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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 16 – March 18, 2009 809 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 12 · Issue 77 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Faking votes on Hacker News

    12 of 30 days · 16 articles

  2. Technology

    How Google and Facebook are using R

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Things you may not know about jQuery

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 66 stories

  1. Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

  2. Startups in 13 Sentences

  3. Building A Startup From Scratch With No Money

  4. How Not to Pitch to a Startup

Show 10 more
  1. Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots

  2. Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

  3. Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue

  4. How to Be an Angel Investor

  5. Training Rats as Traders

  6. If my startup fails, this is my cover letter for my next employer

  7. Joel Spolsky: A new business is like a shortwave radio.

  8. Tarsnap reaches profitability

  9. Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text

  10. What the Stock Market Really Thinks About the Economy

Sports 32 stories

  1. How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders

  2. So Here's How Many Games I Sell - Indie Game Developer Story

Show 6 more
  1. HTML 5 Canvas game

  2. How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff?

  3. Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

  4. Voxli (YC W09) Targets Gamers With Browser-Based Group Voice Chat

  5. Dolphins blowing bubble rings, and playing with them [video]

  6. Flower is the only video game I've played that made me feel relaxed, peaceful, and happy

Technology 581 stories

  1. Doug Lenat – I was positively impressed with Wolfram Alpha

  2. PyML: machine learning in Python

  3. Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

Show 9 more
  1. Google announces Google Voice

  2. Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

  3. Building Quake Live : John Carmack

  4. Releasing early and often... how it failed for us [extended version]

  5. Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

  6. Faking votes on Hacker News

  7. How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

  8. The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad

  9. The History of Erlang's Innards [pdf]

Entertainment 22 stories

  1. Why TV Lost

  2. Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

Show 6 more
  1. Erlang - The Movie

  2. Can a musician sell their music online?

  3. Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie, "Transcendent Man"

  4. Justin.tv - Paul Graham at AngelConf

  5. Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further

  6. Beautiful Full Length Movie Released under Creative Commons

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