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Is Thnkr a legitimate challenge to the powerhouse that is TED?

As video, and YouTube in particular, moves closer and closer to the centre of everything that happens on the internet, so innovative thinkers are…

Has TED become a place for useless technobabble and ‘meme laundering’?

TED (the Technology Entertainment and Design conference) has expanded its brand across the globe over the past two years, with hundreds of local TEDx…

‘Lessons worth sharing’: TED’s super cool educational videos

Have you ever sat in a classroom and listened to a fantastic lesson that piqued your curiosity, and wished you could share the experience…

Want to kill the status quo? Innovate

I was recently asked, “how do you find innovators?” It’s an odd question really, one that I hadn’t thought about before, but one that…

TED brings ‘ideas worth spreading’ to Android

This is very cool, if a little long in the making. TED, the organisation behind the renowned conference series of the same name, has…

TED launches initiative to bring ‘lessons worth sharing’ to high schoolers

TED, the organisation behind the popular conference series with the same name, launched a new initiative that aims to bring TED-like video content to…

TED presents 10 ‘Ads Worth Spreading’ [Videos]

The TED conference series is all about ideas an innovation. But when most of us think about the kind of innovation TED preaches, we…

What will a TED talk look like in 2023? [Video]

“Ideas worth spreading”. That’s the motto of the TED conferences. But what kind of ideas will be worth spreading in 2023, for instance? Ridley…

Google’s ‘Solve for X’: Simple solutions for complex problems

Solve for X. No we’re not trying to induce nightmares from your high school maths days. It’s a new concept from Google aimed at…

The coolest tech videos at TED 2011

The inaugural TED conference in 1984 featured one of the first demonstrations of the Macintosh Computer and the Sony compact disc. Over the last…

A quick look at TEDGlobal 2011

This last week I was in Edinburgh, Scotland at the TEDGlobal conference. As always, it was filled with inspiring talks, great conversations and I…

Ten of the coolest TED talks [Videos]

The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conferences bring together luminaries from a wide range of fields. They come to delight and entertain us with…

Water and flow: The focus of TEDx Cape Town

South Africa may have a digital divide, but more importantly, it has a cognitive divide. Too many of us grow up in households where…

At TED, new technology unveiled to end need for kidney donors

The shortage of organs for kidney transplants has been met with a tech solution that eliminates the need for donors. The latest touted breakthrough…

‘You’ve been Punk’d’ : Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter account hacked at TED

With over 6.3-million followers worldwide, Hollywood icon and new media entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher is one of the Twitter elite, and is the sixth most…

TED: Gearing up for mind-boggling experience

Intriguing science and extraordinary undertakings are in store at a TED conference to inspire the brilliant and accomplished to change the world for the…

TED talks now on the iPad

The world-wide acclaimed TED talks took to the iPad with the release on Thursday of an application that allows users to watch the famous…

TED.com looking for ‘ads worth spreading’

The organizers of thought-sparking TED conferences, known for changing the way people look at life, are challenging advertisers to do the same. In a…

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