Posts Tagged ‘TED’
Beyond Social Media: Simcity Fail, Dove's "Real" Beauty & NBA's Social Slam Dunk [PODCAST]
This week’s highlights: Electronic Arts’ Simcity Fail; Dove’s “Real” Beauty App; Old Spice’s Director Of Marketing: Mr. Wolfdog; NBA’s Social Slam Dunk & more.
Read MoreVideo Streaming & Owned Media
Monthly alternative viewing of movies/television increased from 26% in 2010 to 35% in 2011.
Read MoreTemple Grandin Discusses Her Autistic Mind
In this TED talk, Temple Grandin explains how her autism caused her to perceive the world and led to her success in animal science.
Read MoreThe Paradox Of Choice – Barry Schwartz
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
Read MoreBook Review
Seth Godin’s Tribes is an easy read once you get used to Godin’s scattershot prose. It is also a good primer on the idea of tribes: A group of people who connect with one another based on a shared interest or idea.
Read MoreWiring A Web For Global Good
We’re at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic — and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.
Read MoreHow The Brain Creates Meaning
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections.
Read MoreThe Current Creative & Knowledge Renaissance
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Read MoreGoogle Ocean Demonstration
Sylvia Earle, a winner of the 2009 TED Prize, as she narrates this demo of Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth.
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