No one likes to keep track of their time, particularly not professionals and there is a bit of gallows humor thrown around law firms.

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This is the tool that corporations everywhere have been waiting for: a way to stand over the shoulder of every employee, 24 hours a day, and keep track of exactly how much time he or she is really spending on his or her work.

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Also, the U.S. government did not keep track of mining activity at the time.

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Not enough time in the week to keep track of the latest and greatest developments in the tech world?

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Yet aside from athletes who like to keep track of running or swimming times with a stopwatch, when was the last time you bought a watch that was intended for anything more than telling time and making a fashion statement?

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And by the time we were on the Syrian border we could barely keep track of gasoline smugglers, much less deal with, you know, all the other day-to-days of a fully mature insurgency.

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Activity streams complement them by allowing employees to keep track of activities and messages from many different networks of people, groups and even applications in a stream of content over time, again conceptually similar to Twitter.

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