But whatever the content reviews, images, music how do you sift through it all to find what suits your preferences?

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Corporate America should "think very hard about their obligations as citizens of this country and to think very hard about how through their activities they can make it work for all of our citizens, " Mr. Summers said.

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But at the end of the day, it all depends on how serious companies are in following through with those plans.

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"It's all about how fast they can get customers through the checkout counter, " says Madeline Aufseeser, a payments-industry analyst at Aite Group LLC, a financial-services research firm, who is skeptical many large merchants would try surcharging for fear of angering consumers.

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Then as now, the Shift is really all about understanding the seismic changes that are totally altering society, how we communicate, who influences, and how we, as businesses, establish, maintain and grow our relevance through it all.

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All of my training in game design and my research into how games provoke positive emotions and build up our social relationships it all poked through the mental fog.

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The big question though is how the company gets through to 2014 without anything radically new to show for all of the wealth it has generated but keeps stashed away (and will now return to shareholders).

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How is it that we have all these policy obligations to help our less fortunate fellow citizens, through transfer payments and the like, but such limited obligations to people in other countries, many of whom are far poorer?

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Even at its most accessible, on the reggae-tinged "Cockermouth, " it remains tantalizingly elusive after all, how many songs can weave together a ramble through Wordsworth country, with mentions of The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and naturalist Henry David Thoreau?

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