At Airbnb, which was founded in 2008 and lets people book vacations in other people's homes, institutionalized fun is a philosophy.
An aspect of the project that wasn't generally known at the time was Google's collection of data about individual wireless networks, including those in people's homes.
As nursing homes and hospitals cut back on bedrails, more of those devices are ending up in people's homes.
These are held in people's homes and typically are men-only, with liquor being a big attraction.
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In some parts of the country, utilities have already begun to install so-called "smart meters" in people's homes.
"Everybody that had an instrument or knew how to yodel or dance would meet in people's homes, " Ockelmann says.
Kabul has eateries and roadside stalls that sell kebabs and tasty snacks, but I suspect that the best local food, as in many places, is to be had in people's homes.
Many families have been using children to make carpets for generations, and the fact that the weaving often takes place in people's homes makes it especially difficult to monitor the practice.
Indeed, there was such an uproar in California when the authorities proposed letting power companies adjust the thermostats in people's homes remotely so as to lower overall electricity consumption at peak times the idea was hastily abandoned.
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Many parents say crippling poverty forces them to send their children, sometimes as young as five or six, to work in other people's homes or in factories.
More and more, she says, Brazilian women would rather not work in other people's homes.
That compares to 262 people in private residential homes and 1351 people in private nursing homes in the trust's area.
In Mirzapur most looms are inside people's homes or in communal sheds.
"The next fundamental stage is therefore a rebalancing of care so that more services are delivered in the community closer to people's homes, " she said in a keynote speech to the summit.
It allows access to hundreds of radio stations around the world in conjunction with PCs and audio components that already exist in so many people's homes, he said.
Lincolnshire has seen a surge in rodents spotted near people's homes according to a pest controller.
In April, the government announced proposals to bring in a two-year jail sentence for dog owners in England and Wales whose animals were found to be "dangerously out of control" in their own or other people's homes.
The Independent Living activists had started a movement and, when in 1986 Margaret Thatcher's government withdrew a benefit which had supported disabled people in their own homes, a furious campaign was mobilised.
So it's an effort to keep people in homes long enough until the housing market settles down.
Housing advocates call Paulson's plan weak, saying it falls way short of the Bush administration's purported goal of keeping people in their homes.
Put simply, if you're in prison, you can't burgle people's homes.
It is called Norovirus Sydney 2012 it has spread from Australia through England and Wales and now to the U.S. It is currently sickening people in nursing homes and churches and other public areas throughout Utah.
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She created a site where people are sharing their itineraries in an attempt to either travel together, meet up with Twitter followers in their cities or try to couch surf at other people's homes.
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That's people who are out of their homes in the middle of the night - children who maybe won't get to school this morning, old people who will be facing the challenge of not being able to have a night in their own bed.
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Doctors report having to remove mold from people's noses and ears because they stayed in water-damaged homes.
Let's put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighbourhoods.
Toll Brothers ( TOL - news - people ), a builder of luxury homes in the U.S., reported a 27% drop in new home contracts, which fell to 558 units.
With predicted storm surges of up to 11ft, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered 375, 000 people in the city's vulnerable low-lying areas to leave their homes.
And we hope it continues to keep people where we want to see them, and that's in their homes.
Utilities also would have to make significant investments in power lines to get wind energy and other renewable sources from remote areas to people's homes.
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