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My TED favorites- A scene from TED's Saturday SXSW panel
- New Best of the Web talk: Gary Vaynerchuk
- The magic of the placebo: Eric Mead on TED.com
- Come see TED's two panels at SXSW
- Ozomatli: Hear the new single and see our exclusive photos
- How I fell in love with a fish: Dan Barber on TED.com
- The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao
- Exclusive photos: The LXD in rehearsal
- In the Internet age, dance evolves: The LXD on TED.com
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Category Archives: Globalization
Transforming how we experience imaging
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging.
Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, HighRes, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Network, OpenSource, Rich media, Streaming, TED, Technology, Virtual Reality
Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED
Google: Think BIG with a gig
Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers.
Link to website
Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
Also posted in Design, Education, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, Streaming, Technology
Tagged consumers, experimental network, fiber, gig, gigabit, Google, high speed, home connections, internet access, internet speeds, Network, speed broadband, youtube
My latest read – Ahead of the Curve
The title of Philip Delves Broughton’s Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School was interesting enough to jump on my reading list but when I began to see his book mentioned in blogs and on twitter I pulled it from my wish list and dropped it into my cart. It was not [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Google, Innovation, Reading, green
Tagged banking, BMW, borderless world, broughton, case studies, competing in a flat world, daily telegraph, elite training, flat, flat world, future, Google, harvard business school, harvard commencement, harvard mba, jobs, losing touch, mba candidate, research, singapore, venture capital
My latest read – Our Choice
Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint.
Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]
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Tagged Al Gore, america, carbon footprint, change, china, climate crisis, coal, dramatic changes, energy, energy tool, environment, generation technologies, green, green fuels, india, internet, political rhetoric, population, population boom, social responsibility, Technology, TED
Large Hadron Collider’s big network
15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet.
In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]
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Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices
Microsoft’s Tablet ?
According to the UK Telegraph: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
I must admit there was not a lot of excitement from his presentation.
Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Tablet, CES, media player, magazine, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Innovation, Media Players, Reading, Tablet, Technology
Tagged consumer electronics show, consumer electronics show in las vegas, crowds, microsoft, microsoft chief executive, steve ballmer, Tablet, telegraph
Sports Illustrated Tablet
Sports Illustrated is highlighting a forthcoming tablet from Time Inc. It looks interesting but what is Time’s market for this type of product with their brands? How does a subscription their publications justify the hardware and annual subscription fees? Who is their wireless provider, how do I sync it to my laptop and what about [...]
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Tagged Design, download, magazine, magazine sports, sports illustrated, subscription fees, Tablet, time inc
Holiday reading
Holiday reading arrived today via mail. Many selections have been referred in previous books so I started tagging them after realizing more than one book pointed to the following:
Cell, The: Inside The 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It,
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy,
Integrity: Good [...]
OLPC – The mission
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Tagged child empowerment, laptop, laptop per child, OLPC, one laptop per child