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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 22 – December 22, 2009 815 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 356 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Twitter finally in the money with Google link

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The impact of language choice on github projects

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    An open letter to Eric Schmidt

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?

  2. Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

  3. Clojure Funding Progress

  4. “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

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  1. Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

  2. What's the Deal with Fish Oil?

  3. Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month

  4. Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

  5. Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

  6. CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

  7. Startup ideas

  8. Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup

  9. FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  10. StartupBoeing - Info from Boeing about how to start an airline

Sports 23 stories

  1. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

  2. Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game

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  1. YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict

  2. Why I Stopped Throwing Out Junk Mail

  3. Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos

  4. Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

  5. Tinywm, a window manager in 50 lines of C

  6. Xmonad + bluetile = making tiling windowing accessible to new users

Technology 624 stories

  1. Browser Size, from Google Labs

  2. Web Developers Are Stupid and Arrogant

  3. Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

Show 9 more
  1. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad

  2. Amazon Introduces Bidding for CPU Time (Spot Instances)

  3. Microsoft rips off Plurk

  4. The End Of The CrunchPad

  5. There is a certain inevitability to life.

  6. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

  7. Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr

  8. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

  9. Why I gave away my company to charity

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

  2. SSD Streaming at Last.fm

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  1. Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo

  2. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever

  3. Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

  4. Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts

  5. Gaming the System

  6. Justin.tv Testifies to Congress about its Copyright Protection Systems

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