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Startup / Entrepreneurship
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Narcissists Tend to Become Leaders
LiveScience Staff
Tue Oct 7, 2008 4:56 PM ET
Narcissists like to be in charge, so it stands to reason that a new
study shows individuals who are overconfident about their abilities are
most likely to step in as leaders, be they politicians or power
brokers.
However, their initiative doesn't mean they are the best leaders. The study also found narcissists don't outperform others in leadership roles.
Narcissists tend to be egotistical types who exaggerate their talents and abilities, and lack empathy for others. The researchers stress that narcissism is not the same as high self-esteem.
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Biz Models
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69% of US adults still use e-mail for sharing information
Sept 14, 2008
US adults still depend on personal email as a main source of
receiving shared content: 69% still rely on email to share content and
information, Forrester Research reports.
Personal emails made up 56% of shared content received; however, more
than 50% of youth use instant messaging, videos from YouTube, and wikis
to share content, while notes on social networks and text messages on
cell phones equates respectively to 30% and 41% for how this
demographic receives information.
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Life
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Going Solo in the USA
By Sperling's BestPlaces
Sep 29th, 2008
Last year, the New York Times published the results of its census analysis stating that 51% of U.S. women live without a spouse. However, Sperling's BestPlaces discovered this might not be the whole story.
"The Times came to some insightful conclusions with their analysis," said Bert Sperling, lead researcher for Sperling's BestPlaces. "We made some different assumptions to more closely reflect our national lifestyle where fifteen year-old girls aren't commonly expected to get married."
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Psychology
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Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people
Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person.
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Startup / Entrepreneurship
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Nerds rejoice: Braininess boosts likelihood of sex
NewScientist.com news service
Ewen Callaway 15:57 03 October 2008
Lonely men ought to flaunt their copies of New Scientist. Women looking for both one-night stands and long-term relationships go for geniuses over dumb jocks, according to a new study of hundreds of university students.
"Women want the best of both worlds. Not only a physically attractive man, but somebody in the long term who can provide for them," says Mark Prokosch, an evolutionary psychologist at Elon University in North Carolina, who led the study.
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Startup / Entrepreneurship
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Calgary entrepreneur liberates desktops
Innovative Userful makes most of computer hardware
Dan Healing, Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, September 20, 2008
"One Computer, One Child" is the rallying cry for a generation of technology education observers.
But a Calgary entrepreneur would love to see a slight change in that slogan: "One Computer, 10 Workstations, 10 Children."
Tim Griffin, 36, is the very tall, very young-looking and very serious president of Userful Corp., a nine-year-old private technology company on the verge of a 10-fold increase in activity thanks to pending sales from far-flung corners of the world. The Kingston, Ont., native, who first came West to earn his master's degree in industrial design at the University of Calgary, started his company in 1999 to "pay some bills" as a web page designer but, like many entrepreneurs before him, was inspired by frustration to invent the computer-multiplying product that took over the company.
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Making $$ on the Web
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Blogger Cashes Out for $15 Million
October 2, 2008
In the midst of economic doom and gloom, exits can still exist. PaidContent and ProBlogger are both reporting on a story of a blog exit that’s nothing short of jaw-dropping. Financial services blog Bankaholic has been purchased by financial information portal BankRate for a stunning $14.9 million. Bankaholic is a one man shop, operated by John Wu, who is supposed to stay online with the blog after the transition.
BankRate has made a number of acquisitions recently, according to PaidContent:
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