By using social tools and lightweight Web apps, travel companies have moved toward a model that lets consumers experience their trips before setting foot in a plane and use discovery rather than search to make their trip, their trip, not a trip.

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This means that users who are interested in a particular function or part of an organ can import this information from another model over the web, and incorporate it into their own models using their own programming language.

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