An early example of this, says John Cunningham of SnapTrack, is a Japanese restaurant-review service that allows reviews contributed by previous customers to be called up by somebody outside the restaurant who is wondering whether to eat there.

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You all asked me about the fact that what does it do to have somebody outside of what may be referred to as the judicial monastery, somebody who comes at things looking at them from a slightly different angle.

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Mr Hughes said that other countries including Switzerland and China had successfully introduced requirements whereby permission has to be granted before somebody "outside of the country" can buy.

BBC: Simon Hughes on the Andrew Marr show in 2011

Maybe it is time for somebody to push from the outside, too.

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All of the work must get done by somebody, and this pairing, regardless of who is in the home and who is outside the home, accomplishes that goal.

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