Twitter{Vision|Flickr} 3D
May 22, 2007
“Get a sense of our planet.”
via Twitter Blog
New TED site for the rest of us to join the conversation
April 16, 2007
TED Blog: The New TED.com launches today Monday April 16th:
“With the launch of our new website, we’re really saying to the world: We want to share with you our best content for free, and we want you to connect with like-minded people inspired by these talks. In other words, we see the site as a way of dramatically expanding our community from the 1000 people who attend the conference to millions of knowledge seekers around the globe.”
Some of the most interesting features:
- chapter-marking technology that lets users find and skip to key moments in a given talk
- ratings system more nuanced than the typical 5-star approach, allowing users to describe talks with adjectives
- high-resolution video that can be viewed online or downloaded for playback on a computer, iPod or set-top box
- detailed talk summaries and speaker biographies to provide more context around each talk
- innovative ways to browse talks, which are grouped into TED-like themes, such as “Inspired by Nature,” “How the Mind Works” and “Tales of Invention”
- social-networking tools—including Profile Pages, Comments and Favorites—that allow for interaction among members of the extended TED community
Many of the talks are so dense and often resound with each other: having tools to mark, rate, annotate, and link them can surely enhance their value.
I am looking forward to explore the new site, what it has to offer, and most of all I’m thrilled by the potential of an enlarged community that may build around it.
TED2007
March 2, 2007
TED2007 will be next week.
TED brings together extraordinary people from every area of thought, work and culture, and lo and behold, astonishing connections are made, excitement and inspiration follow.
It works this way because all knowledge is connected.
After four days, you gain an understanding of how your own work fits into the larger web of knowledge.
