TED Talk – Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
In 1993, while a student in England, Drew Curtis began sending links to his friends. Over time that grew until he founded a website for the links: Fark.com. The site has now grown into one of the largest, and most irreverant, news aggregators on the web. Drew Curtis tells the story of how he fought [...]
Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming – TED Talk
Has our technology — our cell phones and iPods and cameras — stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos “Khoya,” her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of pure creativity. I found this very interesting. Shilo Shiv Suleman is an [...]
Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral
Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth event. Many others will come on line next month as part of our TED-Ed launch. “In [...]
Seth Godin – Tribes. Why they are important to marketing.
There is no doubt that the internet opens up many opportunities for each of us to find and communicate with people that have similar interests to us. Most of us have joined a group, a club, or a forum that we visit regularly to talk about or interact with what we love most. From a [...]
SOPA: Clay Shirky’s P.O.V
With SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) on the tip of everyone’s tongue, Clay Shirky offers a unique point of view on this movement that has the potential to change how we interact, create and view the web. What are your thoughts on SOPA? Is it necessary? Yours, Belinda. [...]
Cut
Recent findings from a number of large scale studies of consumers and their habits suggest that less choice equals more sales. Interestingly, secondary conclusions for this hypothesis suggest that less choice converted to quicker decision processing and therefore greater sale conversion. Could these findings be due to the time poor nature of consumer habits or [...]
The Shared Experience of Absurdity
Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, “ghostbusters” running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. At TEDxBloomington he showed how his group, Improv Everywhere, uses these scenes to bring people together and as I see it make people smile and [...]
Kid’s know best
An inspiring TED talk from 6th grader Thomas Suarez.
TED Talk – by Luis von Ahn – Massive Scale Online Collaboration
Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone. After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his [...]
What has happened to our Communication?
Wow, I’ve just watched a fascinating TED Talk with the Brio Group Team this morning that really makes you think about what has happened with the backward evolution of our human interaction, communication and lack of personal contact. Sherry Turkle, author of ‘Alone Together’, explains how todays generation of teenagers have been brought up competing [...]