The social effect has been powerful: 15% of all users who visit the live feed each day end up buying on the site.
My gut sense is that if you take ten of your Facebook friends and ask them to explain how the News Feed works, seven of them will end up sputtering incoherently and looking at their shoes.
"We need to end usage for growth promotion and feed efficiency and think about what we are doing for the long term, " Undurraga said.
Unfortunately, the people who feed the beast are not always on the receiving end of the value proposition.
But at the time, in the early 1980s, Khosla feared that he would end up fermenting beer, making animal feed, or refining petroleum.
There is currently a glut on the market because producers, spurred by high feed prices, rushed to liquidate hogs at the end of the summer.
And so I think that the thing that will actually achieve stability in that region is if young people, if ordinary folks end up feeling that there are pathways for them to feed their families, get a decent job, get an education, aspire to a better life.
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At the opposite end of the spectrum, Alabama is luring global firms to feed its manufacturing base.
Progress continues on a supplemental ore feed system, with the project is on track for completion by year-end and 130, 000-ton-per-day throughput expected by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
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True, the company swung to a profit from a loss and reported that operating margins were once again positive, but it warned those margins are likely to contract as higher feed costs flow through and hit during what is a period of seasonal weakness, after the end of the summer and early autumn barbecue season.
There are third-party apps for feed-reading, but Google Reader remains both the dominant client and nearly the only back-end syncing service underpinning the entire RSS experience (a position the company actively pursued).
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On the back end, one server shelf can serve up to 15 players an HD (read: 720p) feed simultaneously, and graphical artefacting is kept to a minimum because it streams over the operator's managed network.
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The West has proposed a deal whereby Iran would send uranium abroad for further enrichment to feed some reactors for medical purposes in the country, but the government is nigh-certain to miss the end-of-year deadline for progress.
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