TED, the non-profit group devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, launched a brand new educational YouTube channel today. Videos can be discovered on YouTube and on the TED website at education.ted.com.
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Nonprofit organization TED made its entry into the iPad world, releasing an app for the Apple tablet and planning a second version for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the first quarter of 2011.
The app allows users to browse through nearly 800 TEDTalks, ranging from three minutes to 30 minutes, and features include an “Inspire Me” button, which enables selection of speeches by length and type of talk; curated playlists of TEDTalks on topics including “The Power of Cities,” “How We Learn,” “A Greener Future,” and “Unconventional Explanations”; tags breaking the content down into about 250 categories, the ability to save speeches for offline viewing; and the ability to browse the play list while watching a TEDTalk.
The app was developed by Bookhouse Software‘s Matt Drance, who had been an applications-framework “evangelist” at Apple.
TED Media executive producer June Cohen said:
The iPad presents a thrilling new platform for delivering a TED experience. We rethought the user experience to take advantage of the portability, the touch screen, and the focused media time people have when they travel or settle in for an evening. We think TED fans will particularly love the “Inspire Me” button, which creates a custom play list to fill the exact amount of time they have free.
TED is inspiring advertisers to go above and beyond with their video marketing campaigns with the Ads Worth Spreading Challenge. The challenge, which was announced yesterday on the TED blog, is inviting advertisers to “reinvent, inspire and engage audiences” by redefining video advertising. In his Ad Week address, TED’s curator Chris Anderson said, “If advertising is so great, why the hell is it largely failing on the web today?” Advertisers – TED is asking you to prove Anderson wrong by submitting the best video marketing campaigns you can muster up!
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Have you ever stopped to think about how YouTube and web video are driving innovation around the globe? Chris Anderson of TED gave a compelling talk earlier this month on the rise of web video and how it is driving innovation in basically every arena, from dance to science to our understanding of different cultures and more. Anderson’s 20-minute talk is definitely a must-see for anyone interested not only in web video, but also in how the internet and social media is affecting us all, inspiring us to become better at what we do.
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One of the best talks at last year’s TED talk was Nicholas Christakis’ speech on “The Hidden Influence of Social Networks”. Nicholas talks about the importance of social relationships and how human emotions balloon out through social networks and affect the world around them. He starts with a fascinating story about a woman suffering from illness, and how it affected the world around her by touching a huge variety of points on her ‘social network’.
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