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Published on Oct 15, 2012

Chicago 2012: 'Media assassin' Adam Curry talks MTV, Skittles and Bud, Michael Jackson, helicopters, inventing the podcast, Steve Jobs and the growing fund-it-and-do-it-yourself trend in pretty much everything.

"Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks" is a 10-minute film and an accompanying TED Book. Based on new research on how to best nurture children's brains from...

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When we asked Bill Gates to curate a list of his favorite TEDTalks, his first response was, “There are too many to pick, really.” Here are his 13 essentials.

TED Talks In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.

This is the Second Edition of We Are Social's exploration of Social, Digital and Mobile in Asia. This overview report contains high-level data for 24 countries across the region. Please see our individual country reports for in-depth details of specific countries.

The days are past (if they ever existed) when a person, company or brand could tightly control their reputation -- online chatter and spin mean that if you're relevant, there's a constant, free-form conversation happening about you that you have no control over. Tim Leberecht offers three big ideas about accepting that loss of control, even designing for it -- and using it as an impetus to recommit to your values.

As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the public can learn their stories. With glorious images, he shows how his curation philosophy works for displaying medieval tapestries—and for the over-the-top fashion/art of Alexander McQueen. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

Thomas P. Campbell, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, aims to make the venerable museum's offerings both narrative-driven and accessible.

The Future Of “Smobile”Henry BlodgetCEO, Business InsiderSeptember 27, 2012

Jonathan Boutelle and Rashmi Sinha, founders of the presentation-sharing site SlideShare, describe the entrepreneurial process as a series of pivots. Boutelle explains it's not just a jump, but an evolving growth of stages that leads to an idea that can start a business. From there, Sinha says that focused execution keeps the vision moving forward. By continually measuring the activity, they both believe that entrepreneurs can better recognize the growth stages of their company.

Culture Lab: Catalyzing Innovation through ArtScience - Dave Edwards explains how a philosophy and a practice of fusing art, science, experiential learning, and social impact are catalyzing innovation in todays students by igniting their curiosity and giving them the freedom to pursue their creative inventions. Presented at the 1st TEDxBoston on July 28, 2009.

TED Talks The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of '405'. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

More info, background and info on future releases can be at facebook.com/pages/World-Builder/73936485659 Become a fan and keep in touch.

Social media is out of beta. We’re entering the era of validation. In the Validation Era, intimacy is in and publicness may be out - or at least on the decline. Quality is the new black. What this means that both individuals and businesses will need to increasingly work harder to earn their way in and remain in their stakeholders' circle of trust. During this session, Steve Rubel will explain how businesses can activate their domain-level experts to share their knowledge across four spheres of media – traditional, “tradigital,” owned and social.

TEDxSummit brings together TEDx organizers from around the world for a week of workshops, collaborative projects, regional and cross-regional brainstorming, talks, special events and cultural activities. The 2012 event, held in Doha, Qatar, was be the first time this amazing global TEDx community gathered in person to formulate a shared vision for the future of the TEDx platform.

Ethan Zuckerman uses data to shine a light on the affronts of censorship. A passionate advocate for free speech in the developing world, Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT. Current projects include the study of tools for censorship circumvention and the Media Cloud framework for the quantitative study of digital media. Zuckerman is the founder of Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps, and cofounder of Global Voices Online, an ever-growing network of international citizen-bloggers. Zuckerman will give insight into the interplay of established and social media and their relationship to shifting power structures.

TED Talks You might have a 5-year plan, but what about a 200-year plan? Artist Raghava KK has set his eyes on an ultra-long-term horizon; at TEDxSummit, he shows how it helps guide today's choices and tomorrow's goals -- and encourages you to make your own 200-year plan too.

The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.

The New School presents Tim Brown, Chief Executive Officer and President of IDEO, a global design consultancy, in conversation with Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek Contributing Editor and Visiting Professor of Innovation and Design at The New School. Nussbaum and Brown discuss some of the critical issues facing design and innovation today, on the occasion of the publication of Brown's new book, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation.

U of Michigan Students apply Design Thinking to Social Venture Creation

Watch this video to learn problem-solving tools and frameworks pioneered by the Design Group at Stanford and innovative ways for you to overcome the challenges you face and gain a competitive advantage you need.

(October 26, 2009) Dennis Boyle, part-time Assistant Professor at Stanford, discusses IDEO's approach to problem solving that brings together people from different disciplines to effectively explore new ideas that are better able to be executed and that generate valuable outcomes.

New York Times journalist David Brooks has written a book called "The Social Animal". In this discussion, he talks about the power of the unconscious mind and its impact on our lives, also that the type of relationship a child forms with its mother is indicative of future relations a child will form. He also believes in the value of emotional, rather than logical, decisions, which be ascertains, form the foundation of who we are.

EPIC 2020, stands for the proposition that the education of the world will change dramatically for the better during this decade. The two movies that follow and this site hope to provide tools that shatter the paradigm that the future will be anything like the past as well as facilitate discussion and accelerate actions to bring about the transformation of the education of the world.

“Chaotic. Unpredictable. Randomn. Very useful.” This is how David Weinberger, author, technologist and philosopher, describes flickr - a wonderful example of social knowledge. In his closing keynote at NEXT Berlin 2012 he explains how the internet changed knowledge and why our old institutions of knowledge fell apart.

At NMC Summer Conference 2012, Joichi Ito discusses innovation in open networks, the nature of risk, startups and the role and trajectory of the MIT Media Lab in this environment. Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He is also General Manager of Neoteny Labs, a startupfund focusing on Asia and the Middle East.

Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker & Liang Wu: 1) review Internet stats and notes that Internet growth remains robust and rapid mobile adoption is still in early stages;

Auf der re:publica12 haben wir den chinesischen Blogger und Aktivisten Isaak Mao zu seiner Theorie des "Sharism", den Eigenheiten des chinesischen (digital-)...

A dynamic athlete-turned-entrepreneur, Maria is a vocal champion of the youth entrepreneurship culture. By combining her twin passions for physical fitness and technology, she has revolutionized the health and fitness movement by extending the reach of mobile technology into this fast-growing market. Gymnastics, yoga, rock climbing, mountaineering -- you'd think that one person couldn't have done it all.

But you'd have thought wrong. Maria has practiced yoga at K2 base camp, initiated rock climbing missions that carry some of the highest difficulty grades, and has represented Canada at the World Cheerleading and Dance Championships. It's all in a day's work, really.

In this Community Management Crib notes video I discuss the changing state of community management, and what opportunities and challenges lay ahead for this young science.

I cover the history of community management, it's early leaders and innovations, and how the science of understanding and growing collaborative behavior is solidifying and changing with the advent of new technologies, social norms, and cultural challenges. I also cover the direct business opportunities for harnessing this new science, and some of the risks and pitfalls associated with it.

TED Talks Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self- organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.

The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.

After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately -- all for free.

This presentation is a companion to our trend report that explores the FOMO phenomenon, identifying which cohort is most prone to FOMO and how they respond to it, spotlighting how FOMO is manifesting in the zeitgeist, and looking at the wide-ranging potential for brands seeking to tap into FOMO.

The creation of NeXT is one of the most fascinating segments of the career of Steve Jobs.

This video is from a series called Entrepreneurs, that documents the creation of NeXT. The real gems here are the way that Steve interacts with the team, shooting down what he feels are silly ideas and encapsulating several minutes of brainstorming with explicit goals.

My favorite phrase comes in relation to a statement he makes about making the best software for higher education,”If we can’t do that, then we oughta go broke.”

Cole Gillespie is a 2012 Knight-Mozilla Fellow at Zeit Online, one of five fellows who will be joining leading newsrooms for a year to help them solve technology problems.
Gillespie is a JavaScript developer originating from deep within the North Carolina Appalachians. In recent years he has spent his time in Raleigh, North Carolina, working with various companies including Project Mastermind, National Geographic, CNN and IBM. He spends most of his free time playing music, hacking open source projects or trolling in IRC trying to keep up with the web's rapid evolution.

Shima'a Helmy joins filmmakers and friends Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton onstage at PopTech to talk about their collaboration on an upcoming documentary film, If. The film explores what it's like being a young revolutionary through the eyes of four different Egyptian women, including Helmy.

Caroline Drucker presents How to Get More Women in Tech in Under a Minute at Ignite NYC

A leader in both science and social innovation, Dr. Hayat Sindi launched i2, the Institute for Imagination and Ingenuity at PopTech 2011. Dr. Sindi created the institute to bridge the gap between education and opportunity in the Middle East.

Salesforce founder +Marc Benioff was interviewed by Forbes recently. The full discussion is about the impact of social media on large organizations.

TED Talks Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. At TEDxBloomington he shows how his group, Improv Everywhere, uses these scenes to bring people together.

Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. Roger performs 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he plays bass and guitar. Moonalice pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live Mooncast (video) concerts, the Couch Tour. Moonalice's single, "It's 4:20 Somewhere" has been downloaded more than 845,000 times.