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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: 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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My latest read – Remix
Regrettably the Vancouver Olympics interrupted my reading pattern and its been a slow recovery. I blogged about this book as soon as I learned it was in production back in August. Yikes!
I have been following Larry Lessig’s work on copyright and our digital culture for some time, reading his positions online, previous books and keynote [...]
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Tagged art and commerce, control content, copy, copyright, creative commons, digital culture, economy, Education, education business, larry lessig, media content, media empires, monetary gain, multimedia content, Network, old money, riaa, society, technology leaders, TED, universal music, unprecedented growth, youtube
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.
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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 of [...]
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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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Comedian Maz Jobrani at TED
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