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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 22 – February 21, 2011 811 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 52 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Lean Startup 101 by Eric Ries: How to Build a Better Startup

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Google knows about you

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Why 3D doesn't work and never will.

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. Lean Startup 101 by Eric Ries: How to Build a Better Startup

  2. Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

  3. Random Startup Generator

  4. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

Show 10 more
  1. Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US

  2. Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code

  3. UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison

  4. Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?

  5. Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups

  6. Why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers?

  7. Qwiki Epitomizes the Current Startup Bubble

  8. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

  9. How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good

  10. WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam

Sports 27 stories

  1. Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

  2. Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.

Show 6 more
  1. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

  2. UBB overturned - Canada no longer biggest internet loser.

  3. Bing search results showing up in Google

  4. Counterfeit Game Sold on Apple's App Store

  5. Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome

  6. 20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast

Technology 573 stories

  1. Does Google do "research"?

  2. Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

  3. Libya Shuts Down Internet

Show 9 more
  1. Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter

  2. Towards Better Online Dating

  3. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

  4. Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text

  5. World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10)

  6. Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad

  7. "You've angered the hive"

  8. I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks

  9. I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch

  2. How (not) to write Factorial in Java

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable

  2. Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone

  3. Show HN: Breakup Notifier

  4. How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night

  5. Super Awesome Sylvia shows super simple Arduino

  6. Two Factor SSH with Google Authenticator

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