Our Goal
Imagine watching a football game broadcast and being able to follow your favorite player all the time. Imagine a bride being able to "turn around" in her wedding video and see her parents' faces the moment the officiant says, "I now pronounce you husband and wife"!
GoPano's technology brings a new angle to making videos. By freeing the video from the single perspective of a conventional camera, you can interact with the video in a way never before possible. We strongly believe that 360º video will become as important in broadcasting as sound was to silent movies or color television was to black & white.
While we've offered 360º video products for years to professionals, GoPano micro is our first step in making panoramic video technology accessible to the masses.
With Your Help.
We want your help to make GoPano micro a reality. We have a working prototype and the essential software ready. A web platform to host 360º interactive movies is on its way. We are requesting your support to make this product a commercial reality. Support us on Kickstarter, tell your friends and spread this idea. And yes, you don't have to stick to the tiers, please feel free to contribute any amount.
We are very thrilled with this new project. We hope with your support we can make this technology- The technology of the future!
* Today, the GoPano micro optic is compatible with the iPhone 4 only. With the success of this project, we will broaden this technology to include more smart phones, mobile devices and cameras.
Project location: Pittsburgh, PA
There are quite a few panoramic apps for the iPhone but they all require a steady hand, lots of patience and, most important, you can only take still photos. The GoPano aims to solve that by adding a panoramic mirror to the iPhone’s video camera, thereby allowing you to take panoramic video in real time.
The GoPano simply snaps onto your iPhone and the included app does the rest. As you record, you can turn the panorama by swiping the screen to shoot what you want as it happens.
The lad who made it, Michael Rondinelli, filmed much of the footage on the green fields of Carnegie Mellon University, my alma mater, so I have a special place in my heart for this charming young nerd and his panoramic lens – for I was once like him. He needs $20,000 to Kickstart it and for a $50 pledge you get one of your very own. It’s a clever idea for artistic types and folks who, like me, may want to shoot panoramic before and after shots of their Dexter-esque “fun” rooms.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
“Hey, you’re okay. You’ll be fine. Just breathe.”
I’m going to do something different on the blog today. I’m going to ask you for a favor. Nay, I’m going to beg you for a favor. It’s simple. It’s a little time consuming, but other than that it will cost you nothing. Watch this TED video featuring Ze Frank. It will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and will have you singing, “Hey, you’re okay. You’ll be fine. Just breathe.”
Google’s Music Search Engine Quietly Vanishes From The Web
A tipster pointed out the disappearance of the old Google Music Search landing page to us, which doesn’t necessarily mean it vanished recently, but I’ve searched everywhere for mentions of Google officially or unofficially retiring the service and have been unable to find any reports about it. I wonder if simply nobody noticed it was gone, or that my search skills or simply not what they used to be.
The last update I can find it when SearchEngineLand’s Danny Sullivan spoke with Google spokesperson Jason Freidenfelds about the future of the service and was told that it was firmly tied in with Google’s search group, and that people would continue to develop it even after Apple shut down Lala. That conversation dates back to April 2010, so obviously things have changed somewhere along the way.
One more reason I think things have changed rather recently is because Google linked to its own blog post announcing Music Search back in December 2010.
Now, as I’m sure you’re well aware, Google has bigger plans when it comes to digital music than mere search, so perhaps the Google.com/music link to the former Music Search product landing page was quietly removed to make way for another, more appropriate landing page? Or did someone just quietly pull the plug hoping no one would notice?
I’ve asked Google for comment and will update when I hear back.
Meanwhile, according to Cnet’s Greg Sandoval, Google has begun testing internally its much-anticipated music locker and subscription service , which will simply be named Google Music.
Google had hoped that the service would launch to the public in 2010, but it has failed to sign licensing agreements with copyright holders fast enough to launch a digital music download store and cloud-based locker service for that to happen.
Google may, however, unveil Google Music at its I/O conference in May. As for its loudly-trumpeted-upon-launch music search engine: rest in peace, I guess.
Skype In The Classroom: An International Social Network For Teachers
How to create a profile and find a teacher from Skype in the classroom on Vimeo.
Skype realizes full well its software is used by many school teachers and students from around the globe, and today announced that it has built a dedicated social network to help them connect, collaborate and exchange knowledge and teaching resources over the Web.
This morning, the company launched a free international community site dubbed Skype in the Classroom, an online platform designed to help teachers find each other and relevant projects according to search criteria such as the age groups they teach, location and subjects of interest.
The platform, which has been in beta since the end of December, already has a community of more than 4,000 teachers, across 99 countries.
Teachers need only sign up with their Skype account at the website, create a profile with their interests, location and the age groups they teach and start connecting with other teachers by exploring the directory, where they can also find projects and resources that match their skills, needs or interests.
A members-only community, Skype in the Classroom lets teachers easily add each other to their Skype contact lists or message one another.
It’s a wonderful idea, and I sincerely hope it takes off (without hurting but instead hopefully inspiring many of the existing social networks and collaboration networks for teachers).
Google Chooses Its Fiber-Networked City Of The Future: Kansas City
Back in February 2010, Google announced its plans to build out a fiber-optic network for a city in the United States, promising connection speeds around 1Gb/s — 100 times faster than the broadband most people are used to. The announcement led 1,100 cities to apply, and today Google has just announced the winning city: Kansas City, Kansas.
For you lucky Kansas City residents, Google has launched an informational page outlining what their plans are (it also provides some background about Google itself). The site’s FAQ says that Google hopes to begin building the network by the end of the year and that service should begin in the first quarter of 2012, with plans to roll out to all communities in Kansas City. Once the service is live pricing will be “competitive to what people are paying for Internet access today” though Google hasn’t yet named the plans.
Dont be too depressed if you happen to live somewhere outside of Kansas City, though. In the video below announcing the news, Sergey Brin says, “That’s why we’re rolling out to communities, starting with Kansas City, that are going to give one gigabit of access to every home.” So it sounds like we’ll be hearing about more community launches in the future. And hopefully Google’s roll-out will put pressure on major broadband providers to speed up their fiber roll-outs.
The Wackiest Watch in the World
An extremely complex case stages the show. The three overlapping cylinders on three levels are configured to deconstruct time. The main circle is the hour’s domain, flanked by two pavilions. One shows the minutes on a jumping disk for the tens and a running disk for the units. The other, slightly lower, displays the regular beat of a big titanium balance-wheel.
Anarchy takes hold of the hours indication beneath the sapphire-crystal dome every 60 minutes. The numeral of the hour, assembled in the center of the circle, explodes into chaos before instantly reassembling as the new hour. It then remains still until the next disintegration. Instead of a hand, 24 placards revolve and rotate on a complicated system of gears mounted on an epicycloidal gear-train.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Interacting Galaxies Galore: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered
Hubble Space Telescope - In preparation for our Facebook discussion with Dr. Summers on April 6th, we'll be posting some Hubble's Universe "classics." Be sure to leave your questions for Dr. Summers on our Discussion page. Enjoy!
The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out (Part 1-5)
Richard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out 1981 (Part 1-5)
Authors@Google: Trey Ratcliff
High dynamic range (HDR) photography lets you capture the myriad colors and levels of light that you can see in the real world, and the results are amazing photographs that run the gamut from super real to surreal. Explore this fantastic realm of photography through the unique vision of renowned travel photographer Trey Ratcliff. In this book, Treyshares his phenomenal HDR photographs as well as all the backstory on the adventurous circumstances of their origin. He also reveals the techniques he used to get the final shot. The breathtaking images gracing these pages and the author's real-world advice for capturing and manipulating images will inspire you to create your own HDR magic. So Trey also includes his simple and straightforward tutorial that teaches you everything you need to know to make your own HDR photographs, whether you?re a beginner, amateur, or professional. A unique blend of practical and inspirational, this book features:
- a breathtaking collection of HDR photographs
- engaging explanations of how the author achieved the image
- expert tips for achieving stunning results (and avoiding common mistakes)
- a foolproof HDR tutorial and software recommendations
About the Author
Trey Ratcliff is best known for his website, StuckInCustoms.com, which is the #1 travel photography blog in the world. His photography has been featured in numerous shows around the world, as well as on ABC, NBC, FOX, and the BBC. In addition, one of his HDR photographs was the first of its kind to hang in the Smithsonian. Having grown up blind in one eye, Trey has a unique way of navigating and capturing the world around him. That vision, combined with an educational background in computer science and mathematics, leads him in an algorithm-like approach to photography that can evoke palpable memories.http://www.blogger.com/img/blahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifnk.gif
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View the "HDR Tutorial" at http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/
Subscribe to Trey's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/stuckincustoms/
Visit "Stuck In Customs" at http://www.stuckincustoms.com
Learn more about "A World in HDR" at http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-book/
"Behind the Lines" at WAR HORSE - Episode 1
Matt Doyle takes you backstage at WAR HORSE during tech week and introduces a few cast members. Stay tuned for additional episodes of "Behind the Lines"!
WAR HORSE is now in previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center Theater. Visit www.WarHorseonBroadway.com for more info and to purchase tickets.
Video filmed/edited by Matt Doyle.
Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
The Story of War Horse
At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France.
He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land.
But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to the trenches to find him and bring him home.
Actors, working with astonishing, life-sized puppets, lead us on this emotionally-charged journey through history.
About this talk
"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.
At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France.
He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land.
But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to the trenches to find him and bring him home.
Actors, working with astonishing, life-sized puppets, lead us on this emotionally-charged journey through history.
About this talk
"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Seeing clearly with silicone
School children in developing countries who have poor vision could soon see clearly thanks to cheap self-adjustable glasses that use silicone fluid to control the lens power. The glasses are being developed as part of an initiative called Child ViSion, a collaboration between the Centre of Vision for the Developing World (CVDW) in Oxford, UK, and Dow Corning - a global leader in silicone technology.
Improving the design of the self-adjustable glasses will allow manufacturing to be scaled up, while keeping costs down
© CVDW
The first fluid-filled adjustable eyeglasses were invented in the 1990s by Josh Silver, a physicist at the University of Oxford, and now director of CVDW. To date, over 30,000 pairs of the glasses, have been distributed to adults in several developing nations.
Around 100 million children require corrective eyewear in order to fully benefit from classroom education, but the developing world suffers from a lack of eye specialists needed to prescribe glasses. The CVDW, with the help of $3 million (£1.8 million) and support from Dow Corning, is now trying to address this problem.
'We haven't got the child specific device yet. That's something we're working on now,' says Silver. Currently, the glasses cost around $20 a pair, but Silver explains: 'The aim is to get the cost of this eyewear down to around a dollar in order to really make them accessible to large numbers of people.' The partnership reckons that improving the design will allow the manufacturing process to be scaled up while keeping costs down.
The glasses comprise tough polycarbonate lenses which each contain a silicone filled membrane. Each membrane is connected to a small syringe on each arm of the eyewear. All the user has to do to create their own prescription glasses is control a dial on each syringe which increases or reduces the amount of silicone fluid in the membranes, altering the power of each lens. Once the wearer is satisfied with the settings, the membrane can be sealed and the syringes removed.
'It's a very strong concept,' comments Bruce Moore at the New England College of Optometry in Boston, US. 'A large segment of the eye care professions believe that the only approach we ought to be utilising to provide universal care, for example in Africa, would be to produce a vast numbers of highly trained professionals,' he says. 'I have no problem with that, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen next year. I see this [adaptable eyewear] as at least a possibility of an interim solution.'
'This project is very much in its infancy and a lot of what we need to work out and move through is still to be developed,' says James Stevenson, Dow Corning's global healthcare marketing manager. 'A key part of this initiative is to create a business plan which will allow all the parties involved to understand both the technical and economic hurdles of scaling this to the hundred million pairs level.'
The initial goal is to design, manufacture and distribute 50,000 pairs of self-adjustable glasses to teenagers aged 12-18 in the developing world, primarily through and in support of education programmes.
James Urquhart
Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!
About this talk
At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
有事嗎?(DEMO) | R.chord
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
I, For One, Welcome Our New Dancing Android Overlords
Little known (and completely false) fact: once upon a time, the Android Robot (the platform’s lovable lil’ green logo) entered a dance contest. First place was a lucrative dance contract with one of the world’s finest agencies, with dancing gigs from Paris to Rome. Second place meant you got to dance next to a Sony Ericsson stand in Taiwan. Needless to say, Android didn’t get first.
Also, I find it amazing that a guy in a massive inflatable rubber suit can still dance considerably better than I can.
Total Immersion Raises $5.5M From Intel, Others For Augmented Reality Platform
Augmented reality software company Total Immersion this morning announced that it has secured $5.5 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital, with existing backers Partech, iSource and Elaia Partners participating. The company has now raised more than $11 million in funding.
The additional capital will be used to step up development of its D’Fusion software platform and to expand operations in Asia and the United States, grow its community of developers and explore new consumer markets.
Founded in 1999, Total Immersion provides a commercial augmented reality platform that enables developers to blurs the line between the virtual and the real world by integrating realtime interactive 3D graphics into live video streams. See demo video below.
Intel says it will work together with Total Immersion to develop new usage experiences for its own platforms. It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time the chip maker’s venture capital arm invests in an augmented reality software company – it also took the lead in a $14 million financing round for Layar announced back in November 2010.
Jack Dorsey & The Golden Gate Bridge (Exclusive Video)
Transcript
I want to talk about how we build things here, a little bit about the product, the work we do and the work we need to do. So, this is something I put on our Wiki a long time ago [shows slide], as one of our principles is to delight our users. But then I realized it’s more important to delight their users, which are their customers and payers. And the more we focus on that payer experience, the more we focus on really making that magical — and designing it. We win, our users win, and we get more users.
So, going back to a lot of Brian’s points, this is a big focus for us, we’re the only payments company in the world that’s concerned with design. We are all designers in this room, and that’s how we’re leading this company, through design.
So, how many of you have walked or driven across the Golden Gate Bridge? Almost everyone in the room. This is one of my favorite parts of living in San Francisco. This is astoundingly beautiful, and it’s not just beautiful because it looks pretty, it’s beautiful because of the challenge that everyone who built this bridge overcame.
So, if you go back and you look at how this bridge was built, this is what San Francisco looked like before the bridge. This was the Golden Gate. We called it the Golden Gate because San Francisco was known for gold rushes. People would come here, explore and risk everything they had to live in an environment where they might find gold, or might find work, or might open a store of some kind.
So, this is the Golden Gate, this is the fort, right on the point in the Presidio, and there’s this big divide between this fort and Marin, and a lot of people living in Tiburon and Sausalito would have to go all the way around the Bay, all the way up here to get around across the river, up by Richmond.
So, they needed something that was a little bit faster. The war was over, they weren’t using this fort much anymore, so, they decided to build a bridge. So, very simply they said we need to build a bridge here, and they got an architect. The architect had a vision, actually there are a few architects, but one person has incredibly taken credit for most of the work, which was recently rectified — it’s a fascinating Wikipedia article if you have the chance to read it.
So the architects designed this gorgeous bridge, but the problem with the Golden Gate is that this is an extremely tumultuous area, if you’ve ever sailed through this or taken a boat through this, the waves are immense. Or surfed through it, which is more dangerous. It’s a disaster, I mean all the weather of the Bay is being forced through this one single point. So, all these elements create this perfect storm of turbulence. It’s extremely deep in the middle and it’s an epic span, so this was not an easy challenge.
They got a bunch of amazing engineers, and they took it step by step and iterated and iterated and iterated. There was a lot of back and forth between the architects to make this beautiful opening into this gorgeous city that we live in. And what is possible? What is beautiful? What is possible? And that’s really what it comes down to … we want to design the beautiful and build the impossible.
And a lot of people think of design, when they hear the word design as visual, something that looks pretty. Design is not just visual, design is efficiency. Design is making something simple. Design is epic. Design is making it easy for a user to get from point A to point B.
Engineering is design. Every engineer in this room, every operator in this room, every customer service agent in this room, is a designer. Because you’re designing constantly the interaction that you have with your tools or with your users or with your customers, and you’re trying to bring efficiency and take all the thinking out of that process.
So, everything we do here is design. We always want to make the beautiful — to this point — Keith, two minutes before I was supposed to start this Town Square, told me, stop. I’ve got a mistake in my slides, I forgot to capitalize an “S”. I swear. That level of perfection is what we wanna achieve, because if we achieve that level of perfection — it’s gonna take a long time to do that, a lot of hours — but then our users see it immediately, without thinking. And that’s the important part. That’s what design is.
And look at this, this is gorgeous. I mean, just look at this bridge, it’s amazing what was achieved with resources they had in the time these folks had. Millions and millions of people go over this bridge, and one of the features of this bridge is it doesn’t fall down. Reliability is a feature. This is what Brian said earlier, availability, reliability, and staying up, that’s a feature and that’s a product, and it has to be well-designed and thought after and considered, and that’s what we’re doing.
I’ve often spoken to the editorial nature of what I think my job is, I think I’m just an editor, and I think every CEO is an editor. I think every leader in any company is an editor. Taking all of these ideas and you’re editing them down to one cohesive story, and in my case, my job is to edit the team, so we have a great team that can produce the great work and that means bringing people on and in some cases having to let people go. That means editing the support for the company, which means having money in the bank, or making money, and that means editing what the vision and the communication of the company is, so that’s internal and external, what we’re saying internally and what we’re saying to the world — that’s my job. And that’s what every person in this company is also doing. We have all these inputs, we have all these places that we could go — all these things that we could do — but we need to present one cohesive story to the world.
Brian said something very interesting to me a few weeks ago, he said, support and feedback is what our customers are telling us, and product is what we’re telling our customers. I think that’s an amazing, amazing statement. We have feedback loops, and then we speak something back, the product, this company, is what we’re telling the world.
So, on this point, ideas can come from anyone, and they can come anytime. So, we all have various directions that we want to take the company and sometimes those ideas come during a shower, sometimes they come when we’re walking, sometimes they come when we’re talking with other employees at the coffee store, and sometimes you just wanna build it — you just wanna get it done — and we want to support that.
If I want to go and create a screen saver that shows all the signatures that are coming into Square in realtime, and I’m gonna go spend the weekend doing that, and I’m gonna finish it to my satisfaction so that when I go back to the company and say look at what I did, this is amazing, this is beautiful and I’ve had a lot of fun building this. And instead of saying, you know, that’s cool but we didn’t do it as a team so let’s not use it right now. Instead, let’s figure out how to say, that’s awesome, now let’s figure out how to put it into production.
So, allowing folks to work on what they want and the strong ideas that they have at any point, and then figuring out how to build it into production, and speaking to that point of reliability as a feature. Ideas happen to individuals, they happen to groups, we should allow for all of it. We should take them all in and consider them. If we don’t act on an idea, then let’s put in on the shelf, don’t throw it away, just put it in the shelf, because we may use it later in a different way then what was originally intended. This gets us to become good storytellers, and that’s what we want to do. This is about the editorial.
As a lot of you know, this is one of my favorite magazines. [Shows The Economist] This magazine is very interesting. It’s actually a newspaper — out of London. If you look through this magazine, you’ll notice a few things. First, it has a beautiful unfolding. You open the first few pages, you get all the news around the world in brief, little, 140-character news bytes of what’s happening. You want to commit some more time, then you page through and you’ll see the briefings in half pages or pages, a little bit more on what’s going on in the world, about what you just read. If you want to commit even more to any direction or any topic that you find interesting, you can read the full articles, which are multiple pages. And then at the very back are the indicators, the economic indicators, of what various aspects of the economy are doing.
The other thing you notice about this is that there are no bylines at all, there are no names in here, not even the editor has a name, it’s The Economist, they’re building The Economist, they’re writing articles for The Economist.
The editor says, I want to write about Obama, and how he needs to step it up, it’s time. He gets 5 or 6 articles, edits them into one thing that he thinks, or she thinks, will sell the magazine and tell the best story, and that becomes the magazine. This is done with every single article that’s in the magazine. And effectively every single product and feature and aspect that we’re building to our company.
So, my point here is, this company is not going to be known by one person or by five people or by multiple people. It’s going to be known by the product that we put out. We, in the Valley, think that Steve Jobs is Apple. We see Apple and we think Steve Jobs. But the mainstream audience doesn’t know who the hell Steve Jobs is. They don’t really care. They know that the Nano works, they love it, and they want to buy the next one. They could care less what this old guy in the black turtle neck does. Square is not going to be known by me, it’s not going to be known as Keith’s company, it’s not gonna be known as any other individual’s company in here, it’s going to be known as Square.
That’s what we want people to care about, and that’s what we’re trying to push, we’re trying to push, we’re trying to push the products and the brand and our story above everything else. And if you ever see that not happening, then let’s fix it. Tell me about it, we’ll fix it. Kay will help.
So, building beautiful things, it’s not easy. You can give up easily. It’s not 9 to 5 job. This is a 9 to 5 bridge [shows new slide]. Everything about this bridge says do not cross me. First of all, I don’t trust that it’s going to stay up. It’s forcing me into these narrow lanes. It’s got this mile-per-hour limit. This does not inspire. This is not aspirational to anyone. This is not something I want to cross. This is not something I want to use. It’s not something that I look at and say, wow, that’s amazing, I mean wow, What the hell were they thinking?
And a lot of people in our industry, this is what they’re building. It’s terrible. This is the bridge I want to cross. [Shows Golden Gate] This is how I want to arrive at a destination. This is classy. This is limitless. This is inspiring. This is gorgeous. Every single aspect of this is gorgeous.
Think about all of the engineers and all of the architects and all of the people that drove rock to this bridge and their families and how happy and proud they are when they walk over this bridge and when they see this bridge in newspapers and they see it in movies and they are part of this bridge. That’s what we all want to feel. That’s what I want to feel, and I know everyone in this room wants to feel.
So, this is why design is important and this is why this coordination is important, and this is how we’re leading and building this company. So, your homework for the weekend is to cross this bridge, think about that, and then also think about how we take those lessons into doing what we want do, which is carry every single transaction in the world.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Lockheed Martin Unveils Orion Spacecraft
Forging a new path forward to ensure safe, affordable and sustainable human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin today unveiled the first Orion spacecraft and a spacious state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC). These two major projects, located at Lockheed Martin’s Waterton Facility near Denver, Colo., showcase the NASA-industry teams’ progress for human space flight, the Orion Project and NASA’s Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
About this talk
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.
Remarkable technology lets you check into TV
Foursquare for TV is how many people define new company IntoNow. But it really has some wild technology behind it which will change how I view TV forever. They compete with a few other companies like Miso, Philo, and GetGlue, but I like their technology approach much better. Check this company out! Here's the executive team showing it off and explaining how it works. http://www.intonow.com/ is where you get it.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ...
About this talk
"If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. -- and gives two breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."
Why you should listen to her:
hands are not about politics / this is a poem about love / and fingers/ fingers interlock like a beautiful zipper of prayer
--Sarah Kay
Plenty of 14-year-old girls write poetry. But few hide under the bar of the famous Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan’s East Village absorbing the talents of New York’s most exciting poets. Sarah Kay also had the guts to take its stage and hold her own against performers at least a decade her senior. Her talent for weaving words into poignant, funny, and powerful performances paid off.
Now 22, Kay is a successful spoken word poet and codirects Project V.O.I.C.E. (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression). Founded by Kay in 2004, Project V.O.I.C.E. encourages people, particularly teenagers, to use spoken word as a tool for understanding the world and self, and a medium for vital expression.
"A day with Sarah Kay reminded me of poetry's power to help us make sense of our lives, to see the world in a new way."
Deb Martin, Rowan University
Friday, March 18, 2011
Gluster (storage folks behind Pandora) adopts OpenStack and talks datacenters and cloud
Gluster http://www.gluster.com/ provides the storage behind the music service, Pandora, and this week they announced support for OpenStack, which will make moving data from cloud service to service easier, because the platform underneath is open source. Here Ben Golub, CEO, talks to us about this decision and what's happening in data centers. More on this news here: http://www.gluster.com/2011/03/15/gluster-joins-openstack-community-2/
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Im About To Whip Somebody's Ass
As the story goes...............
Hi, my name is ray and on yesterday my daughter called me, hum it to yourself, the words are, I'm about to whip somebodies ass oh if you don't leave me allow their gunna have to send me home cuz...
Behind the Webb: Wax On, Wax Off
The making of the Webb Space Telescope's mirrors is a complex process. Each surface must be precisely shaped to capture and direct the maximum amount of light to the telescope's detectors. The mirrors must be ground and polished to a smooth curve that keeps light from bouncing off in unwanted directions. Join us at Tinsley Laboratories in Richmond, Calif., where engineers are bringing Webb's mirrors to their exact requirements.
"Behind the Webb" is an ongoing series that follows the construction of the Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor. Find more episodes at Hubblesite.org.
"Behind the Webb" archive
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/behind_the_webb/archive/
The Webb Telescope: Technology at the Extremes
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/technology_at_the_extremes/
Webb Space Telescope mirrors Tinsley Laboratories
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
David Brooks: Columnist
About this talk
Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.
Why you should listen to him:
Writer and thinker David Brooks has covered business, crime and politics (as well as subbing in as the Wall Street Journal's movie critic) over a long career in journalism. He's now an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in a legendary run that started in September 2003.
His column looks deeply into the social currents that underpin American life. He's the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. His newest book, The Social Animal, examines new findings in brain science in the context of a story about two succesful people whose lives unfold in ways that neurological research is helping us understand more deeply.
Brroks is a frequent analyst on NPR’s All Things Considered and a commentator on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
About this talk
With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek.
Rob Harmon is an expert on energy and natural resources policy -- looking at smart ways to manage carbon, water and the energy we use every day.
Why you should listen to him:
Taking the true measure of our environmental footprint is something that Rob Harmon has been doing for years. Starting as an energy auditor in Massachusetts, Harmon went on to manage an international marketing effort in the wind energy industry and, in 2000, develop and launch the first carbon calculator on the Internet.
Harmon joined Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) in 1999, and is credited with developing their Green Tag program. In 2004, he was awarded the national Green Power Pioneer Award for his introduction of the retail Green Tag (Renewable Energy Certificates) and his ongoing efforts to build a thriving and credible Green Tag market in the United States. He also conceptualized and directed the development of BEF's national Solar 4R Schools program. His latest venture is the creation of BEF's Water Restoration Certificate business line, which utilizes voluntary markets to restore critically de-watered ecosystems. He recently contributed chapters to the book Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work. Rob left BEF in November 2010 to explore his next venture, ConvenientOpportunities.com.
Robot solves Rubik’s Cube in 15 seconds
A Rubik’s Cube has been sitting on Joe Ridgeway’s shelf since he was a child, but it wasn’t until he was studying at Rowan University that he fully embraced its challenge…
In a project that started in a Rowan course, Ridgeway and Zachary Grady, both senior electrical and computer engineering (ECE) majors, have built a robot that solves the cube in 15 seconds.
The Rubik’s Cube-Solving Robot, a year in the making, has earned the duo more than 17,000 hits on YouTube and a congratulatory note from Erno Rubik himself. And though it’s not yet official, they are confident, based on their research, that the robot is the fastest of its kind…
The robot wastes little time – after 17 moves, it twirls the descrambled cube in a modest celebration.
Ridgeway, 21, and Grady, 22, made the machine from scratch, they said, working under the guidance of Mease and ECE chair Shreekanth Mandayam and with mechanical-engineering help from graduate student Karl Dyer.
Japan Earthquake Live
continued...............
Watch the dramatic scenes as the tsunami smashes the Iwate prefecture in Japan.
Smashed by Tsunami
The-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor
Watch the dramatic scenes as the tsunami smashes the Iwate prefecture in Japan.
Smashed by Tsunami
The-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
與咖啡的最佳距離
與咖啡的最佳距離
「再忙也要和你喝杯咖啡。」的經典廣告台詞令人印象深刻，風靡全球的咖啡魅力與對咖啡的眾多疑懼並存，喝咖啡到底好不好？有沒有方法能收咖啡之利，又不受其害？
�@�̡G李雪莉 �@�X�B�G天下雜誌
從便利商店平價咖啡、罐裝咖啡到精品咖啡館，台灣這幾年的咖啡市場蓬勃，規模上估兩百億。
「喝杯咖啡」不僅成為生活中休閒的註腳，這幾年，不少研究更指出，這種帶著濃郁香味和些微苦澀的飲料，還可能對身體有益。
日前國外的研究指出，咖啡對肝纖維化有保護效果：一天平均攝取二一二毫克咖啡因左右的肝病患者，要較攝取一五四毫克左右咖啡因的患者肝纖維化程度要輕。
過去更有研究指出，咖啡能抗憂鬱、控制體重，甚至可抗癌和預防心血管疾病；儘管對咖啡會不會造成骨質疏鬆、會不會咖啡上癮等恐懼，也一直沒有消失。
喝咖啡到底好不好？有沒有方法能收咖啡之利，又不受其害？
咖啡的好與壞 一體兩面
國泰醫院肝臟中心主治醫師黃奕文指出，許多對喝咖啡有益健康的「平反」是流行病學的研究，由觀察推導出結論，而非實驗的結果，儘管證據明確，還是有其限制。
此外，許多喝咖啡的好處，還未有最終定論。
如過去認為，過量的咖啡會提高罹患心血管疾病的風險，但也有人指出，咖啡中有抗氧化成分，對癌症、糖尿病的預防有幫助，也能保護心血管。去年荷蘭的一份研究甚至指出，一天喝兩到四杯咖啡，能降低罹患心臟病的風險。究竟咖啡對心血管疾病是好是壞？答案還莫衷一是。
而咖啡帶來的「好」，許多其實是有條件的，不宜過度解讀。
內湖國泰診所營養師張斯蘭就指出，如有研究指出一百毫克的咖啡因能增加身體三％至四％的新陳代謝，因此能協助控制體重。但必須注意這只是暫時性的刺激；如果長期喝，身體適應刺激，不見得就能提高代謝。林口長庚營養治療科營養師曹雅姿更提醒，如果咖啡裡加了糖或奶精，反而會帶來熱量。
新光醫院營養師謝宛青也舉例，咖啡中的咖啡因會刺激腸胃蠕動，因此有改善便秘的效果；相反的，有大腸急躁症、或者胃潰瘍的人，咖啡因刺激胃酸分泌，或腸胃蠕動更快，反而更不舒服。
喝咖啡停看聽
咖啡的許多「好」與「壞」，其實是一體兩面；研究結果也還不一致，不該將咖啡視為預防的保健品或治療的藥物。專家們建議：
適量攝取。咖啡因攝取量一天建議不超過三百毫克。許多連鎖咖啡店已開始以顏色標示咖啡因含量：紅色表示含咖啡因兩百至三百、或三百毫克以上；黃色是一百至兩百毫克，綠色是一百毫克以下。而如星巴克還提供每一種咖啡的咖啡因含量。
避開咖啡的時機
但這平均、標準、實際效果可因人而異：有人一天喝三杯還沒事，有人卻半杯就會睡不著。曹雅姿建議，當發生如心悸等不舒服、不適應的狀況，就不要喝；此外，在可樂、巧克力等其他食物中，也含有咖啡因。
特別要注意的是，許多人以為喝拿鐵，攝入的咖啡因就比較少。但曹雅姿指出，曾有調查發現，不同超商的拿鐵，咖啡因含量從九十毫克到三百六十多毫克都有，重點還是在咖啡和牛奶的比例。
避開咖啡禁忌。有幾種人是不適合喝咖啡的，包括發育中的兒童、懷孕期或哺乳的人、老年人、空腹者、腸道敏感的、胃酸過多的、服用鎮靜劑的、抽菸者、喝酒後、洗腎病人、高血壓患者等。
張斯蘭也建議，有睡眠障礙的人，中午過後，就不要喝咖啡。
感冒時也不建議喝咖啡。謝宛青指出，這主要是因為感冒需要多休息，咖啡卻會讓中樞神經興奮。
更年期後的婦女也最好不要多喝咖啡。咖啡其實不是引起骨質疏鬆的原因；謝宛青指出，一般年輕女孩子如果補充足夠的鈣質，適量飲用咖啡其實不用擔心；但更年期後的婦女因為女性荷爾蒙減少，鈣質本就會大量流失，這時候就不建議再多喝咖啡。
避開糖與奶精。適量的咖啡無害，加入的糖與奶精卻會傷身。
糖和奶精除了增加熱量外，奶精裡多有反式脂肪，反式脂肪長期會在血管壁上沈積。營養師建議，可以低脂牛奶代替奶精，既避開反式脂肪風險，又可增加鈣質吸收。
「再忙也要和你喝杯咖啡。」的經典廣告台詞令人印象深刻，風靡全球的咖啡魅力與對咖啡的眾多疑懼並存，喝咖啡到底好不好？有沒有方法能收咖啡之利，又不受其害？
�@�̡G李雪莉 �@�X�B�G天下雜誌
從便利商店平價咖啡、罐裝咖啡到精品咖啡館，台灣這幾年的咖啡市場蓬勃，規模上估兩百億。
「喝杯咖啡」不僅成為生活中休閒的註腳，這幾年，不少研究更指出，這種帶著濃郁香味和些微苦澀的飲料，還可能對身體有益。
日前國外的研究指出，咖啡對肝纖維化有保護效果：一天平均攝取二一二毫克咖啡因左右的肝病患者，要較攝取一五四毫克左右咖啡因的患者肝纖維化程度要輕。
過去更有研究指出，咖啡能抗憂鬱、控制體重，甚至可抗癌和預防心血管疾病；儘管對咖啡會不會造成骨質疏鬆、會不會咖啡上癮等恐懼，也一直沒有消失。
喝咖啡到底好不好？有沒有方法能收咖啡之利，又不受其害？
咖啡的好與壞 一體兩面
國泰醫院肝臟中心主治醫師黃奕文指出，許多對喝咖啡有益健康的「平反」是流行病學的研究，由觀察推導出結論，而非實驗的結果，儘管證據明確，還是有其限制。
此外，許多喝咖啡的好處，還未有最終定論。
如過去認為，過量的咖啡會提高罹患心血管疾病的風險，但也有人指出，咖啡中有抗氧化成分，對癌症、糖尿病的預防有幫助，也能保護心血管。去年荷蘭的一份研究甚至指出，一天喝兩到四杯咖啡，能降低罹患心臟病的風險。究竟咖啡對心血管疾病是好是壞？答案還莫衷一是。
而咖啡帶來的「好」，許多其實是有條件的，不宜過度解讀。
內湖國泰診所營養師張斯蘭就指出，如有研究指出一百毫克的咖啡因能增加身體三％至四％的新陳代謝，因此能協助控制體重。但必須注意這只是暫時性的刺激；如果長期喝，身體適應刺激，不見得就能提高代謝。林口長庚營養治療科營養師曹雅姿更提醒，如果咖啡裡加了糖或奶精，反而會帶來熱量。
新光醫院營養師謝宛青也舉例，咖啡中的咖啡因會刺激腸胃蠕動，因此有改善便秘的效果；相反的，有大腸急躁症、或者胃潰瘍的人，咖啡因刺激胃酸分泌，或腸胃蠕動更快，反而更不舒服。
喝咖啡停看聽
咖啡的許多「好」與「壞」，其實是一體兩面；研究結果也還不一致，不該將咖啡視為預防的保健品或治療的藥物。專家們建議：
適量攝取。咖啡因攝取量一天建議不超過三百毫克。許多連鎖咖啡店已開始以顏色標示咖啡因含量：紅色表示含咖啡因兩百至三百、或三百毫克以上；黃色是一百至兩百毫克，綠色是一百毫克以下。而如星巴克還提供每一種咖啡的咖啡因含量。
避開咖啡的時機
但這平均、標準、實際效果可因人而異：有人一天喝三杯還沒事，有人卻半杯就會睡不著。曹雅姿建議，當發生如心悸等不舒服、不適應的狀況，就不要喝；此外，在可樂、巧克力等其他食物中，也含有咖啡因。
特別要注意的是，許多人以為喝拿鐵，攝入的咖啡因就比較少。但曹雅姿指出，曾有調查發現，不同超商的拿鐵，咖啡因含量從九十毫克到三百六十多毫克都有，重點還是在咖啡和牛奶的比例。
避開咖啡禁忌。有幾種人是不適合喝咖啡的，包括發育中的兒童、懷孕期或哺乳的人、老年人、空腹者、腸道敏感的、胃酸過多的、服用鎮靜劑的、抽菸者、喝酒後、洗腎病人、高血壓患者等。
張斯蘭也建議，有睡眠障礙的人，中午過後，就不要喝咖啡。
感冒時也不建議喝咖啡。謝宛青指出，這主要是因為感冒需要多休息，咖啡卻會讓中樞神經興奮。
更年期後的婦女也最好不要多喝咖啡。咖啡其實不是引起骨質疏鬆的原因；謝宛青指出，一般年輕女孩子如果補充足夠的鈣質，適量飲用咖啡其實不用擔心；但更年期後的婦女因為女性荷爾蒙減少，鈣質本就會大量流失，這時候就不建議再多喝咖啡。
避開糖與奶精。適量的咖啡無害，加入的糖與奶精卻會傷身。
糖和奶精除了增加熱量外，奶精裡多有反式脂肪，反式脂肪長期會在血管壁上沈積。營養師建議，可以低脂牛奶代替奶精，既避開反式脂肪風險，又可增加鈣質吸收。
「見義勇為」是壞事？
「見義勇為」是壞事？
「路見不平、拔刀相助」原本是被推崇的美德，但曾幾何時，「見義勇為」卻變成要被處罰的行為了。為什麼學校和社會要教孩子見死不救？
�@�̡G洪 蘭 �@�X�B�G天下雜誌
見義勇為一向是傳統美德，「路見不平、拔刀相助」的俠士，曾是我們小時候憧憬的對象，連司馬遷都在《史記》中寫「遊俠列傳」。但曾幾何時，急難助人變成要受處罰的行為了。有一位媽媽拿著小學三年級社會科考題給我看：當你看到一位殘障同學需要幫助時，你應該?假裝看不見，趕快走開?見義勇為去幫助他?趕快去報告老師。她兒子選?，結果正確答案是?。老師還說：你逞什麼英雄？要害學校被告嗎？我看到這答案很驚愕，但了解這是玻璃娃娃判例的後遺症：學校不敢收特殊殘障的孩子，同學不敢幫忙他上廁所，因為萬一不湊巧，傾家蕩產賠不完。
無獨有偶，去年七月西雅圖市中心的一家銀行遭搶，一個戴太陽眼鏡、鴨舌帽的年輕人把一個背包推到櫃台前面，命令行員把錢裝進去。這年輕的行員恰好是運動好手，立刻跳出來追，成功把搶匪壓到地上，直到警察把他逮捕。但是這位「英雄」卻在兩天後被銀行開除，因為他違反了銀行的規定：銀行要求行員碰到搶劫時，要順應搶匪的要求，盡快把他送出銀行之外，反正錢都有聯邦保險，如果跟搶匪格鬥，可能會受傷並傷及無辜。西雅圖的警察也說他們只要求市民做個「好的目擊者」，並不要求市民見義勇為。
我們當然了解，要幫助別人必須先看自己有沒有這個能力，但是明令不得幫忙就有點過分了。「不平則鳴」是良心的吶喊，「見義勇為」是人善良本性的反應，怎麼到了二十一世紀，反而要回過頭來教孩子自私：凡是不關他的事都不要管，管了要挨罰。這種態度正是造成黃春明在宜蘭騎機車摔倒在地上十五分鐘無人相救，也使許多本來有救的傷者血流到光死去。
這態度是很不對的，現在地球是平的了，彼此是休戚相關，正如這位英勇行員講的：「我知道銀行有這個規定，但當事情發生時，我只想到這個二十歲的年輕人什麼事不好做，要來搶銀行？我今天讓他搶，明天他會去搶另一家銀行。」沒錯，他今天得手了，明天食髓知味，他會再去搶別的銀行，社會會亂不就是大家姑息養奸嗎？校園霸凌會這麼嚴重，不也是大家睜一隻眼、閉一隻眼，只要沒欺負到我，就假裝沒看到嗎？
最近公車上，有一個高一女生在眾目睽睽下，被色狼手指性侵並被拖下公車強暴，公車上的人都有看到，卻沒有一個人出面制止或告知司機，這就是這種判例的後果。一個好的法律帶領社會前進，一個壞的判例也會產生寒蟬效應，並使孩子誤以為這個世界是「人不為己，天誅地滅」，壞事只管放膽做，反正沒人會出面檢舉你。
犯罪不只是看行為後果，要看動機，「有心為善，雖善不賞，無心為過，雖過不罰」，為什麼我們要處罰幫玻璃娃娃的那位同學無心之過，把「公義」這扇門關掉了？
「路見不平、拔刀相助」原本是被推崇的美德，但曾幾何時，「見義勇為」卻變成要被處罰的行為了。為什麼學校和社會要教孩子見死不救？
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見義勇為一向是傳統美德，「路見不平、拔刀相助」的俠士，曾是我們小時候憧憬的對象，連司馬遷都在《史記》中寫「遊俠列傳」。但曾幾何時，急難助人變成要受處罰的行為了。有一位媽媽拿著小學三年級社會科考題給我看：當你看到一位殘障同學需要幫助時，你應該?假裝看不見，趕快走開?見義勇為去幫助他?趕快去報告老師。她兒子選?，結果正確答案是?。老師還說：你逞什麼英雄？要害學校被告嗎？我看到這答案很驚愕，但了解這是玻璃娃娃判例的後遺症：學校不敢收特殊殘障的孩子，同學不敢幫忙他上廁所，因為萬一不湊巧，傾家蕩產賠不完。
無獨有偶，去年七月西雅圖市中心的一家銀行遭搶，一個戴太陽眼鏡、鴨舌帽的年輕人把一個背包推到櫃台前面，命令行員把錢裝進去。這年輕的行員恰好是運動好手，立刻跳出來追，成功把搶匪壓到地上，直到警察把他逮捕。但是這位「英雄」卻在兩天後被銀行開除，因為他違反了銀行的規定：銀行要求行員碰到搶劫時，要順應搶匪的要求，盡快把他送出銀行之外，反正錢都有聯邦保險，如果跟搶匪格鬥，可能會受傷並傷及無辜。西雅圖的警察也說他們只要求市民做個「好的目擊者」，並不要求市民見義勇為。
我們當然了解，要幫助別人必須先看自己有沒有這個能力，但是明令不得幫忙就有點過分了。「不平則鳴」是良心的吶喊，「見義勇為」是人善良本性的反應，怎麼到了二十一世紀，反而要回過頭來教孩子自私：凡是不關他的事都不要管，管了要挨罰。這種態度正是造成黃春明在宜蘭騎機車摔倒在地上十五分鐘無人相救，也使許多本來有救的傷者血流到光死去。
這態度是很不對的，現在地球是平的了，彼此是休戚相關，正如這位英勇行員講的：「我知道銀行有這個規定，但當事情發生時，我只想到這個二十歲的年輕人什麼事不好做，要來搶銀行？我今天讓他搶，明天他會去搶另一家銀行。」沒錯，他今天得手了，明天食髓知味，他會再去搶別的銀行，社會會亂不就是大家姑息養奸嗎？校園霸凌會這麼嚴重，不也是大家睜一隻眼、閉一隻眼，只要沒欺負到我，就假裝沒看到嗎？
最近公車上，有一個高一女生在眾目睽睽下，被色狼手指性侵並被拖下公車強暴，公車上的人都有看到，卻沒有一個人出面制止或告知司機，這就是這種判例的後果。一個好的法律帶領社會前進，一個壞的判例也會產生寒蟬效應，並使孩子誤以為這個世界是「人不為己，天誅地滅」，壞事只管放膽做，反正沒人會出面檢舉你。
犯罪不只是看行為後果，要看動機，「有心為善，雖善不賞，無心為過，雖過不罰」，為什麼我們要處罰幫玻璃娃娃的那位同學無心之過，把「公義」這扇門關掉了？
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
About this talk
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
So, ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement. So let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under three minutes and dissect some lessons from it.
First, of course you know, a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed. But what he's doing is so easy to follow. So here's his first follower with a crucial role. He's going to show everyone else how to follow.
Now, notice that the leader embraces him as an equal. So, now it's not about the leader anymore; it's about them, plural. Now, there he is calling to his friends. Now, if you notice that the first follower
is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. It takes guts just to stand out like that. The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader. (Laughter) (Applause)
And here comes a second follower. Now it's not a lone nut, it's not two nuts, three is a crowd, and a crowd is news. So a movement must be public. It's important, not just to show the leader, but the followers because you find that new followers emulate the followers, not the leader.
Now, here comes two more people, and immediately after, three more people. Now we've got momentum. This is the tipping point. Now we've got a movement. So, notice that, as more people join in, it's less risky. So those that were sitting on the fence before, now have no reason not to. They won't stand out. They won't be ridiculed. But they will be part of the in-crowd if they hurry. (Laughter) So, over the next minute, you'll see all of those that prefer to stick with the crowd because eventually they would be ridiculed for not joining in, and that's how you make a movement.
But let's recap some lessons from this. So first, if you are the type, like the shirtless dancing guy that is standing alone, remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals so it's clearly about the movement, not you. Okay, but we might have missed the real lesson here.
The biggest lesson, if you noticed -- did you catch it -- is that leadership is over-glorified, that, yes, it was the shirtless guy was first, and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective.
If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in. And what a perfect place to do that, TED.
Thanks. (Applause)
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
So, ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement. So let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under three minutes and dissect some lessons from it.
First, of course you know, a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed. But what he's doing is so easy to follow. So here's his first follower with a crucial role. He's going to show everyone else how to follow.
Now, notice that the leader embraces him as an equal. So, now it's not about the leader anymore; it's about them, plural. Now, there he is calling to his friends. Now, if you notice that the first follower
is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. It takes guts just to stand out like that. The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader. (Laughter) (Applause)
And here comes a second follower. Now it's not a lone nut, it's not two nuts, three is a crowd, and a crowd is news. So a movement must be public. It's important, not just to show the leader, but the followers because you find that new followers emulate the followers, not the leader.
Now, here comes two more people, and immediately after, three more people. Now we've got momentum. This is the tipping point. Now we've got a movement. So, notice that, as more people join in, it's less risky. So those that were sitting on the fence before, now have no reason not to. They won't stand out. They won't be ridiculed. But they will be part of the in-crowd if they hurry. (Laughter) So, over the next minute, you'll see all of those that prefer to stick with the crowd because eventually they would be ridiculed for not joining in, and that's how you make a movement.
But let's recap some lessons from this. So first, if you are the type, like the shirtless dancing guy that is standing alone, remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals so it's clearly about the movement, not you. Okay, but we might have missed the real lesson here.
The biggest lesson, if you noticed -- did you catch it -- is that leadership is over-glorified, that, yes, it was the shirtless guy was first, and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective.
If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in. And what a perfect place to do that, TED.
Thanks. (Applause)
Flipboard new version brings Instagram and other goodies
Flipboard just shipped a new version to the iPad, just in time for the iPad 2. It is full of new goodies. CEO Mike McCue gives us a great look and then talks to us about advertising, business models, and more (he's on the board of directors of Twitter, so he has a unique view of the publishing industry).
Mike McCue has had quite a year. Since launching last year he’s:
1. Won Apple’s best iPad app of the year award.
2. Been on Oprah.
3. Racked up more than a million downloads.
4. Been named to Twitter’s board of directors.
Tonight Flipboard released a new version that adds a few new features:
1. Instagram photo support.
2. Much faster performance (and that’s before the iPad 2 comes along, which will double speed).
3. Make it easier to discover new content via searches.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what will come this year from Flipboard as they start rolling in new filtering and discovery technology that they purchased with the Ellerdale Project acquisition they made.
In the 30-minute interview Mike talks about the new competition that Flipboard is seeing and also explains how they will do advertising and where they are heading.
Toward the end of the interview Mike takes us around the office and introduces us to what everyone is doing.
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