He was impressed with what Estonia calls e-government: the idea that mouse-clicks, not queues outside offices, are the best way for citizens to meet the state.

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At Amazon.com, it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.

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At Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.

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It works like this: After downloading a tiny bit of software, users mouse over any word on any Web page, within any e-mail, within any document, hit the "Alt" key and automatically get an Answers.com page with information described above.

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An address on an e-mail, for example, can appear over the text as a map with a move of the computer mouse.

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