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Coca-Cola Christmas

2008-12-01T06:59:00.000-08:00

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Most people can agree on what Santa Claus looks like -- jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he did not always look that way, and Coca-Cola advertising actually helped shape this modern-day image of Santa.

Google Analytics in 60 Seconds

2008-11-17T06:42:00.001-08:00

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Learn How to use Analytics to find top performing keywords and increase ROI.

Warren Buffett on Charlie Rose

2008-11-12T09:19:00.001-08:00

Seen on: Charlie Rose

The world's greatest stock market investor -- lives in a house he bought for $31,500, quotes Mae West. He's worth $36 billion ... give or take a few mil.

Google AdSense for Games

2008-11-09T22:52:00.001-08:00

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Do you develop or publish web-based games? If so, you're contributing to a growing trend - according to comScore, over 25% of Internet users play online games every week (200 million worldwide). As a beta user of AdSense for Games, you can display various ads within your online games to earn revenue.

Economist Report on International Banking

2008-10-14T16:55:00.000-07:00

Seen on: The Economist

"A diversified bank is like a cube of jelly-it wobbles but it doesn't break."

Alan Greenspan on Charlie Rose

2008-10-07T12:46:00.001-07:00

Seen on: Charlie Rose

A conversation with Alan Greenspan about his life, his 18 year tenure as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and his book, The Age of Turbulence.

Google Mobile Products on Android

2008-10-04T06:25:00.000-07:00

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Overview of Google products on the first Android-powered phone, T-mobile G1.

History of IBM SAGE

2008-10-01T03:49:00.000-07:00

Seen on: Web Marketing Network

Historical film outlines the development of SAGE computer system as a security-tool. Built by IBM, Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) computers were used in an early U.S. air defense system.

When fully deployed in 1963, the system consisted of 27 centers throughout North America, each with a duplexed AN/FSQ-7 computer system containing over 50,000 vacuum tubes, weighing 250 tons and occupying an acre of floor space.

Web is life. Television is furniture.

2008-09-15T16:46:00.000-07:00

In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some lessons and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."

Insights on Poverty

2008-09-01T20:24:00.001-07:00

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED-2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty.

Strangling Creativity

2008-07-27T04:06:00.000-07:00

Larry-Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, following this elegant presentation of three stories and an argument. The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some hilarious remixes.

Next Web Innovation

2008-07-01T23:35:00.000-07:00

The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush. Amazon.com founder Jeff-Bezos offers evidence showing how similar they were.

Google: Behind the Screen

2008-05-28T14:11:00.000-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

This documentary gives an in-depth look into the world of Google and search.

The Machine is Using Us

2008-05-24T21:04:00.000-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

"Web 2.0" in just under 5-minutes. Watch closely to learn & reap great rewards.

A Young Rebel

2008-05-24T13:35:00.000-07:00

Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank-Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings -- context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work.

The Smallinator

2008-05-22T04:44:00.000-07:00

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A transistor is the fundamental building block of all modern electronics...so how can we make them smaller? Artist Geoff McFetridge takes a frolic through the engineering wonders of the ever shrinking transistor that Intel is now creating.

The Business of Social Networks

2008-05-22T03:40:00.000-07:00

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Social-Networks have impacted millions of lives worldwide. Here's how and why.

Life in Design

2008-05-22T02:19:00.000-07:00

Novelist Amy-Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It's a wild ride with a surprise.

Thinking-Big and Scaling Up

2008-05-20T17:40:00.000-07:00

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Fazle Abed's organization BRAC has attained success in fighting poverty on an unparalleled scale -- in Bangladesh and now in several other countries. He shares his experiences as a leader of the citizen sector, and offers advice to like-minded organizations seeking to create viable, broad and long-lasting change.

Managing Your Salesforce

2008-05-18T17:22:00.000-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

Video demo explains why "connectivity is productivity". By combining two powerful applications to share information, it is possible to achieve-results.

Talk More, Listen More, Understand More

2008-05-18T17:17:00.000-07:00

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Google Sites, from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with your entire organization, or the world.

The Other Side of Outsourcing

2008-05-17T16:05:00.000-07:00

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A Thomas Friedman / Discovery Channel look at high-tech outsourcing to India.

Keep It Simple Stupid!

2008-05-16T22:53:00.001-07:00

David-Pogue opens his talk with a musical number about the trials of customer support, then launches into some sharp commentary on "The Software Upgrade Paradox" ("Improve a piece of software enough times, you eventually ruin it").

Thug-Life

2008-05-16T22:50:00.000-07:00

In an eye-opening talk -- presented before the publication of Freakonomics -- Steven-Levitt presents one of the book's more fascinating analyses. Sifting data collected through first-person interviews with a Chicago drug gang, he shows that drug dealing is not at all a quick route to riches.

Doing-Business in Africa

2008-05-16T22:46:00.000-07:00

Negative images of Africa dominate the news: famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance Minister of Nigeria, says there's a less-told story unfolding in many African nations: one of reform, economic growth and business opportunity. Cracking down on corruption -- and the perception of corruption -- will be the key to its success.

She tells how Nigerian officials taking money illicitly have been jailed, and prospective business partners are getting at least a partial picture now.

Inside Nanostellar

2008-05-16T19:29:00.001-07:00

Nanostellar CEO Pankaj Dhingra takes us into the lab where the company is cooking up new ways of reducing auto-emissions around the world.

The Five-Predictions

2008-05-16T19:23:00.000-07:00

Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas-Negroponte waxes on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word "convergence," Negroponte was thinking about the "electronic books of the future" and computers as the future of education.

In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED's 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone, and his own One Laptop per Child project.

Building an Android

2008-05-16T19:07:00.000-07:00

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Building an application on the Android platform, Google's mobile-adventure.

Power of the mobile-phone

2008-05-16T16:51:00.000-07:00

Why does poverty still exist despite decades of development aid?

In this talk, Iqbal-Quadir explains why "aid does damages: because it empowers authorities instead of people," and advocates a new approach to development from below, "by the people for the people." His own experience as a child in Bangladesh and later a banker in New York brought him to realize that "connectivity is productivity" -- and that a simple cell phone has enormous power. Now his telecom company, Grameenphone, offers service to most of rural Bangladesh, creating new opportunities by connecting villages.

Becoming Buddha -- on the Web

2008-05-16T15:31:00.000-07:00

In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob-Thurman, is our first step toward becoming Buddha. When we can know everything, we can see how everything is interconnected -- and we can begin to feel compassion for everything.

Google Social-Graph Introduction

2008-05-16T15:30:00.001-07:00

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Google's Brad-Fitzpatrick gives an introduction to the Social Graph API. The Social Graph API makes information about the public connections between people more easily available. Developers can query this public information to offer their users dramatically streamlined "add friends" functionality.

Analytics for Beginners

2008-05-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

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If you've just started to use Google Analytics and aren't sure which reports to look at, this video provides a helpful 1st-time walkthrough analysis.

Web-Analytics Success

2008-05-16T15:27:00.001-07:00

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Avinash Kaushik provides a detailed presentation on approaching Analytics.

Open-Source Economics

2008-05-16T14:42:00.000-07:00

Law professor Yochai-Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.

Efficient-Frontier

2008-05-15T23:10:00.000-07:00

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Efficient Frontier leverages the Google Content Network to assist their clients to reach beyond search, which helps them meet their ROI objectives.

Coca-Cola Christmas

2008-05-15T23:07:00.001-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

Most people can agree on what Santa Claus looks like -- jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he did not always look that way, and Coca-Cola advertising actually helped shape this modern-day image of Santa.

Android Demo

2008-05-15T23:03:00.001-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK for Android.

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Introducing Android

2008-05-15T23:01:00.000-07:00

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Comment: The creators of Android talk about their new open platform.

Semantic Web

2008-05-15T22:59:00.001-07:00

ABSTRACT >
The Semantic Web is a field aiming a the creation, deployment, and interoperation of machine readable data on the Internet.

In the talk: Projects in DERI on Semantic Web technologies - notably Semantic Interlinking of Online Community sites, Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering, and ActiveRDF, a library for Browsing, programming and navigating data.

The SIOC (Semantic Interlinking of Online Communities) project is an effort aiming at establishing and deploying a metadata vocabulary for interlinking and connecting distributed conversation on blogs and bulletin boards.

The vocabulary has been implemented in major open source software tools such as Wordpress, is gaining popularity and allows searching effectively.

Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering is a solution which adapts semantic web technologies to collaborative filtering solutions based on predefined social networks. In other words, users can classify and share their knowledge based on semantic annotations linked to existing knowledge organization systems.

Information Revolution

2008-05-15T22:43:00.000-07:00

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Changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information.

The First iMac Introduction

2008-05-15T22:41:00.001-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

Comment: Steve Jobs introducing the very first iMac in 1998. Interesting!

Data-Focused Marketing

2008-05-15T22:30:00.001-07:00

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A detailed presentation on evaluating data, from the Conversion University.

Meet an AdSense publisher

2008-05-15T22:23:00.000-07:00

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AsktheBuilder.com's Tim Carter is one publisher who's been able to do great things with AdSense. Here's his story on moving from building houses to building websites and how AdSense has helped him grow.

"Connectivity is Productivity"

2008-05-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

Hector-Ruiz talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the Internet. Ruiz is the CEO of AMD, and through AMD's 50x15 initiative, Ruiz and his company hope to connect 50% of the world to the Internet by 2015.

Building Social Business Ventures

2008-05-15T22:01:00.001-07:00

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Dr. Yunus shares his strategies for building businesses dedicated to the social good. He describes the founding and structure of Grameen Bank, Grameenphone and other companies he has created to find new solutions.

Innovator for the Poor

2008-05-15T21:59:00.000-07:00

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In response to the overwhelming poverty in Bangladesh, Fazle H. Abed created the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, or BRAC. His organization has already helped lift over 35 million people out of poverty through comprehensive education, health-care and microfinance programs in Bangladesh.

Related Link > Image Day - Perfect Fit?

The Grameen Story

2008-05-15T21:51:00.000-07:00

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The story of an organization which has made a difference to millions of lives.

Creating a Poverty-Free World

2008-05-15T21:50:00.001-07:00

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Dr. Yunus, awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, offers his insights into what is required to eradicate global poverty. Yunus envisions a new kind of capitalism, and demonstrates how his organizations, the Grameen-Bank and the Grameen Family of Companies, offer viable solutions to pervasive poverty.

Nike "Momentum" Commercial

2008-05-15T21:45:00.000-07:00

Seen on: YouTube

Title: "Momentum"

City: Barcelona

Agency: VillarRosàs

Celebrities: Ronaldinho, Pau Gasol, Fernando Torres

Related Link: ....HOW ADVERTISING SPOILED ME....

Nike: 25 Years of Force

2008-05-15T21:35:00.001-07:00

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Nike Air-Force ad: The modern history of basketball from the '80s to present.

Transform adidas

2008-05-15T21:27:00.000-07:00

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Brand New School traces out the history of the computer for adidas.

Impossible Is Nothing

2008-05-15T21:19:00.001-07:00

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Lionel-Messi in an adidas ad. He talks about turning problems to advantages.

Open Forum Davos 2003

2008-05-15T21:15:00.001-07:00

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Open Forum: What Innovations Lead to Social and Economic Changes?

The promotion of sustainable economic development around the world must integrate the poor as active producers and consumers. To this end, social entrepreneurs are creating possibilities in unique ways.

The agenda points are:
The practices that make a difference?
The impact of increased access to markets by poor producers?

Open-Innovation in Services

2008-05-15T21:09:00.000-07:00

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Over the last few years, BT has been transforming its business from a telco to a networked service provider, based on "new wave" revenues.

BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) is an important part of that transition. It is an end-to-end IP-based network, which will consolidate BT's complex networks and systems on to a single infrastructure. In particular, it will enable the creation of new converged communications and information services -- by BT, third parties and its customers. 21CN is a platform for open innovation.

"American’s eat 75 acres of pizza a day."

2008-05-15T20:58:00.001-07:00

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Papa John's, the third-largest pizza chain, has passed the $1 billion milestone through online sales. While Facebook is tightening its privacy-features.