Your humble TED bloggers were deep into TED2009 prep when this demo dropped last week — so let’s catch up. Watch Sylvia Earle, a winner of the 2009 TED Prize, as she narrates this demo of Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth:
A cure for post-TED blahs: Google Ocean demo
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muhammaD umar commented on Jul 18 2010
Uhh, Google already has a project codenamed Project Ocean – its for their ambitious scan every book and provide it online…so would have been good to mention that!
http://technologiez.net
Peter Stephenson commented on Feb 10 2009
Nice vid.
I have a question. When will the TED 2009 content be up on the TED site for us to see? There has already been a couple but they are hidden away in all the hundreds of other stuff. Can you make a TED 2009 section so we can get right to it all.