February 2011
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100B Facebook photos by summer 2011
from Inside Facebook: Fun Facts About Facebook Photos - Pixable, along with Harvard University researchers, conducted some interesting research about Facebook’s photos. Facebook will have 100 billion photos by this summer, women have twice as many looks/uploads/tags as men, men prefer photos with women they don’t know, women prefer photos with women they know and everyone seems to...
September 2010
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WatchMy six minutes of sheer terror at Demo 2010. Terror because there is a six minute countdown clock for each presentation you have to watch through your entire demo — go long and they throw you off the stage ;-) Well not literally.
August 2010
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WatchTEDxKC runtime 1hour 51 minutes.
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This is an interview I gave to KCUR (Public Radio)...
July 2010
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WatchA little “gauzy” in places… but generally I like Nancy Duarte’s work putting together presentations for execs from Apple to Al (Gore ;-). Here Nancy makes suggestions for creating a great TED talk.
June 2010
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WatchWhen the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.
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WatchMargaret Gould Stewart, YouTube’s head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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WatchSmall Planet Partners makes its debut on Fox Business Live discussing social entrepreneurship. Hey, that’s um my wife—balancing out the normal Fox rhetoric ;-)
May 2010
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WatchAn update of my Why Social Media Matters presentation — Just delivered at the World Retail in NYC. Unfortunately Slideshare doesn’t support builds (and) many slides in this deck have builds ;-)
WatchKilling cancer with anti-angiogenesis…
WatchKilling mosquitoes with lasers… sweet!
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February 2010
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WatchThe land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard — especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. What’s the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard has four propositions for simplifying US law.
A day in the life of the Internet
Created by Online Education
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January 2010
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WatchI believe David Blane (for real)… He held his breath for 17 Min’s… Here’s how.
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WatchMany companies (think) they can be the next Zappos of social media (using social media to blur the lines between employees and customers etc.); yet many fail to realize that every employee at Zappos is hired for their customer service skills, cultural fit and alignment to company goals.
Bottom-line: you are hired for your customer service acumen at Zappos and you can be fired for your lack of...
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Quoted in Mobile Commerce Daily →
“The first and most distinguishing aspect of Copia is that it’s the first truly social eReading experience,” said Mike Lundgren, director of innovation and strategy at VML, Kansas City, MO. “We’ve introduced six devices with six- and nine-inch screens, some with touchscreens, all with WiFi and 3G options, as well as a very rich user interface and navigation experience.
“Navigating content is a...
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November 2009
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WatchEarlier this week I did the keynote for the Gravity Summit… here is my presentation.
October 2009
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WatchHosting a TEDx event (TEDxKC) is definitely a highlight of 2009… having one of the videos from the event accepted to the TED.com site (well) pure icing. Congratulations on a great talk John.
June 2009
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WatchClay Shirky: How Cellpones, Twitter, Facebook Can Make History
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. (Recorded at TED@State, at the US State Department, June 2009, in...
WatchAbout this TED Talk: Nandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
May 2009
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Ben Folds was at Grinders tonight…!
WatchQ: What can you do in a single take?
A: A lot…!
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Cake…….!!!!!
April 2009
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Morford at SF Gate... brilliant ;-)
Obama Resolves Riemann Hypothesis
In which the World’s Greatest President (WGP) continues to infuriate and confound his GOP critics by taking on — and checking off — so many impossibly ambitious projects and issues so quickly, so calmly, so impressively, that not only can’t they keep track, but they can’t write snarling, simpleminded, wrong-headed on-air commentaries...
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WatchIn this video, Lifetime salutes Majora Carter.
Majora Carter continues to be a strong voice for environmental change with social benefits.
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WatchAbout this talk
Forget about the hybrid auto — Shai Agassi says it’s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.
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My first night in Amman is punctuated by the...
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WatchAbout this talk
Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.