Archive for the 'TED Talks' Category

Seth Godin: Sliced Bread, Ideas that Spread are Bizarre by Nature

The success of sliced bread is whether you can spread the idea or not. Nowadays, we could say, the success of sliced books, mags etc. (selling chapters, or even pages separately, besides full books) depends on idea spreading too.
“In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to ignore […]

TED is open: free views of TED Talks, and free talks of Ted users

TED has started its social networking project by not only letting people take part in TED events free of charge (free downloads of 20-minute thought-provoking talks), but also encouraging viewers, occasional site visitors to sign up for its TED social networking services. There were 44 talks in January 2007 viewed more than 3 million times, […]

The Paralysed Customer by Barry Schwartz - video keywords on YouTube vs. on TED Talks

Having too many choices has a paralysing effect on decision making, according to Barry Schwartz. This is his talk at the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, or TED Talks, he gave in 2005 (to see a modified, fresher version check out what Barry Schwartz said at Google Talks in the Googleplex), which is available […]