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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 31 – August 30, 2010 774 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Paypal for Groups" Startup WePay (YC S09) Raises $7.5M Series B

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Business

    Five new Y Combinator startups to watch

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    How to Minimize Politics in Your Company

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 63 stories

  1. "Paypal for Groups" Startup WePay (YC S09) Raises $7.5M Series B

  2. 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

  3. Is Your Startup A Cash or Equity Business?

  4. The Future of Startup Funding

Show 10 more
  1. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

  2. Five new Y Combinator startups to watch

  3. A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

  4. HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid default

  5. Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)

  6. YCommonApp: Apply to 25+ YC-funded startups in under 10 minutes

  7. How angel investors are destroying young gullible programming talent

  8. Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

  9. Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup

  10. Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's

Sports 19 stories

  1. Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

  2. Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal

Show 6 more
  1. Applications open for Winter 2011 YC Funding, Deadline October 19

  2. Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)

  3. Extremist group tries to game Digg

  4. Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

  5. Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games

  6. Koduco (YC S10) Is Bringing Old-School Fun To Multiplayer iPad Games

Technology 574 stories

  1. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

  2. Poll vs Epoll, once again.

  3. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape

Show 9 more
  1. How to Minimize Politics in Your Company

  2. What you say about others says a lot about you

  3. P ≠ NP

  4. Google Ceasing Development of Google Wave

  5. What's happening at Yahoo

  6. Why GNU grep is Fast

  7. Welcome to the new decade

  8. A letter to my students

  9. "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels

  2. Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers

Show 6 more
  1. Emacs, artist mode

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

  3. Teevox (YC S10) Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control

  4. Gaming Foursquare with 9 lines of Perl

  5. Rate my startup: SolidComposer - version control for musicians

  6. Show HN: My <canvas>-based, Photoshop-esque JavaScript color picker

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