TED is holding an open audition to discover new speakers for TED 2012, especially those that use new presentation techniques, engaging media or storytelling styles. To participate you just need to make a 1′ minute video showing a bit your -hopefully- innovative and interesting way of presenting and you might be picked for a …
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The next step in the Radical Openness approach of TED was announced today at SXSW Interactive by June Cohen (profile, twitter), Executive Producer of TED Media.
The initiative consistis in “open sourcing TED’s CODE” through an API that will give developers around the world access to all the talks (currently about 900) and the associated meta-data …
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The Arab World is in revolt… one full of hope that will surely define the start of a new era. Wadah Khanfar, Director General of Al Jazeera, makes a passionate description of what is happening right now and what the outcome could be. This was the first talk from TED 2011 published online. Enjoy and …
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Another week on the road has passed, including a visit to the World Business Forum in Milan, and the following items are the ones that captured my attention.
Creative Commons (CC) has launched a fund-raising campaign with the goal of collecting 500,000 USD by December 31st, 2010. I consider CC an invaluable tool to spread …
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Came across a Tweet by @katzy saying: “Dawn of the Ted” bbc silliness http://youtu.be/61RJGQcG_sM
I clicked thinking it was an article on the dawn of the TED Conferences by the BBC with some kind of stupid argument on what might happen to it. Instead it was something very different from that but still made an …
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After a week on the road and pretty disconnected, I collected a series of news and interesting links from the usual suspects (TED, Lift…). Instead of a photo, today I’m including an extract from the Design Mind Salon with Bill Buxton (+ Tjeerd Hoek and Marcel Kampman) on “how design triggers transformation”.
Lift Conference has …
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Inspired by frog design’s “remarketables” (weekly collection of remarkable marketing links) and by the amount of interesting stuff I come across (news, articles, tweets) but don’t have the time to publish as an individual blogpost, I’m starting a “Worth Noting This Week” series of articles, plus the selection of an interesting photo from a …
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Today TED launched a free iPad App (iTunes) that expands their platform for spreading worthy ideas. The app is beautifully and intuitively designed.
The App focuses on just one thing and that is watching talks, but does offer plenty of resources to search and discover new ones. Apart from the “featured” talks, you can search …
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Conferences are a totally different beast when it comes to photography. Duncan Davidson (LinkedIn, journal, twitter), the photographer that -amongst other things- has covered the last six major TED events, shares some practical tips that matter when reporting what happens at conference. From equipment that can handle high ISO or high shutter speeds to …
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On July 12-16 2010 TED Global took place in Oxford, UK. The main theme was “And Now the Good News” and it gathered about 700 attendees and more than 60 speakers on the main stage (not including side events).
This was my first “big” TED (so now I ain’t no TED virgin no more!) and …
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