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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 23 – March 25, 2009 803 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 84 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

    Building Communities with Software

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Faking votes on Hacker News

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    Facebook Connect for iPhone. Friends Now Included.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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

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

  4. How to Be an Angel Investor

Show 10 more
  1. Training Rats as Traders

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

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

  4. Tarsnap reaches profitability

  5. The Startup Myth

  6. What the Stock Market Really Thinks About the Economy

  7. Super last minute advice for startups applying for Y Combinator

  8. Congress passes wide-ranging bill easing bank laws (1999)

  9. Calling All Foodies: Y Combinator’s Foodoro Launches Online Farmers Market

  10. Shotput Ventures Open Up Apps

Sports 30 stories

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

  2. How Many (Indie) Games I Sell - Part Two

Show 6 more
  1. HTML 5 Canvas game

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

  3. Sometimes having nothing to lose can be a real advantage for a startup

  4. Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

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

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

Technology 580 stories

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

  2. Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

  3. Google announces Google Voice

Show 9 more
  1. Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

  2. Building Quake Live : John Carmack

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

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

  5. Faking votes on Hacker News

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

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

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

  9. Understanding Git

Entertainment 18 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. Beautiful Full Length Movie Released under Creative Commons

  6. Show HN: Our new online face recognition demo

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