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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 23 – May 23, 2009 780 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 143 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

royal.pingdom.com · 2 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Slicehost Pro iPhone App now free

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How Scala Changed My Programming Style

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The The Nimrod Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

    royal.pingdom.com · 2 outlets

  2. The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

    blog.mixergy.com · 1 outlets

  3. Lessons from a failed startup

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API

    collison.ie · 1 outlets

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  1. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

    independent.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

    startupcompanylawyer.c · 1 outlets

  3. Interview With Eric Reis On Lean Startups

    37signals.com · 2 outlets

  4. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

    avc.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

    chrisashworth.org · 2 outlets

  6. Idiot CEOs

    venturecompany.com · 1 outlets

  7. Microsoft revenue down 6%, earnings down 30% for third quarter

    thestandard.com · 1 outlets

  8. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

    news.zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  9. The App Store Is a Classic Example Of A Broken Business Process

    thecodist.com · 1 outlets

  10. Launch a Business, Not a side Project

    thinkvitamin.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

    musicmachinery.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

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  1. We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

    kuro5hin.org · 1 outlets

  2. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

    shamusyoung.com · 1 outlets

  3. Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.

    chronicle.com · 1 outlets

  4. A few comments on pandemic influenza

    fluidinfo.com · 1 outlets

  5. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  6. Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter

    bagofnothing.com · 1 outlets

Technology 604 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

    mashable.com · 15 outlets

  2. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

    tuxradar.com · 1 outlets

  3. Deny This, Last.fm

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

    james-iry.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

  2. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. Is There Anything Good About Men?

    denisdutton.com · 1 outlets

  4. Much of the established news industry is being blown away. Yet news is thriving

    mattmaroon.com · 3 outlets

  5. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

    miltonglaser.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Case For Working With Your Hands

    jgc.org · 2 outlets

  7. Don’t! The secret of self-control

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  8. My Personal Credit Crisis

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

    inc.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 22 stories

  1. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  2. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

    savingadvice.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

  2. Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  3. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

    harpers.org · 1 outlets

  4. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

  5. Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

    reddit.tv · 1 outlets

  6. Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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