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My TED favorites- Fellows Friday with Sean Blagsvedt
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- An independent diplomat: Carne Ross on TED.com
- Art of substance and absence: Alwar Balasubramaniam on TED.com
- Why I’m excited about TEDxChange, by Melinda Gates
- The child-driven education: Sugata Mitra on TED.com
- Powerful first-person reports from Pakistan, from TED’s Chris Anderson
- Lifesavers: Saturday TEDTalks Playlist
- Report from a Mission Blue hope spot: The Sargasso Sea
- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
Category Archives: Audio
Laptop orchestra to Beijing via Internet2
Stanford’s Laptop Orchestra will perform via Internet2 to Beijing, over 6,000 miles away via HD video and audio in a performance marking the annual Pan-Asian Music Festival in Palo Alto on Tuesday May 5th.
Tags: Internet2, laptop, orchestra, community, globalization, trends
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Tagged asian music, china, Internet2, laptop, music festival, palo alto, stanford
Philadelphia Orchestra: Live via Internet2
Friday afternoon Milwaukee’s Discover World hosted a live performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra via Internet2. The Philadelphia Orchestra Association is a member of Internet2.
The HD video concert was projected in Discovery World’s Digital Theater which provides viewers with a spectacular 27foot wide high definition image with a 2048×1920 resolution picture.
Early arrival at Discovery World
The [...]
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BMW integrates iPhone
BMW has once again integrated Apple technology.
Although announced months ago BMW has recently posted details online. To date iPhones are compatible with the 2007 line of vehicles. Its another look at BMW and Apple, two of the most known brands working to provide a seamless integration of their respective products.
BMW was the [...]
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Philadelphia Orchestra + Internet2
Internet2 is quickly becoming the performance stage for music. Philadelphia’s orchestra was stuck with declining audiences for its main subscription series and a downturn in ticket revenue. Pretty typical of many of today’s performing arts that must compete with consumers who have many more choices.
Their solution? Plan future performances over Internet2. [...]
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Open Yale
Have you ever wanted to take a class on Modern Poetry taught by a distinguished scholar?
Yale University has joined MIT and select institutions of higher learning by placing academic courses online, inviting anyone around the globe (this means you) to participate. Today seven courses are available with additional courses on the way.
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Why DRM is failing
Digital Rights Management or DRM, has been a controversial snippet of software embedded into music files for a long time. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM wrapper or Apple’s FairPlay for iTunes it appears the coming death of DRM is from two powerhouses in online sales: Amazon and Wal-Mart.
Funny that [...]
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Amazon’s new music store
Today Amazon opened the beta door to their new music store amazonmp3beta and as the name suggests, everything is available in mp3 format. In comparison Apple’s iTunes format is AAC for all those millions of iPods.
Amazon MP3 offers the top 100 songs for 89 cents each and the top 100 albums for $8.99, with [...]
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NBC: slap the iTunes hand that feeds you?
Apple’s iTunes music store has been a benefit to NBC and other TV networks selling episodes and full seasons of their television programming worldwide. A number of NBC shows and special programming events have been online for $1.99/episode.
To prove money greed makes the world go round NBC has broken off relations with the iTunes [...]
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Designers: Core Animation
Lets face it: Today many graphic designers are programmers. They have been moving into the coding world for a number of years. Most cut their teeth on Web 1.0’s plain old HTML. With one foot in Flash’s ActionScript and JavaScript were clearly the sign to jump in with both feet. This acquired knowledge and [...]
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OLPC: The remix
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Tagged laptop per child, negroponte, OLPC, prototype