Successful mass customisers first find out what limits their customers are happy to live within, and then organise their operations accordingly.
Now a full-blown race to become the dominant MOOC is well underway, with Coursera, World Education University, Udacity, edX and many others competing for critical mass and first-mover advantage.
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OnLive has finally issued an official statement after rumors of mass layoffs first leaked out earlier today, confirming that its assets have been acquired into a newly-formed company with what it claims is "substantial" financial backing.
The Xbox 360, along with Akimbo, will be among the first mass-market devices able to download high def television programs -- and the first we know of in the states able to download HD movies.
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Mary's Church of the Assumption that held a solemn first Mass since the blast.
In its seven-year run, the Aibo was the first mass-production cheap platform for robotics research.
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Arguably one of the very first mass market PDAs that actually worked in the real-world.
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The first Mass Effect game, from a story driven standpoint, the best of them all.
And on Sundays, mass is said first in English, then in Spanish, then in Polish.
Within two years, consumers will be able to buy the first mass-market fuel cell.
He became chief engineer for the Prius, the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car, in 1996.
It was relaxing, and very much in line with the prog-rock feel of the first Mass Effect.
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The car was originally built from aluminium, but became the first mass-production vehicle with a fibreglass body in the 1950s.
Meanwhile, the Firestone Affinity LH--the first mass-market tire rated for high performance--hit stores in March and is selling well.
For decades it was the most famous French car company, having become Europe's first mass car producer in 1919.
Introduced in 1984, HP Thinkjet was the world's first mass-marketed personal inkjet printer.
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The 928 was on sale from 1978 to 1995 and was the first mass-produced Porsche with a V8 engine.
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That computer, arguably the first mass produced PC, was the Norden bombsight.
Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, celebrated his first Mass.
Yes, Pampers: the iconic American brand, the first mass-market disposable diapers, a product that many of you probably waddled around in in your earliest years.
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The first mass balance data from this region are now presented.
Thousands of people have been married in South Korea in the first mass wedding organised by the Unification Church since the death of its founder.
It was the first mass-market idiot-proof touch-to-get operating system that provided a computer experience to people without the experience or the inclination to use one.
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The first mass-consumer use of motion sensing came twelve years later in 2006, and was entirely for fun and games, in the Wii remote controller from Nintendo.
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Design reigned supreme in the 20th century, when it was an integral part of the way artists, publishers, governments and political parties communicated to the first mass audiences.
Francis will celebrate his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, and will be installed officially as pope on Tuesday, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev.
If all goes as planned, the Coda will become the first mass-produced all-electric sedan for sale in the United States next fall, with a price tag, after government rebates, of about thirty-two thousand dollars.
True to form, the Top Five Cars for Democrats include more imports and more small, fuel-efficient cars, including one hybrid, the Honda Civic Hybrid, and also the Nissan Leaf, the first mass-produced battery powered car.
The first mass worms for Android.
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Delivering the homily of his first Mass as leader of the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis ended his remarks with a call to reconstruction of the church, which he said is in danger of being like a house of sand built by children on a beach.
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