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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 18 – March 20, 2009 807 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 12 · Issue 79 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

electronista.com · 3 sources

Also covering this gs.statcounter.comFirefox achieves 100% market share in over 14% of continents tgdaily.comApple's Safari hits 10% browser market share
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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Faking votes on Hacker News

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Building Communities with Software

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    How Google and Facebook are using R

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 67 stories

  1. Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

    electronista.com · 3 outlets

  2. Startups in 13 Sentences

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. Building A Startup From Scratch With No Money

    axonflux.com · 2 outlets

  4. How Not to Pitch to a Startup

    particletree.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    cringely.com · 1 outlets

  2. Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

    eastbayexpress.com · 1 outlets

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

    streamingcolour.com · 1 outlets

  4. How to Be an Angel Investor

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  5. Training Rats as Traders

    sites.google.com · 1 outlets

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

    killall.dashnine.org · 1 outlets

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

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Tarsnap reaches profitability

    daemonology.net · 1 outlets

  9. Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text

    gist.github.com · 2 outlets

  10. The Startup Myth

    sixmonthmba.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

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

    fourhourworkweek.com · 1 outlets

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

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. HTML 5 Canvas game

    benjoffe.com · 1 outlets

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

    37signals.com · 1 outlets

  3. Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

    web.mit.edu · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    metacafe.com · 1 outlets

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

    slate.com · 1 outlets

Technology 574 stories

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

    twine.com · 3 outlets

  2. PyML: machine learning in Python

    pyml.sourceforge.net · 4 outlets

  3. Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

    blog.wired.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Google announces Google Voice

    labnol.org · 3 outlets

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

    divvyshot.com · 2 outlets

  3. Building Quake Live : John Carmack

    gamasutra.com · 2 outlets

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

    behindtheclock.timmyon · 1 outlets

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

    blog.last.fm · 1 outlets

  6. Faking votes on Hacker News

    paulgraham.com · 9 outlets

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

    bret.appspot.com · 1 outlets

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

    etherpad.com · 1 outlets

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

    contekst.org · 2 outlets

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. Why TV Lost

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

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

    dabuttonfactory.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Erlang - The Movie

    lambda-the-ultimate.or · 1 outlets

  2. Can a musician sell their music online?

    zedshaw.com · 1 outlets

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

    transcendentman.com · 1 outlets

  4. Justin.tv - Paul Graham at AngelConf

    justin.tv · 1 outlets

  5. Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

  6. Beautiful Full Length Movie Released under Creative Commons

    sitasingstheblues.com · 1 outlets

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