Thousands of these workers burrowed through the mountains with hand tools and explosives, cleared land and laid tracks, often working in appalling conditions.

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These tools can aggregate expertise and information through company wikipages, and work streams and projects can become fluid and flexible as ideas are more easily introduced and adapted.

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The question becomes, what responsibility do they have to use these tools to improve the world, to make a positive contribution through the gifts they received?

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They are just tools, but as some of the winners of the Knight News Challenge have already shown, these new tools can produce information that might never have been found before through traditional means.

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Today, Adobe is announcing the first public preview of a new piece of its HTML5 Edge Tools suite called Adobe Edge Reflow that enables all of these things through a single interface.

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These tools will enable Facebook users to share Yahoo content with their friends, and create a viral effect through which Yahoo can attract more traffic.

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