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With all these people getting fired, TheStandard has come out with an ex-Exec tracker. Brilliant!

I did some quick layoff calculations. It appears that Layoffs have been increasing over time The dominant reason for layoffs is cost-cutting E-Commerce companies have laid off the most If the NASDAQ or S&P 500 fall, layoffs increase If the Dow Jones falls, layoffs fall !

Domain names seca-iimb.com, seca-iimb.net and seca-iimb.org are not taken. Likewise for secb and secc. Free purchases are possible at NameZero and NameDemo.

Tools for testing web sites.

I’m using Analog for analysing the IIMB webserver stats. Anyone with enthu, find a better log analyzer and mail me its name.

Amazon is handing out stock options to laid off employees. That’s a good one!

Good: CRISIL | HDFC | ICRA | IDBI | RBI | SEBI | SHCIL | SICOM | UTI Bad: CARE | ECGC | HUDCO | IFCI | SIDBI

“Studies have shown that…” idiosyncratic risk in stocks is higher. So, have 30 stocks in your portfolio.

More layoffs: AT&T, News Corp, Gateway and Motorola. But the find of the day is TheStandard’s layoff tracker.

Excerpts from Nathuram Godse’s statement.

Freedrive closes public storage space. Along with Napster, that’s a nail in the coffin of free software. But what about the argument that code is speech, and hence “free speech”?

Investor Guide: pretty good on news.

Investors are smart. Disney kills Go.com. Stock rises. Sega kills Dreamcast. Stock rises. Lesson: kill it if it won’t work.

Wouldn’t mind investing in Israeli tech stocks. But we’ll have to wait for FEMA to replace FERA.

The MouseDriver Insider: life at a startup.

Recession. Daimler Chrysler slashes 26,000 jobs. Disney cuts 400. Amazon may have cut 20%. It isn’t nice (1 2). But dot-coms might still do well, since software, labour and real-estate costs will start falling?

Self-organising websites. If I had the time, I’d make mine one, like Slashdot or Plastic. Any takers at IIM-B?

zeroTV: good TV-like entertainment for free. World Bank’s B-SPAN has World Bank seminars online. Yeah, the computer is becoming the TV.

Nasdaq will open in Bangalore.

An extraordinary animated spoof of Mohabbatein.