 31, 2009 724 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 31 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million)

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What can be done with a Wii remote

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Palm announces Palm Pre at CES

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Interview with an Adware Author

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million)

  2. Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants

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

  4. Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

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  1. Employees working on their own business

  2. Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan

  3. The Economy According To Mint

  4. Why Your Startup Will Fail

  5. Services Worth Paying For as a Startup

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

  7. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

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

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

  10. Virgin America goes Slinkset...$25k going to a Boston non-profit

Sports 22 stories

  1. Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation

  2. How we roll in Amsterdam - A method of transportation you should use too

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  1. LÖVE - a 2D game engine for rapid game development in Lua

  2. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download

  3. Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing

  4. Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git

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

  6. Coding Horror: Finishing The Game

Technology 563 stories

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

  2. Firefox: An Acceptable Cross Platform GUI Toolkit

  3. Powering a Google search

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  1. Wikipedia list of algorithms

  2. Some things need to change

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

  4. Why Google Employees Quit

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

  6. Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

  7. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

  8. How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage

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

Entertainment 20 stories

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

  2. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

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  1. Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus

  2. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

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

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

  5. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

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

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