He spent the 1990s turning US Filter into the world's largest water company by acquiring hundreds of smaller outfits.

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Heckmann bought most companies with US Filter's high-price stock, diluting earnings per share and masking the fact that most bottom-line growth was coming from acquisitions.

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So, going forward, we need the power and voice of UGC news, as well as the curatorial tools and fact checking chops of working Journalists to help us filter signal from noise.

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Social environments can help improve our context about business relationships but it is still on us to understand and filter this context to make decisions.

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But do we trust Apple to filter our stream for us at this point?

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And our runners-up: Michael Bonner, a flag writer in the US Navy, went as Instagram in hipster-filter , and shared multiple photos on imgur and Instagram, obviously.

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If the lights weren't there, naturally we would approach slowly and carefully and see what other people were doing and filter through, but the traffic lights make us speed up to beat them.

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It grants us new layers of anonymity and distance and changes the way we can filter our social interactions.

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Today, there are so many options available and we each have to find a way to find, filter, consume and share the information that is relevant for us.

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