But it has grown into a massive media player, where more than a billion people - many of them under 18 - come in search of entertainment.
They have been courted by the media, they have been the subject of massive media speculation, the media have been camped outside each and every single one of their houses desperate to hear the stories.
Recently, some observers have questioned the show's relevance at a time when tech giants such as Google and Apple -- witness Tuesday's Nexus One launch -- can get massive media coverage for product announcements whenever they want.
They say high profile prisoners - usually on trial or convicted in murder or terrorism-related cases - are often kept under suicide watch and given more protection as they face massive media coverage and are deemed to be at risk from other inmates.
Given the massive media attention she garners at all of her public appearances, Palin's participation in the rally would have done more to steel Americans - across the political spectrum - to the cause of opposing Iran than 10 UN Security Council sanctions resolutions could do.
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All those children have been targeted by a massive, multimillion- dollar media campaign that preys on their insecurities and their dreams.
And whether or not NBC's licensing bet pays off, old media plants a massive victory stake in the ground, pushing aside technology's rightful role of connecting the world in shared moments, impervious to the sharpened sticks hurled by the digerati.
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That very coordination is yielding unmatched benefits, particularly in customer ease-of-use that drives iPhone and iPad owners to be truly massive consumers of apps and online media.
Another of the Le Web speakers will be Nick Halstead, the founder of Datasift, a platform that enables companies to interpret massive amounts of data through social media networks like Twitter and Facebook.
While a media parade and a massive crowd of supporters met her at the airport, Bhutto was also met with skepticism from a weary public, tired of party politics and the looming threat of instability.
Recall how in 2007, the "Paulbots" were everywhere: running up the numbers on every online poll they could find, generating one-day fundraising records in a desperate bid for national attention (they coined the word "money-bomb"), and creating massive amounts of voter-generated media on his behalf.
Use of digital and social media is intended to shed massive light on the human impact of cancer and how people can collectively join the fight.
Companies like 360i, which specializes in social (but is growing into new platforms) has grown on the massive rise in the demand for social media and SEO by clients.
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The ad became a hit in the media and went on to receive massive acclaim from the advertising community.
Police have now sealed off all entry and exit points in Multan, and a massive search operation is under way, local media report.
While no one can deny the impressive momentum and increasing strength of social media, Google continues to reap massive profits from its search operations.
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It was also a big day for options trading on the iShares Silver Trust (Ticker: SLV) that saw the birth of one massive bearish play that generated a ton of media attention.
Other areas of high-tech are premised less on breakthrough innovations and more on the application of technology to massive new markets in retailing, advertising, media, financial services, education, publishing, communications, fashion and music.
Being fully programmable and with their massive parallelism, the 96 cores of StemCell Media processors can easily handle the onerous computational requirements of this new CODEC and support higher resolutions that are beyond today's display systems.
As such, the massive data on social interactions being generated by social media services like Facebook and Twitter present unprecedented opportunities for research.
The professional media and entertainment industry has undergone a massive transformation over the last 15 years, from an analog world defined largely by video tape and film to one defined by digital formats and metadata (information about the video content and its production history).
Telecom operators, Media companies and Utilities on the other hand generate massive amounts of data every day related to their subscribers, network operations, and services.
Studies and media reports consequently sounded the alarm that Reaganomics was causing massive increases in inequality and the incomes of the richest to soar compared to everyone else.
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Second, led by Yediot, the media prefer to portray Barak's buffoonery as courageous statecraft than acknowledge the massive cost of his failure.
Mr Byard said a social media campaign to remind people the town was open for business had made a "massive difference".
Solve Media helps brands like Toyota and Expedialift their awareness through precisely targeted online ads, delivering massive results that translate into offline sales.
From our Homepage relaunch to massive video growth to significant increases in external traffic, you have been at the forefront of digital media- and this is only the beginning.
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Even though the paper had a massive collection of photos that are priceless artifacts of Baltimore history, Smith found that digitizing the visual media in the archive was actually not included in the project.
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