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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 10 – March 12, 2011 820 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 71 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Google knows about you

    10 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    One long, intimate month with the Facebook API

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

  2. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago

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

  4. Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US

Show 10 more
  1. Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work

  2. Life at a startup

  3. Bootstrap your startup: become a hacker tutor

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

  5. The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

  6. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

  7. Custora (YC W11) Helps Online Businesses Improve Customer Retention

  8. Startup Tools

  9. PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend

  10. How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit

Sports 34 stories

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

  2. Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

Show 6 more
  1. Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine

  2. You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)

  3. How rich kids already won the career game

  4. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

  5. Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero

  6. What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

Technology 581 stories

  1. Abusing the HTML5 History API for fun (and chaos)

  2. Libya Shuts Down Internet

  3. Google rolls out algorithm change in the US

Show 9 more
  1. NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

  2. What Google knows about you

  3. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

  4. 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

  5. Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance

  6. What we know about Mac OS X Lion

  7. Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code

  8. Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation

  9. Accounting for Computer Scientists

Entertainment 32 stories

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

  2. Show HN: HackerBooks.com

Show 6 more
  1. Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone

  2. Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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

  4. Moviebarcode - Movies compressed to a single frame

  5. Show HN: SiteSupport.com - Remote Desktop For Webbased Applications

  6. Two Factor SSH with Google Authenticator

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