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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.		OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience (miksovsky.blogs.com)
		22 points by nickb on Aug 17, 2007 \| 6 comments
6.		VentureBeat: The Y Combinator List (venturebeat.com)
		22 points by jcwentz on Aug 17, 2007 \| 12 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.		Top Ten Reasons To Avoid Venture Capital (antiventurecapital.com)
		10 points by KeshRivya on Aug 17, 2007 \| 2 comments
15.		Skype shuts down (nytimes.com)
		10 points by budu3 on Aug 17, 2007 \| 9 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.		Early iPhone Adopters Extremely Satisfied (seekingalpha.com)
		8 points by dawie on Aug 17, 2007 \| 3 comments
18.		The Power of Good UI Design (phillryu.com)
		8 points by danw 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.		Chicago News.YC Campfire
		8 points by bmaier on Aug 17, 2007 \| 8 comments
22.		Richard Stallman safe after Peru earthquake (wikinews.org)
		8 points by nickb on Aug 17, 2007 \| 11 comments
23.		Animoto: the end of slideshows (animoto.com)
		8 points by jcwentz on Aug 17, 2007 \| 2 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.		Skype network is down, possibly under viral DoS attack. Lessons? (zdnet.com)
		5 points by mojuba on Aug 17, 2007 \| 1 comment
28.		Ga-ga for Groups? LinkedIn is Lame, Facebook is Fantastic (onstartups.com)
		5 points by terpua on Aug 17, 2007
29.		12 Important US Laws that every blogger needs to know (avivadirectory.com)
		5 points by Keios on Aug 17, 2007 \| 2 comments
30.		FuturePundit: Depressed People Cannot Control Emotional Responses To Negative Images (futurepundit.com)
		4 points by ivankirigin on Aug 17, 2007 \| 1 comment
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