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Microsoft has released a beta version of Virtual Earth, a web-based application that combines local search with maps and aerial photography.
Engage Corp. has raised Series A funding to support hiring and marketing for its Web-based people-matching site.
Employease shows 90% year over year new sales growth; Company's 31st consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
TechTarget has partnered with Kunzer Ediciones, Spain's no. 1 IT publisher, to develop Spanish-language versions of TechTarget media targeting specific communities of IT professionals.
Labor Ready announces Record Second Quarter Results; Net
Income increases 52 percent on a 10 percent rise in revenues.
PageOne, the UK's foremost supplier of SMS messaging technology and services, announces an alliance with Key IT Systems, a provider of temporary staffing management software for the Healthcare sector. The alliance will see the integration of PageOne's leading messaging systems with Key
IT's temporary staffing database software.
Deck Chairs
Mark Stoever joins Monster as Senior
Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Business... Workscape appoints Nicolette M. Brant as the company' s new vice president of business process outsourcing. She assumes responsibility for Workscape's
Western headquarters in Boise.
Survey Sez
Technology Entrepreneurs Frequently Experience Hypomania
Entrepreneurs – especially serial entrepreneurs – have a specific psychiatric disorder known as hypomania, which may be the wellspring for the talent it takes to be an entrepreneur:
"Hypomanics are brimming with infectious energy, irrational confidence and really big ideas. They think, talk, move and make decisions quickly. Anyone who slows them down with questions ‘just doesn't get it'. While hypomanics aren't mental cases, ‘normal' isn't the
first word that comes to mind when describing them. Hypomanics live on the edge between normal and abnormal," says John D. Gartner, a clinical psychologist who teaches psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Gartner recounts a survey he did of entrepreneurs who were asked whether a list of hypomanic traits culled from psychiatric literature are typical of an entrepreneur. These traits include:
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Filled with energy.
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Flooded with ideas.
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Driven, restless and unable to keep still.
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Channels his energy into the achievement of wildly grand ambitions.
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Often works on little sleep.
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Feels brilliant, special, chosen and perhaps even destined to change the world.
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Can be euphoric.
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Becomes easily irritated by minor obstacles.
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Is a risk taker.
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Overspends in both his business and personal life.
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Acts out sexually.
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Sometimes acts impulsively with poor judgment in ways that can have painful consequences.
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Is fast talking.
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Is witty and gregarious.
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His confidence can make him charismatic and persuasive.
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Prone to making enemies and feels he is persecuted by those who do not accept his vision and mission.
Of the entrepreneurs Gartner talked to, 100 percent said they showed these symptoms. Considering the list includes some less-than-savory traits, this might mean his sample was skewed or it might mean that entrepreneurs are as weird as most folks think they are.
Gartner explains that hypomania is clinically related to a true mental illness called mania, which is also known as manic depression. Manic depression occurs in about 1 percent of the population. Hypomania occurs in about 5 to 10 percent.
- From eprarie, by Darrell Dvorak, a partner with Tatum Partners
You Should Know
California: California's economy added 15,600 jobs in June, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the jobs created nationwide. (Mercury News)
Global:
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Two well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneurs unveiled plans Thursday for an ambitious new open online media company that will mix social networking and blogging. (Merc)
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New online logo maker will google-ize your name. (Logogle)
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The computer that wouldn't disappear. Continuous computing is the fifth wave. (Continuous
Blog from Technology Review)
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Really good blogging guidelines. (NewsRecord)
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A look at the inner workings of standards evolution. (O'ReillyRadar)
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Internet study warns politicians about the power of blogs. (FinancialTimes)
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Work is where you hang your coat. (SFChronicle)
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LinkedIn launches paid service for member groups (Reuters)
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Yahoo blog guidelines.
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Webcast of George Gilder's remarks on the coming demise of big media.
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Europe faces an growing IT skills shortage as accelerating retirement rates, a decline in the number of IT graduates and changing skills requirements collide with growing demand for specialists with more business-oriented profiles. (Management
Issues)
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Between 1.5 and 2 million hiring managers search the top 50 career sites daily for people with specific skills. (JobSeekerWeekly)
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The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state. (News.com)
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Job-search etiquette. (CareerJournal)
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Increasingly, online resumes are being accessed not just by legitimate employers but by offshore criminals out to steal identities or bring low-level recruits into international crime rings. (Arizona
Republic)
Hawaii: The unemployment rate held steady for a second straight month at 2.7 percent. (Kauai World)
North Carolina: Call it The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love. That's the message coming from Winston-Salem hospitals, as medical centers nationwide step up their efforts to recruit and educate registered nurses. (Journal)
Poland: While the economic recovery has started to produce jobs, the employment rate is the lowest in the European Union. (Reuters)
UAE: Unique hotel recruitment drive event attracts crowds. (ameinfo)UK:
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Attracting and retaining talent is a major challenge for all organizations. But much of Britain's public sector seems to be making life even harder for itself with policies that are wide of the mark or even counter-productive. (Management
Issues)
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As the demographic make-up of the UK population changes, how this is likely to affect the UK's future economic performance? (Mature
Market)
US:
Washington: Southwest Washington berry growers experienced labor shortages so severe this year that some of them were forced to leave thousands of dollars of fruit in the
field. (Capital Press)
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