Word: connect
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...more offbeat intellectual style, and I think that was his great gift - to cover what could have been just sort of crass commercial filmmaking with a whole artistic [approach] that was more abstracted and was more hip and was more offbeat. So I think Sydney's ability to connect the more commercial strain with the more abstract was a special gift...
...inexact science. But using one from a green group or a government agency--and not one sponsored by a company--should give you an unbiased number that will help identify exactly where you can go greener. "Global warming is an abstract idea that is hard for people to connect to," says Bob Schildgen, the Sierra Club's environmental-advice columnist. "It's good to start at the basic level, with real numbers...
...tanker ship from Marseilles will pull into a specially equipped dock in Barcelona's busy port, connect to a new pipeline, and discharge a liquid cargo essential to the running of the city. The ship will not, however, be carrying oil or petroleum. It is the first of many shipments of drinking water that form part of a program to slake the thirst of this drought-plagued city. Other proposals, such as a controversial plan to divert water from the Ebro river, have pitted the Catalan capital against farmers and other cities, in a mild foretaste of the water-wars...
...Better yet, as Friend Connect picks up steam, perhaps some applications developer will create a specialized app for all the real estate blogs out there (there are tons of them) and make it easier for, say, real estate agents and home sellers to connect with home buyers. Or, consumers searching out contractors in a specific area...
...Friend Connect works, the ramifications are huge, of course. It's another smart move for Google, which would be able to serve up even more targeted advertising to users - and make even more money. Through a project called OpenSocial, Google has been working to fight back against Facebook's closed network while mimicking, on the wide-open Web, Facebook's core advantages - Facebook is a place where a user not only defines his or her set of friends, but the applications he or she wants to use. Those two things - your friend list and the things you like...