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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 3 – August 2, 2010 748 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 214 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's wrong with 1975 programming

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Hacker News User Base Changed?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A few git tips you didn't know about

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

  2. AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card

  3. Startup Competitive Advantages that Work

  4. Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot

Show 10 more
  1. My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

  2. Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants

  3. A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business

  4. The Royal We: Single Founder Startups

  5. The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)

  6. If you can't buy your investor a beer, don't take their money

  7. How to Build a Data-Driven Startup

  8. Lessons from 150 startup pitches

  9. Spend $120K in angel investing instead of MBA studies

  10. WePay (YC S09): Innovating Where Banks Won’t

Sports 19 stories

  1. How to Lose Time and Money

  2. Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police

Show 6 more
  1. To-do app + RPG = EpicWin

  2. Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games

  3. Makani Power, a Google funded wind energy startup, comes out of stealth

  4. Xcode 4 public preview - Single window, LLVM 2.0, streamlined editing

  5. How Steam stopped me from pirating games and enjoy the sweet DRM kool-aid

  6. Is The Game Industry A Happy Place?

Technology 585 stories

  1. My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

  2. Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users

  3. Emerging Languages camp - day 1

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  1. The Top Idea in Your Mind

  2. Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

  3. Abandoned open source projects

  4. The Acceleration of Addictiveness

  5. Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm

  6. How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer

  7. One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen

  8. Will it optimize?

  9. My loss

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist

  2. Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music

Show 6 more
  1. The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv

  2. Full Trailer For Facebook Movie ‘The Social Network’ Hits The Web

  3. Twilio Open Sources Stashboard, the Status Dashboard

  4. Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies

  5. Judge draws parallel between music sharing and unlicensed public performance

  6. Fake femme fatale shows social network risks

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