When a spinning ball hits a low friction surface such as grass, it will continue to spin.

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They often have interesting properties, such as poor heat conductivity (which makes them good insulators) and low friction (which makes them slippery).

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That has already begun, in the sense that apps developer communities are very low friction forms of commerce, a topic Nick Vitalari and I addressed in The Elastic Enterprise.

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The Crippling Image Intelligence Problem is a four part series that focuses on the evolution of content creation from Facebook into a more visually dominated medium through new, massively popular, low friction, low investment content creation platforms, like Tumblr, Pinterest, and Posterous.

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Through rapid iteration, a group of determined people using low-friction technology had created a vast, self-regulating system.

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The result is a tough material that has a low coefficient of friction comparable to that of Teflon and is highly resistant to abrasion.

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