Word: built
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...technology age, network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where they...
...tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation-construction outfit demanded $20 million to build a hangar at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes instead asked the small contractor who had built his home to do it for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind-set of staff so they eat, sleep and breathe costs...
...music, book and video-game industries have all embraced the Internet ? BitTorrent This efficient way of transmitting large files can make anyone a movie distributor ? Revver By attaching ads to Web videos, Revver gave stupid pet tricks their first business model ? Second Life An imaginary world built by users spending real money, it has become a nation of nearly 2 million ? YouTube The site that leveled the entertainment playing field. Ask a Ninja outdraws The Daily Show ? Last FM Beyond radio, it's a way to tap into the musical tastes of the crowd...
...whole new society, with features that maximize individuality ? Google Maps Users can add their own points of interest to create mashups like www.beerhunter.ca ? Google AdSense Provides free ads relevant to your website, then pays you if people click on them ? Google The search empire built itself around a social function: counting links between websites THE GATHERERS The crowd isn't just expressing itself more; it's also gathering and filtering all those blog posts and photographs and finding an audience for them ? iStockphoto This photo store taps an army of amateurs, who can sell their shots...
...currently focused on the MEarth Project, which involves building an array of ground-based telescopes to detect potentially habitable planets. These telescopes will focus on rocky planets orbiting nearby low-mass stars that are cooler and dimmer than the Sun. The first few telescopes have already been built in Southern Arizona...