Friday, January 28, 2011

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design)


It is formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading."
Since 2006 the talked are free online.
As 2010 there are 700 talked avilable online.
From 2006 to 2009 they had been viewed 50 million times.
At 2010 it had more than 290 million.
It was founded 26 years ago, at 1984.
The headquarter its now at New York City and Vancouver.
The events are now at Long Beach and Palm Springs in the USA.
Europe and Asia are offering live streaming of the talks.
It was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks.
They also give Nobel Prize to the winners.
TED's current curator is a British.
Now Chris Anderson is having it.
At 2010, Sarah Silverman one of the talkers talked about adopting child, Anderson posted on his Twitter that he didnt like it. Silverman and Anderson got in a fight. The video never posted at the website.
Nassim Taleb had a talk at 2008, when they posted the video, some of his talk didnt show. He contacted them and he said how mad he was.
The program try to show the now world and past.
People could join from age 18 and up.
People from Asia, Africa, USA, Europe.
TEDx, is for youngers, like students, businees, and schools.
There are about 60 countries what has it.

One of the videos is Jack SHimabokoru who playes violin and he is Asian. He playes a beautifull country song.

THe secound one is Heather Knight, she is so in to robats and mothern world. She made a robat who talkes and say jokes. She gaive the audians a green and a red paper to bring up the colors and say their apinion. If they liked it green and if not red. Most showed the green paper. She said it was her first time performing to people.

The third one was Liza Donnelly, who was stock in the old world. Do to her mom that she didnt want her doughter to be like the fashion girls. Liza studied art and humanities. She is drowing human known by her art and her goal is to try tell the world that all people are equal and same.

The forth one was Amber Case. She is so in to the mothern and tecnology world. She is trying to ues tecnalogy the best way posible and to tell others the sam thing.

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