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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 6 – February 5, 2009 725 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 36 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 February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with an Adware Author

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What can be done with a Wii remote

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Palm announces Palm Pre at CES

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 44 stories

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

    siteanalytics.compete. · 1 outlets

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

    andrewchenblog.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Employees working on their own business

    discuss.joelonsoftware · 1 outlets

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  1. The Economy According To Mint

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why Your Startup Will Fail

    gilesbowkett.blogspot. · 1 outlets

  3. 8 "frat-boy" business ideas

    iwillteachyoutoberich. · 1 outlets

  4. Services Worth Paying For as a Startup

    emadibrahim.com · 1 outlets

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

    stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Angels flee from startup investments

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

    paulstamatiou.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.penelopetrunk.com · 1 outlets

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

    centernetworks.com · 1 outlets

  10. Change We Can Profit From: A start-up inspired by Barack Obama

    telegraph.co.uk · 2 outlets

Sports 22 stories

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

    sciam.com · 1 outlets

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

    ski-epic.com · 1 outlets

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  1. How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

    mindyourdecisions.com · 1 outlets

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

    love2d.org · 1 outlets

  3. Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download

    blog.wired.com · 1 outlets

  4. Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git

    alumnit.ca · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I.

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 572 stories

  1. Alex Payne: The Case Against Everything Buckets

    al3x.net · 2 outlets

  2. Powering a Google search

    code.google.com · 6 outlets

  3. Wikipedia list of algorithms

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Some things need to change

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout

    flownet.com · 2 outlets

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

    radian.org · 1 outlets

  4. Why Google Employees Quit

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer

    catonmat.net · 2 outlets

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

    pseudocoder.com · 1 outlets

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

    friendfeed.com · 1 outlets

  8. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

    inc.com · 1 outlets

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

    userscape.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.

    slate.com · 1 outlets

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

    frisnit.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

    crunchgear.com · 1 outlets

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

    sciencenews.org · 1 outlets

  3. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  4. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

    capitalfactory.com · 1 outlets

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

    noteflight.com · 1 outlets

  6. Youtube starts muting videos with copyrighted music

    content.scholastic.com · 2 outlets

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