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Disappointment Comes Only To Those Who Make Appointment With The Future. The ‘Aam Aadmi’ and the Stock Market both felt disappointed as they had huge expectations from the Budget 2009-2010. On the Indirect Taxation front, the shock was greater as many were hoping a cut in the rate of Service Tax, which did not happened. Even the Threshold Exemption limit was not increased as expected. However, this time the most worried community are the elite section of the society – Lawyers and Doctors. The Fi… Continue

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. Continue

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 !! Continue

For all the social bookmarking enthusiasts, here is the Delicious 2.0 sneak preview. Continue

Its amazing how companies continue to be funded inspite of all this noise about recession in the US of A. RockYou is an amazing widget site and is also extremely popular as a facebook app. If it raised $35 million it is obviously valued multiples of that!! Read more here. Continue

So Apple continues to roll out Iphone services across the world and is not planning to add a 3G iPhone. It just keeps getting better and maybe they are all set to rule the mobile internet of the future. Nice link that gives details of Steve Jobs Presentation at the launch: http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/steve-jobs-keynote-live-from-wwdc-2008/ Continue

TechCruch seems to have go their hands on (or are these things leaked :-)) a sneak preview of some apps build on Googles new mobile OS - Android. In case you are interested have a look here. Continue

something new (at least I was not aware) seems to have started out last week.....this is the email I got. --------- We are pleased to announce the Startup Saturday Mumbai (http://mumbai.startupsaturday.in), May edition on May 10th, 2008. The objective of Startup Saturday is to provide a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss, present, network and learn from peers, prospective customers, adopters and investors. Startup Saturdays are a great way for ent… Continue