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Google has just introduced Google Trends For Websites, a new tool that lets users take a peek at the traffic data from sites around the web. The new feature pits Google against a number of well-established players in the traffic data space, including Compete, Comscore, Alexa, and a host of others.

Just saw a few news / blog articles on this new site called Yahoorezinr.com. This is a new site that seems to help Yahoo! employees to create resignation letters with the help of drop downs menus etc.

This is what CNET says:

By visiting the newly created site Yahoorezinr.com, current Yahoo employees can expedite their resignation to Yahoo Chief… Continue

Here are the six simple steps for building a startup (in this case, a software startup).

1. Figure out what to build.
2. Build something.
3. (Option A) Release! Get your product out there.
3. (Option B) Make Perfect, Wait, Release!
4. Sell. Sell. Sell.
5. Refine. Armed with a few paying customers, see what you can learn from them.


For the really, really simple minded here's the summary:

Decide what to build, launch an imperfect version, sell unsuspecting customers, keep improving, sell more… Continue

Hitwise has this article on Blog traffic being at its highest till now.....(nice graphs also)

Highlights:

UK Internet visits to weblogs reached an all time high last week. Blogs and Personal Websites accounted for 1.19% of all UK traffic.

Taking the slightly longer view and looking at the monthly data, the market share of blogs has been increasing steadily over the last three years.

The las… Continue

Firefox 3 plans to be the single largest downloaded software in a day!!! They have already 1 million pledged downloads. Have a look here.

Some 17,000 odd people from India !!