As with the Facebook, Twitter, Quora and even Google+ integrations, Klout helps position Microsoft as the more open and socially-attuned alternative to Google's still-dominant search product.
Its small, nondescript headquarters recently had a face lift that included a neon sign and neatly laid-out lawns -- a fitting symbol for a company that styles its dairy products as cheap, strictly vegetarian alternatives attuned to local tastes.
To ward off the nagging sense that a move to the suburbs is tantamount to becoming like one's parents, this urban-zen generation is seeking out palatable alternatives — culturally attuned, sprawl-free New York river towns like Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington and Tarrytown — and importing the trappings of a twee lifestyle like bearded mixologists, locavore restaurants and antler-laden boutiques.
Microsoft says it will give drivers alternative route information that is more accurate and attuned to current traffic patterns on both freeways and side streets.
As an alternative, Krause describes the Ba'Aka (the Babenzélé Pygmies), attuned to every rustle and croak: "The biophony was the equivalent of a lush, natural karaoke orchestra with which they performed".
But, strategists acknowledge, Mr. Romney still has work to do before those critical swing voters will view him as that alternative, particularly with polls showing that voters see him as less attuned to their needs and values than Mr. Obama is.
An alternative explanation, however, is that subjects who do not control camera movement and who are not otherwise attuned to how the camera is moving are simply unable to extract any information about the structure of the distal scene from the incoming pattern of sensory stimulations.
Several social movements and NGOs were co-opted or attuned their ideas to the neoliberal agendas, thus progressively losing their legitimacy as a critical voice capable of proposing alternatives to the status quo.
"We're very attuned to that".
In fact, he was market attuned.
But it is just as politically attuned.
