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Users, meanwhile, benefit from the vanity-fueled listmaking frenzy, getting the ability to select from millions of useful lists with a single click.
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In the e-book world, the competition between publishers really happens at various price points, which makes the lists much more useful for publishers.
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Twitter lists are particularly useful to identify a particular crowd of users such as a list of industry analysts, or a list of employees and thought-leaders from your company.
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The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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Ancestry.com offers some free tools, but it keeps many of the most useful databases draft registration cards from World War I, lists of passengers and crew on ship crossings, international marriage records behind a pay wall.
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Or imagine the personal whiteboard in your office or cubicle capturing your spur of the moment ideas and to-do lists electronically, like a digital (and thus, vastly more useful) version of the Post-it note.
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For mor asynchronous folks, like myself, customizing the lists into the major buckets of stuff to keep track of may be more useful.
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And the Autism Speaks website lists hundreds of programs from Angry Birds to Autism Language Learning that families have found useful.
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