Scheduling: Airline-like ease of scheduling, checking-in, etc. rather than having to spend an extra 20 minutes in waiting rooms filling out forms.
No matter how you read the stats from Social TV metrics companies Bluefin Labs and Trendrr, records fell for people posting, tweeting, checking-in and commenting around broadcast TV last night.
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Philo is a startup that, along with competitors like Miso and GetGlue, has taken the concept of "checking in"--popularized in recent months by location-based apps like Foursquare--and applied it to television shows.
Instead of establishing, arriving, cashing-in and checking-out, we might see our progression as perpetually evolving, even into and through retirement.
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The Standard piece offers up some genuine examples of faulty fact-checking in service of its tendentious argument.
For example, AAP has advocated no tackle football before eighth grade, and a ban on body-checking in hockey for kids younger than 15.
The ongoing study is like the science-y version of the "7-Up" documentary series -- with researchers checking in on the lives of the subjects at several-year intervals.
So the bottom-fishers are out in force -- checking their gear, if not yet actually casting.
The original device was useful enough: It shipped with a built-in Apple apps for checking the Internet, weather, e-mail, texts, stocks, calendars and the time.
The Wi-Fi will come in handy for things like checking e-mail and browsing the Web when you're near a hotspot or perhaps within range of your own wireless network at home.
Note, Mr. King also highlights a variety of co-working environments worth checking out in the post linked above.
People are going back to the old ways of checking in on each other - landline phones or visiting each other door-to-door.
The number of people employed by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has dropped by about 4, 000 in the past two years, although many of these were not in document-checking roles.
For the purposes of fact-checking, this is two groups publicly squabbling over lines in 2, 000-page bills.
Twitter users joked that maybe he had been found by accidentally checking in to the popular geo-location service Foursquare.
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The unit is said to be around the size "of a medium paperback, " checking in at 0.4-inches think and featuring a 6-inch 800 x 600 resolution display.
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In Illinois, it was rumored that the ICE agents, DHS ICE agents, were actually going into parking lots and checking IDs in parking lots like Wal-Mart and McDonalds.
Asham scored 5 goals in 64 regular-season games before he earned a four-game suspension for cross-checking, then punching, the Flyers' Brayden Schenn in a playoff game.
These poor folks simply have no time to do much fact-checking or first-hand reporting, and they barely know what questions to ask in the first place.
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More than 50% of the polling stations were audited after they closed, double-checking their machine-printed tally reports by comparing them with the printed votes placed in the ballot boxes.
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In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.
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In addition to checking out e-books, customers will be given the ability to make annotations within the text.
He said he was successful at recovering an extra 700m euros in taxes by cross-checking evidence from different databases.
Suze Orman, for example, wrote in her most recent book, The Money Class, that 8 months of savings in an interest-bearing checking account is simply a must.
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That means your money is always working for you, instead of idling in a no-interest checking account while waiting to be spent on bills or moved to savings.
Or to put it another way, it's not completely bonkers that the German government does not wish to - in effect - finance the lifestyles of Italians and Spanish people, without checking whether German voters think that's tickety-boo.
Checking in to my modest (Ikea-style small single beds with one pillow) digs for the week, I saw the same odd mix European skiers happily drinking their lagers, next to men and women (mostly men) busily reading their papers and typing on their computers in the only area of the hotel with internet.
He has been a fan favorite during pre-season games in Florida, where many in the crowd at Joker Marchant Stadium have been double-checking their programs and looking him up on their iPhones.
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But if not, make sure clearing your desk takes precedence over things like checking e-mails and chatting with co-workers in the morning.
Checking Twitter or Facebook is simply not self-limiting in the same manner.
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