TEDxTokyo - TEDx Youth Day - 05/15/10 - English

TEDxYouthDay is a series of TEDx events happening over a 24-hour period all around the world. Dreamed up by a group of TEDx organizers, the events are designed to empower and inspire young people.

Presented by Lara Stein and Patrick Newell.

http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/418

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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TEDxYouth Amsterdam 
20 November 
2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46vZdiWTk4&feature=related


Trailer - Challenge 'Ideas Worth Doing'






Rules of the challenge
It's pretty simple: TEDxAmsterdam is about 'ideas worth spreading,' and our TEDxAmsterdam Challenge is about 'ideas worth doing!' We challenge you to do something good in your local community, your city, the Netherlands, or the world. Take your pick.

Your chosen project has to be undertaken in the period between 29 June until the 19 October.
To verify the project, you must document it with some authentic proof. We're looking for a newspaper or published article, clear photos, a short movie clip, or testimonials on film. Be creative.
The TEDxAmsterdam Challenge is free for everyone of every age to join. Our event is international, so entries must be in English.
Entries must do good for someone, some place or something in your local community, city, the Netherlands or the world.

Sound good? Full of ideas? http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/register...

Made by: Bonafide Binky (www.bonafidebinky.com),

Aad Duineveld (Illustrations),
Arriën Molema (music),
Ivana Kowsoleea (direction, concept, production),
Laurens Hebly (Voice-over),
Milan van den Bovenkamp (direction, concept, production),
Sasha Naod (copy)

About TEDx, x = independently organized event 

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Mobile Games App Store Strategies, Business Models & Forecasts 2010-2015

http://www.juniperresearch.com/reports/mobile_games

Overview

- Unique In-depth Forecast Suite
- High Value Strategic Assessment
- Board Level Planning Tool

This sixth edition of the mobile games report investigates a number of mobile games business models considering the opportunities for freemium content, including in-app purchases, as an alternative to the traditional pay-to-download approach.

Key forecasts include the number of users downloading mobile games, the number of downloads (both offstore and onstore) as well as end-user revenues (pay-per-download and in-game purchases) and mobile advertising expenditure revenues (adspend).

As part of a detailed strategy assessment the report analyses the decline in Java and BREW platforms in relation to the mass deployment of app stores, as well as considering the positive impact of handset development, and highlights challenges to further development of the market, such as, discoverability, and OS fragmentation.

Web 2.0 Summit 2010: Frank Quattrone, "A Conversation with Frank Quattrone"

Frank Quattrone (Qatalyst Partners),
Bill Gurley (Benchmark Capital),
"A Conversation with Frank Quattrone"

Sharp也趕Tablet尾班車 Galapagos專攻日本書市場

筆者無意歌頌蘋果如何改變世界、如何改變大家的生活，卻無法否認這間公司的產品完全改變他的科技界同行。自IPAD 推出後，多家公司已先後仿傚其設計陸續推出產品，先是內地的廠商包括漢王及一眾山案廠，及後如Ausu及HP均先後宣佈或傳出Tablet 產品，較知名的公司則有Toshiba的雙面Tablet、DELL 的Streak，另外韓國三星亦來勢洶洶，準備推出Galaxy Tablet七吋及十吋版以對抗蘋果。
繞了一圈後，今日連日本的Sharp也要在Tablet 市場上一分一杯羹，宣佈推出自家的Tablet──Galapagos。GALAPAGOS分為5.5吋的「Mobile type」及10.8吋的「Home type」，前者LCD顯示屏解像度為1,024 × 600，後者則為1,366 × 800，同樣內置了無線上網Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b/g功能。「Mobile type」備有紅色及銀色兩種外殼選擇，外型與iPhone相近，不過在Home Button位置崁入了一個trackball作揭頁之用。至於「Home type」則只有黑色，外型近似iPad，兩者同樣對應並預載自家開發的「Social App」。

由於Galapagos的定位為一部連結網絡多媒體服務的電子書閱讀器，故此Sharp刻意在閱讀體驗上下功夫，該公司指5.5吋的大小正是為了迎合大眾讀書的習慣(大概因為此面積與日本的文庫本相近)，而10.8吋則是遷就了大家翻雜誌的習慣，該公司更聲稱其獨有的XMDF格式針對了日本的書寫風格設計，能為讀者帶來最優質的閱讀體驗(相信若其所指是直行書寫的話，應該對廣大的華文社會亦有幫助，不過未知該公司會否計畫發展華文市場)

在發怖會上，SHARP的重點在於其推出的雲端多媒體服務及網上書店，對GALAPAGOS的規格沒有作詳細著墨，甚至連發售日期及售價等皆沒有公怖。該公司表示其網上書店將於12月正式運作，目前已肯定有三萬本讀物及雜誌於首日運作時同步推出。

對此機有興趣的朋友不妨到Sharp公司的官方網頁研究一下。

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Bloomberg to America: Lay Off The Chinese

Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Hong Kong.
By Peter Stein

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on a visit to Hong Kong and the neighboring city of Shenzhen, had some harsh criticism for his own fellow Americans: Stop blaming the Chinese for their problems.

As the debate rages over China’s trade and currencies policies, the 68-year-old Bloomberg, now in his third term as mayor of New York, was tough on China’s critics in the U.S. He spoke to reporters Saturday in Hong Kong after addressing a meeting of leaders from top cities around the world, dubbed the C40, focused on climate change and environment.

“I think in America, we’ve got to stop blaming the Chinese and blaming everybody else and take a look at ourselves,” he said.

A day earlier, Mr. Bloomberg visited several businesses (incluing a solar panel maker) in Shenzhen, a manufacturing hub that borders Hong Kong.

China’s big push into solar and other environmentally friendly energy technologies has begun to attract negative attention. Last month, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said it would investigate China’s policies over complaints that the country was using tactics that violated its World Trade Organization commitments to shut other countries out of the burgeoning market for clean energy.

Mr. Bloomberg attacked the notion that using Chinese-made technology to promote green energy in the U.S. was politically objectionable. “Let me get this straight: There’s a country on the other side of the world that is taking their taxpayers’ dollars, and trying to sell subsidized things so we can buy them cheaper, and have better products, and we’re going to criticize that?”

Earlier, in an interview, the mayor was deeply, undiplomatically critical of provincialism and populism in U.S. Congress.

“If you look at the U.S., you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate—they can’t read,” he said. “I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here,” he warned, “only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is.”

The mayor said his biggest impression from meeting his mayoral counterparts from China (the C40 includes about a half dozen heads of major cities in China) was their focus on environmental issues.

In the past, he said, “they have focused on jobs, jobs, jobs, economic development at all costs. Now all of a sudden they are realizing their rivers are becoming undrinkable, their air is killing people.”

China’s growing concern for the environment was good for Hong Kong, he noted, given how much of the city’s pollution problem wafts in across its border with the rest of the country. He recalled many years ago renting a helicopter (he’s a certified pilot) and flying it into the city’s mountainous New Territories district, only to get lost in the pollution.

“At one point I had to go down almost to tree level to figure out where I was, just to get out.”

Bloomberg, whose past business experience frequently took him to Asia, spoke highly of prospects for Hong Kong, where the stock exchange has dominated the global market for initial public offerings for a second year.

“The future of Hong Kong as a financial center is not going to be challenged by anybody else in Asia,” he said. Going in its favor were widespread use of English; a family-friendly, low-crime environment that attracts workers; and ease of commuting.

“The only other city that has the potential of doing that, of course, is Singapore,” he added, but not Tokyo. “I love Tokyo, but unless you speak Japanese, you can’t survive.”