This allows the shoppers to think outside of the four-walled structure of their possible new house and into the surrounding environment.
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Political discourse is harder, as is any consensus action, because the collaborative promise of an online global village has morphed into an endless number of walled and locked enclaves of exclusionary ideologies.
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DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) A landmark referendum held in Croatia has failed to derail plans for the construction of a large golf complex that could change the face of the ancient walled tourist resort of Dubrovnik.
At the neon-pink-walled factory of Soul Stix Surfboards, in the surf ghetto of San Clemente, Calif.
Consumers rebelled against the restrictive walled garden of AOL and left it in droves.
This leads to confusion among people and mutually inaccessible walled gardens of content, neither of which is good.
We parked next to a white-walled farm of some kind, surrounded by fields.
It is only the physicians who are stuck using the Visual Basic version, inside the Walled Garden of an Epic hospital.
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Even supposed open standards dorks these days are rushing headlong into the walled garden of gorgeousness we like to call Apple Computers.
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Google Reader is the ultimate personalized and customizable walled garden of content, and that is why I, and other devoted users, are inflamed by Google's announcement.
Near the medina and the Menara gardens, the hotel is set in 40 walled acres of Moorish gardens and every one of the 139 rooms and suites has a balcony that overlooks them.
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How many consumers are really going to jump at the chance to invest in yet another little walled garden of (even more expensive) music that doesn't transfer to any of the other devices they're already using?
We all know why this happens, of course -- the carriers love the walled garden policy of controlling how and why subscribers use their handsets.
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When night falls on Harar, the labyrinth alleyways of the walled Old Town fall silent, and the shadowy form of a hyena slinking through the narrow streets is not an uncommon sight.
There is no denying that the walled garden approach of Apple provides a better user experience to consumers who are not technically savvy.
Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, was determined that the web should be an open system, not a series of walled gardens controlled by governments or corporations.
Still, there is an extensive security presence in the walled colonial city of Cartagena for the summit -- including more than 7, 600 police officers and thousands more troops.
Rows of walled-off houses and small hotel complexes, most with a deliciously inviting pool just visible through a gate, testify to a place that takes its undisturbed leisure very seriously.
Apple ends up at the center of these conversations, both due to its prominence in the tech world and the famously tight controls it keeps on its "walled garden" of data.
Here in Qobtan Jebel, a pinprick village of century-old stone walled homes in the hills west of Aleppo, Mr. Shehab Eddin's word is law, at least for now.
Manila sprawls east from Manila Bay along the Pasig River, and immediately south of the river is Intramuros, the old walled Spanish town where many of the city's historical sites are found.
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The walled and moated city of Angkor Thom sits about a mile due north of Angkor Wat.
"AOL is so reluctant to let go of the walled garden, " says Mehdi.
Palenque de San Basilio was one of the walled communities called palenques, which were founded by escaped slaves as a refuge in the seventeenth century.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the building of the city walls that make Derry one of the finest examples of a walled city anywhere in Europe.
This looks a tall order, especially since Will Alsop, the architect responsible for the design, likened the planned outcome to the view of a walled Tuscan hill town.
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And then you have the local people who live there, many of whom are Pashtun, they belong to tribes that straddle the border, they don't want to see it walled and their freedom of movement restricted.
Ironically, in pushing for a greater adoption of web-based platforms like Firefox, Mozilla is pushing the idea of its own walled garden into extinction much in the same way that Netscape and AOL became less important with the spreading of an open internet and rise of individual online properties.
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