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My TED favorites- 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
- Help the Abreu Fellows win a grant
- Before Avatar ... a curious boy: James Cameron on TED.com
- The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com
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Category Archives: TED
Visualization changes everything
Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends
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My latest read: Outliers: The Story of Success
I’m not sure why it took so long to read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book Outliers: The Story of Success but I’m sure glad its just as enjoyable as his books The Tipping Point and Blink. As defined scientifically Outliers is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. Gladwell not only [...]
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My favorite OS for kids
Sugar is a great little OS for little learners around the world. Its the way an OS and laptop should be introduced to children. Engineered for Children…what a concept.
Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, Amazon, XO, open source, globalization, trends
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Tagged amazon, children, Education, give one get one, OLPC, one laptop per child, sugar labs, xo, XO laptop
On my reading list
Looking forward to Larry Lessig’s new bookRemix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Larry has documented how the music and movie industries are turning students into criminals because they use cheap software, the internet and their creativity. His presentation at TED hilights the core principals of his upcoming book.
The power and impact [...]
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Whats new is now old
Microsoft’s Photosynth was a hit at TED last year and looked to be really promising regardless of running only on XP SP2 and Vista (shame on you Microsoft) but the same team along with the University of Washington has moved forward with new photo, video and VR technologies:
This should be a very interesting mashup of [...]
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Tagged imaging, Interactive, pano, panoramic, photo, photography, photosynth, render, TED, user experience, Virtual Reality, vr
50 million viewers cannot be wrong
TED is amazing don’t you think?
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My latest read – Innovation Nation
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back from John Kao is a timely read. To say I enjoyed his lessons how America is losing it’s innovation lead was not pleasant experience, yet the book is highly engaging.
There are timely lessons [...]
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Tagged brazil, china, economy, globalizaiton, india, Innovation, innovation nation, kao, leadership, singapore, Technology
OLPC: The remix
Max’s first laptop will be the new One Laptop Per Child prototype announced this morning by Nichoals Negroponte. No “keyboard” since both sides of this ebook reader will support a virtual keyboard.
But I’d like to buy a 1st Gen unit too. And I’ll config it to run Sugar.
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Transforming how we experience imaging
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Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED