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

Excerpts from Nathuram Godse’s statement.

“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.

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

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”?

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?