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Blifaloo (via bBlog):

The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.

Warning: Sometimes Ignorance is bliss; after gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you.

Technorati tags: lying, body language, behaviour, tells

Derek Powazek:

You know you can use Technorati to find blog posts about anything and everything. But what if you don’t want blog posts – what if you want to find entire blogs about a certain subject? That’s where the new Technorati Blog Finder comes in.

Technorati tags: blogging, folksonomy

BootstrapBangalore:

BootstrapBangalore is a forum where entrepreneurs in Bangalore who are focused on taking a “bootstrapping” approach to building their companies can get together. The forum is a place to share ideas, network and learn from each other and foster business relationships.

Technorati tags: bootstrapping, startup, bangalore, india

alarm:clock:

The Web, unlike TV, is supposed to be rigorously quantifiable. And yet when asked to provide data, most Web publishers shrug or lie. Advertisers look to Alexa just to get bearings and they might pay for Nielsen NetRatings for estimates. But nobody trusts this data. Plus click-fraud and bots make all campaigns suspect. Imagine a company that can bring order to the metrics chaos. That would be something.

Technorati tags: metrics, opportunity, web

Jonathan Leake:

SCIENTISTS have created a “miracle mouse” that can regenerate amputated limbs or badly damaged organs, making it able to recover from injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals.

Technorati tags: science, biology, genetics

Tom Evslin (via Dane Carlson):

A leopard chasing an impala can make a mistake, lose the quarry, learn from the mistake, and hunt more wisely on another day. If the impala makes a mistake, it becomes the leopard’s lunch. Predators fail often; prey fail only once.

Technorati tags: evolution, failure, startup, entrepreneurship

John L. Nesheim:

The founders can dramatically increase their chances for successfully raising the capital they need to start a new high-tech company if they understand the venture capital formation process. This chapter examines in detail the fourteen stages of this process

Technorati tags: startup, process, technology

Glenn Rifkin (via lifestylepreneur):

While high-tech start-ups in a hurry to expand get most of the ink, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are choosing another path: slow growth or no growth.

Technorati tags: startup, entrepreneurship, life

Michael Rappa:

Business models have been defined and categorized in many different ways. This is one attempt to present a comprehensive and cogent taxonomy of business models observable on the web. The proposed taxonomy is not meant to be exhaustive or definitive. Internet business models continue to evolve. New and interesting variations can be expected in the future.

Technorati tags: business, entrepreneurship, web2.0

Max Chafkin:

For years, economists have been warning of a possible housing bubble, but the Greenspan comments — along with a report by the National Association of Realtors last week showing that home sales declined in July by 2.3% — suggest that some kind of slowdown may be imminent. “Frankly, [housing prices] are growing at a rate that is not sustainable,” said Mike Fratantoni, an economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, “but there should not be a dramatic impact.” He attributed price increases, 12.5% over the past year according to government data, to demographic changes, job growth, and low interest rates for long-term mortgages.

Technorati tags: real estate, economics