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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Category Archives: Globalization
Comedian Maz Jobrani at TED
Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
Maz is one of my favorite comedians. Found him on the The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (iTunes Link) tour and have purchased his performances on iTunes (iTunes Link). So glad to see him perform at a TED event.
Also posted in Education, Innovation, TED
Tagged axis of evil comedy, axis of evil comedy tour, comedians, itunes, maz jobrani, TED
Freakonomics the movie
The movie everyone should have been waiting to see….on your computer before at the cinemas.
In an unusual move Freakonomics the Movie is coming to iTunes first on September 3rd and then to a theater on October 1.
Since I read this book (review)
Tags: SUPERFreakonomics, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Economics, datasets, innovation, energy, population, poverty, [...]
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Tagged economics, Innovation, population, poverty, stephen dubner, steven levitt, superfreakonomics, trends
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Sometimes a 2.0 release is viewed as a fix for shortcomings in the initial release of just about any product….except this update from Tom Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America.
I read version 1.0 as soon as it hit bookshelves and was just amazed at [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Green, Innovation, OpenSource, Technology, cyberinfrastructure
Tagged america, business, change, culture, economy, Education, energy, environment, first solar, flat, global warming, Globalization, Green, green revolution, Innovation, leadership, offshoring, outsourcing, planet earth, Reading, recession, research, revolution, solar, Technology, toledo, tom friedman, trends, wall street
My latest read – Cognitive Surplus
Remember the last time you read a great story that you caught yourself peaking at the remaining unread pages because you didn’t want the story to end? That’s how I can best describe Clay Shirky’s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. His stories were coming to a close before I was [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Innovation, Interactive, Reading, Technology, Web2.0
Tagged 9/11, bandwidth, change, clay shirky, college, community, content, copy, copyright, culture, download, downloading, ebook, ipod, itunes, movies, mp3, music, music industry, napster, Network, networking, perfect storm, piracy, sharing, social, social networking, tipping point, trends, youtube
Kindle v3.0 on the way ?
Amazon plans to introduce a new version of their Kindle e-book reader in August. However after a recent price cut just three weeks ago, Amazon is now out of their current Kindle and their site suggests a new model is on the way.
The device is rumored to be even thinner an updated refresh screen and [...]
Also posted in Design, HighRes, Reading, Tablet
Tagged amazon, ebook reader, enhanced imaging, kindle, new model, touch screen
My latest read – The Big Short
Credit default swaps. Those infamous three words. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is a fast-paced, right-to-the-point story about CDS and the collapse of Wall Street. While recent best sellers have addressed big players and multiple companies involved in the crash Lewis’s focus is just credit default swaps, how they were [...]
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Tagged billion dollars, bond market, burry, cdos, consumers, credit default swaps, doomsday machine, economic collapse, eisman, financial giants, Goldman, greed, lippmann, michael lewis, research, subprime loans, wall street
My latest read – On the Brink
A financial crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson faced the largest crisis in our country’s modern history with a great opportunity. His first hand account of the near collapse of our financial economy is detailed in On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial [...]
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Tagged bear stearns, business, chief executive officer, china, complete system failure, credit crisis, crisis, economy, Fannie, fannie mae, fannie mae and freddie mac, federal reserve, financial economy, Freddie, george w bush, global financial system, Goldman, goldman sachs, Henry Paulson, indymac, john ehrlichman, knowledge, lehman brothers, lending institutions, nixon, nixon administration, reform, regulatory powers, Stearns, too big to fail, Treasury, treasury secretary, united states treasury, wall street, watergate, watergate scandal
BMW supporting Apple’s iOS4
Yesterday BMW announced it will support Apple’s iOS 4 in their BMW and Mini product lines. By integrating iPod Out in iOS4 users of iPhones 3G/3GS/4 & iPod Touch 2nd/3rd generations to output and display Apple’s iPod interface on the vehicle’s dashboard display and controlled by the vehicle’s controls.
To no surprise BMW’s controller is called [...]
Also posted in Audio, BMW, Design, Education, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Rich media, Smartphone, Technology
Tagged apple, BMW, culture, Innovation, interface, ios, ipod, mobile, music, tipping point, trends
Google to build multiple fiber cities ?
Google may launch more than one “fiber city” in America. This cyberinfrastructure project could will be a tipping point for a few lucky cities.
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Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
Also posted in Education, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, Technology, cyberinfrastructure
Tagged access, america, bandwidth, broadband, change, culture, cyberinfrastructure, economy, Education, fibre, flat, future, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, tipping point, trends, US
Internet Retail
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Also posted in Design, Education, Innovation, Interactive, Network
Tagged decisions, digital marketplace, information, retail internet, shoppers, shopping