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1. The "I Have 250,000 Users, Now What?" guy just sold his Facebook app for $3 million (insidefacebook.com)
43 points by toffer on Aug 17, 2007 | 21 comments
2. YC West Coast Demo Day Roundup (techcrunch.com)
41 points by jamiequint on Aug 17, 2007 | 10 comments
3. What is going on with the editing of submission titles?
32 points by dpapathanasiou on Aug 17, 2007 | 28 comments
4. How To Make a Funny Talk Title Without Using The Word "Weasel" (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
27 points by fad on Aug 17, 2007 | 3 comments
5. VentureBeat: The Y Combinator List (venturebeat.com)
22 points by jcwentz on Aug 17, 2007 | 12 comments
6. OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience (miksovsky.blogs.com)
22 points by nickb on Aug 17, 2007 | 6 comments
7. Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph (bradfitz.com)
23 points by danw on Aug 17, 2007 | 3 comments
8. Fuck Facebook Conversion: Be platform agnostic and use your own APIs. (thisisgoingtobebig.com)
18 points by jkopelman on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
9. Cringely: Surviving Immortality (pbs.org)
17 points by ph0rque on Aug 17, 2007 | 8 comments
10. YSlow: Yahoo's problems are not your problems (codinghorror.com)
14 points by pg on Aug 17, 2007 | 1 comment
11. Knex computer at Olin College (knexcomputer.blogspot.com)
13 points by s_baar on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
12. Updated: TripAdvisor Denies Buying Facebook App (paidcontent.org)
13 points by horatio05 on Aug 17, 2007 | 10 comments
13. Two Social System Design Trends That Should Really, Really Stop (brianoberkirch.com)
14 points by danw on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
14. Skype shuts down (nytimes.com)
10 points by budu3 on Aug 17, 2007 | 9 comments
15. Top Ten Reasons To Avoid Venture Capital (antiventurecapital.com)
10 points by KeshRivya on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
16. Lies, Damn Lies, and the Number of Sexual Partners (in-theory.blogspot.com)
8 points by adamx on Aug 17, 2007 | 3 comments
17. The Power of Good UI Design (phillryu.com)
8 points by danw on Aug 17, 2007 | 3 comments
18. Early iPhone Adopters Extremely Satisfied (seekingalpha.com)
8 points by dawie on Aug 17, 2007 | 3 comments
19. Techcrunch: Techstars demo day (techcrunch.com)
9 points by kf on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
20. Map of Internet Usage By Country - Country size proportioned accordingly (cnn.com)
7 points by jamiequint on Aug 17, 2007 | 3 comments
21. Richard Stallman safe after Peru earthquake (wikinews.org)
8 points by nickb on Aug 17, 2007 | 11 comments
22. Animoto: the end of slideshows (animoto.com)
8 points by jcwentz on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
23. Chicago News.YC Campfire
8 points by bmaier on Aug 17, 2007 | 8 comments
24. Seth's Blog: No business model (sethgodin.typepad.com)
7 points by dawie on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
25. Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak (reuters.com)
7 points by dean on Aug 17, 2007 | 10 comments
26. Facebook Takes Action Against Black Hat Apps (techcrunch.com)
6 points by transburgh on Aug 17, 2007
27. Ga-ga for Groups? LinkedIn is Lame, Facebook is Fantastic (onstartups.com)
5 points by terpua on Aug 17, 2007
28. 12 Important US Laws that every blogger needs to know (avivadirectory.com)
5 points by Keios on Aug 17, 2007 | 2 comments
29. Skype network is down, possibly under viral DoS attack. Lessons? (zdnet.com)
5 points by mojuba on Aug 17, 2007 | 1 comment
30. Physicists discover inorganic dust with lifelike qualities (sciencedaily.com)
4 points by jyrzyk on Aug 17, 2007 | 1 comment

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