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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 29 – October 29, 2009 784 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 302 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup School 2009 Notes & Summary

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What does HTML5 mean for us?

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Clojure, Parallelism, and Genetic Algorithms

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Myth of Usability Testing

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Startup School 2009 Notes & Summary

  2. Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks

  3. What Startups Are Really Like

  4. Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman

Show 10 more
  1. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

  2. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

  3. Fundable comes to an ugly end

  4. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

  5. Answers.OnStartups.com -- StackOverflow for startups

  6. The best unknown activist investment of 2009

  7. Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say

  8. Apple 4Q Profit Jumps 47% On Higher Mac, IPhone Sales

  9. Email Newsletters Are Serious Business

  10. How Wall Street is making its billions

Sports 23 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

  2. Wall Street's Naked Swindle

Show 6 more
  1. First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp

  2. The end of AI winter?

  3. 21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)

  4. Changing the game with μTP

  5. You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job

  6. New Twitter, JTV RFSes; Winter 2010 deadline pushed back 2 days

Technology 600 stories

  1. I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix

  2. The Wolfram Alpha API Has Arrived

  3. Nook, Barnes & Noble eBook Reader Announced

Show 9 more
  1. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

  2. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

  3. I Was Told I Was Very Smart

  4. The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

  5. Google Groups is Dead

  6. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you

  7. Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities

  8. How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily

  9. Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

  2. The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

Show 6 more
  1. New instrument scales musical heights

  2. How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic?

  3. Netflix Prize: Was The Napoleon Dynamite Problem Solved?

  4. MIT Startup Bootcamp (live @ justin.tv)

  5. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

  6. The Economist reviews Michael Moore's new film

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