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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 13 – March 14, 2012 832 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 11 · Issue 74 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

paulgraham.com · 2 sources

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Copycats at Hacker News

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    How Twitter broke Twitter

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Business

    Is your startup idea already taken?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

    paulgraham.com · 2 outlets

  2. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees

    minecraftforum.net · 1 outlets

  4. Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing

    youtu.be · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Sad, Tired, and Alone: My Ongoing Battle With Startup Depression

    zakhomuth.com · 1 outlets

  2. Chrome connects to three random domains at startup

    mikewest.org · 1 outlets

  3. Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen

    bitcoinmedia.com · 2 outlets

  4. New Reddit CEO reporting for duty

    blog.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  5. A Classic Startup Horror Story

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  6. Modafinil and Startups

    swombat.com · 1 outlets

  7. Hacker Monthly: best of the Internet, printed out, and it’s turning a profit

    niemanlab.org · 1 outlets

  8. Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter finishes at $3,335,250

    kickstarter.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++

    theanorexicstartup.com · 1 outlets

  10. RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a 'One-Time Thing'

    internetevolution.com · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

  1. Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever

    martinkool.com · 1 outlets

  2. EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database

    eff.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game

    stabyourself.net · 1 outlets

  2. Interesting Windows Desktop UI Concept

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  3. Windows 8 Consumer Preview released.

    windows.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

  4. The story of the hardest platform game ever

    pwnee.com · 1 outlets

  5. Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  6. Insurgent Games Makes All Games Free, Releases Everything as Open Source

    insurgentgames.com · 1 outlets

Technology 612 stories

  1. Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data?

    apple.com · 4 outlets

  2. Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon

    brianrue.wordpress.com · 4 outlets

  3. MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

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  1. New version of Apache HTTP Server released

    zdnet.com · 2 outlets

  2. Viral Video About Body Scanners

    tsaoutofourpants.wordp · 2 outlets

  3. Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

    realdanlyons.com · 1 outlets

  4. Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  5. Why I Left Google

    blogs.msdn.com · 1 outlets

  6. Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive

    metafilter.com · 1 outlets

  7. 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.

    shwood.squarespace.com · 1 outlets

  8. TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story

    tsaoutofourpants.wordp · 1 outlets

  9. How Twitter broke Twitter

    fortaweso.me · 5 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.

    people.xiph.org · 1 outlets

  2. TV is broken

    minimalmac.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books

    hackershelf.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site

    bootswatch.com · 2 outlets

  3. How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail

    streak.com · 1 outlets

  5. YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music

    c4sif.org · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

    flutter.io · 1 outlets

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