Back to the backbone
1A new report by IBM and the Univerity of Auckland into the state of Kiwi innovation reveals two surprising facts, and one dismally old one More …
From office paper to toilet paper
It is now possible to recycle your monthly reports into something more useful More …
Rives - The Word Wild Web
One poet's journey from page to stage, with pit stops in HTML, travel, weird fortune, memes, happiness and other fancy stuff. More …
Mark Pesce - Dense and Thick
It may be hard to believe, but we're only just at the very beginnings of the web revolution. In the first fifteen years (1994-2009), the human world of culture and civilization was sucked into the black hole of cyberspace ... More …
Kevin Rose — a Baroque aria
More like a blessing than a performance, Kevin will perform a baroque aria by Handel with his signature emotional depth and subtlety. More …
Bek Hodgson — Designing for Participation
Most everyone has something of value they long to share or contribute. Whether an artisan is seeking out a market for their handmade goods on Etsy, an unpublished author finding an audience on Blurb, or a hungry mind adding context ... More …
Amy Hoy — Double click to edit
Watch out, there's a plague afoot! A plague of what, you ask? A plague of same-y-ness! Blogs, apps, sites—they all look the same. The web has become a place of templates rather than innovation. That means big wins ... More …
Daniel Burka — Iterative Design Strategies
User interface design is an iterative process — the design of Digg and Pownce have been a study in evolution and adaptation. This talk will inspect the why and how of these iterations by looking at specific case studies from the ... More …
Eric Ries - The Lean Startup
High-tech product development projects are notoriously difficult to manage. They come in over budget and behind schedule, draining cash reserves and squandering revenue opportunities. Many fail outright. Often times, when customers hands finally touch the product, it is unusable, buggy ... More …
Shelley Bernstein Fostering Personal Connection to Place
How does a museum in Brooklyn foster community? Through a willingness to recognize the what the power of people can bring to its content, an understanding that experimentation is key and failing (fast) is optimal and working to do more ... More …
Lachlan Hardy - Building The Open Web
The Open Web is an evolving term that encompasses technologies from web standards stalwarts like HTML, to almost-mainstream buzzwords such as OpenID, and on to emerging specifications like PortableContacts, but it's more than that. It is a philosophy. More …
Brian Fling Brian does the Andrew Sisters
4Brian Fling performs songs by The Andrew Sisters and from popular Broadway musicals. More …
Scott Thomas - Web design that grabs people
Online communities? Useless without adoption - Scott Thomas gives us the ins and outs of building attention grabbing sites More …
TED2010 Day Four
2Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common. More …
TED2010 Day Three
Today we heard from Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, David Rockwell, Natalie Merchant, David Byrne and Chris Anderson (the Wired one, not the TED one), yet despite such an auspicious roster, the ‘wow’ moment today came from a humbler corner. More …
