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Taking advantage of this symbiosis would open the door for bigger advertisers selling sports equipment or bathing suits, as well as small, long-tail advertisers, such as kite-surfing teachers looking for students in their zip code.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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For it is pretty clear that the rise of kite-surfing, invented in the late 1990s, is slowly killing wind-surfing.
There's Nothing So Old as the Recently New Matt Ridley 2011
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A retired software engineer for J.P. Morgan Chase, who lives in Pinecrest, Fla., he caught the kite-surfing bug just before he had to undergo knee-replacement surgery in 2008.
Time to Learn to Kite Surf ... at Age 70 Sarah Rose 2012
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Now kite-surfing equipment packs smaller and costs less than wind surfing's, the skills are easier to learn, the speed is as great — greater in light winds — and it can be done on land in the form of kite-karting.
There's Nothing So Old as the Recently New Matt Ridley 2011
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People have already crossed hundreds of miles of ocean by kite-surfing, from the Canaries to Morocco, for example, and from Tasmania to Australia.
There's Nothing So Old as the Recently New Matt Ridley 2011
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Taking advantage of this symbiosis would open the door for bigger advertisers selling sports equipment or bathing suits, as well as small, long-tail advertisers, such as kite-surfing teachers looking for students in their zip code.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The bay, divided by a thin strip of land, is one of the world's most famous kite-surfing spots, though it's perfectly suitable for windsurfing too.
In Search of a Billionaire's Paradise Aude Lagorce 2011
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Watching friends learn kite-surfing last week, equipped not only with new designs of inflatable kites shaped like pterodactyls but new kinds of harnesses shaped like medieval chastity belts and even new helmets shaped like Elizabethan sleeping caps, it occurred to me that nothing becomes obsolete so fast as something new.
There's Nothing So Old as the Recently New Matt Ridley 2011
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A financial journalist turned innovation consultant (for clients ranging from the British government to Microsoft), Leadbeater noticed the rise of "pro-ams" -- passionate amateurs who act like professionals, making breakthrough discoveries in many fields, from software to astronomy to kite-surfing.
TEDTalks: Charles Leadbeater: Education Innovation in the Slums 2010
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Graham: Besides a laptop, some clothes and not too many shoes and (laughs) I do have this unfortunate kite-surfing addiction (points to four huge surfboard-sized duffel bags not he floor).
Kirsten Dirksen: LifeEditing: Cut Space, Possessions, Media, Friends and Be Happier 2010
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