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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 11 – February 10, 2009 731 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 41 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with an Adware Author

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Google opens Jaiku source code

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Should developers worry about ageism?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

  2. Why Your Startup Will Fail

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

  2. Employees working on their own business

  3. The Economy According To Mint

  4. 8 "frat-boy" business ideas

  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. Snaptalent relaunches - completely changes business model (YC W08)

  8. Mint CEO on how to build a startup

  9. Angels flee from startup investments

  10. Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

Sports 25 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

Show 6 more
  1. How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery

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

  3. Tracking an entire Windows sytem inside Git

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

  5. How to game the U.S. higher-education system

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

Technology 560 stories

  1. Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients

  2. Google AJAX API Playground

  3. Wikipedia list of algorithms

Show 9 more
  1. Some things need to change

  2. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout

  3. Keep Your Identity Small

  4. Why Google Employees Quit

  5. Should developers worry about ageism?

  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 17 stories

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

  2. Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

Show 6 more
  1. Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus

  2. Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"

  3. Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

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

  5. Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows

  6. Youtube starts muting videos with copyrighted music

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