TED BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Onstage at TED2010, TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Google’s Sergey Brin about the company’s recent statement on China. (Recorded at TED2010, in Long Beach, California, February 2010. Duration: 8:24.) CA: What happened? SB: Our story somewhat parallels what Shyam just told you all about. We initially began investigating a security incident at […]
TED spoke with Nicholas Negroponte in the days after the Haiti earthquake (and the day after the iPad was announced). OLPC’s pilot Give One, Get One program is undergoing a radical transformation that could easily be called Give One, Give Again. In late January, an email went out to the OLPC community announcing that if […]
Above and below: Unboxing and powerup in Palm Springs. Photos: TED / Michael Brands Below: Google specialists in the Dome help TEDsters get set up; and at bottom, a Nexus One in the wild. Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth
The Summit social space, supported by Workspring, is a calm and private place to hold small meetings and conversations during TED breaks. With projection screens, conference tables and thoughtful attendants, it’s a place to incubate ideas inspired by TED and have meaningful conversations — like this one, below, held in the front conference room of […]
Above: TEDsters line up waiting for the sound of the “March Trionfale” from Aida — the signal to open the doors (below). Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth
What’s the best way to keep automobile traffic moving calmly and rationally through an intersection? It’s not a stoplight, it’s not a stop sign, and it’s not a yield sign (who knows what to do at a yield?). In Session 6, Gary Lauder suggests we “Take Turns.” Roundabouts are the best way to build intersections, […]
In Session 7, Breakthrough, Gary Flake demo’ed Pivot, amazing new data visualization tech from Microsoft Live Labs. Learn more here and, if you have a PC, download Pivot and play. Learn more about Pivot here at PressPass (you may need to install Silverlight) and on YouTube.
Above, TED Senior Fellow Juliana Machado Ferreira watches TED in simulcast at the Global Village, a social space dedicated to the TED Fellows program. Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, the Global Village sports comfy cushion seating (below) and a touchscreen (bottom) for pinpointing the home countries of the TED Fellows and Senior Fellows at Long […]
Above, a crowd at Palm Springs — including TED’s manager of translation, Kristin Windbigler, at left — chats via AT&T’s HD teleconferencing with TED’s own Leigh Ferreira in Long Beach (seen onscreen wearing a hot pink scarf from TEDIndia…). During the course of TED2010, Leigh led half a dozen chats between Long Beach and Palm […]
An amazing shot by TED photographer James Duncan Davidson of the LXD‘s evening rehearsal on Tuesday. (The LXD’s jawdropping show opened Session 6, going on now.) Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson
Photo: TED / Marla Aufmuth
TED’s photo editor Mike Femia digs this picture above: “It looks like an impressionist painting, but in neon lights.” From the Wednesday-night Block Party on Pine Street in Long Beach, with the amazing Ozomatli (below). More pics from the Block Party >> Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson
In the Imaginarium, GE created an environment for listening to TEDTalks and then sharing reactions and inspirations, using a glowing, multipart multimedia sculpture that recorded thoughts and ideas from TEDsters. (You can see some of the feedback on Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo in the postroll at the end of his TEDTalk.) Below, a detail […]
Above, at the Hub, attendees played with Nokia’s fast and tiny Booklet 3G netbook. Below, a scene from Nokia’s data visualizations of the Twittersphere, with live updates, stats and fun outliers. It’s <a href="addictive. Photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth
A much-requested slide from Dr. William Li’s TEDTalk in Session 2: Courtesy The Angiogenesis Foundation
On the top floor of the theater, the SyFy Network supported a groovy social space called the Playroom — featuring a director’s-eye view of each camera on our 8-camera shoot. On Friday, as part of the hosted conversation series, TED2010 speaker Jane McGonigal came to the Playroom to talk about her new game, Evoke.