A Presentation and Conversation with Ray Kurzweil and Tim O’Reilly

by Ben Taylor on March 10, 2010 · Comments in Interviews, Presentations, Videos

Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.) and Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media, Inc.), “A Presentation and Conversation with Ray Kurzweil and Tim O’Reilly” The interview is a few minutes under an hour. But it’s worth checking out Ray’s interactive text book demo (minute 4:00). In terms of reference material, even non fiction, this is precisely where we need to be in terms of how we interact with text, both in and out of the classroom.

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Pranav Mistry: The Potential of SixthSense Technology

by Ben Taylor on February 18, 2010 · Comments in Presentations, Videos Tagged as:

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

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SEO and Small Business Marketing

January 18, 2010 Interviews

A 30 minute minute video is an eternity online, but it’s a really interesting conversation but Robert Scoble and the founders of My Next Customer about small business marketing and search engine optimization. I don’t believe SEO is losing it’s importance but certainly we’re seeing the methodology of SEO changing. There should be no surprise [...]

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2009 LeWeb: Day Two Highlights

December 12, 2009 Interviews

Fireside Chat with Gary Vaynerchuk, Host, Wine Library TV, Author, CrushIT & Loic Le Meur, Founder, Le Web

Fireside Chat with Jack Dorsey, Inventor, Founder & Chairman, Twitter & Loic Le Meur, Founder, Le Web

Gillmore Gang

Steve Gillmor, Editor, TechCrunchIT
Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
Paul Carr, British Writer & Columnist
Jack Dorsey, Inventor, Founder & Chairman, Twitter
Andrew Keen, Author, Cult [...]

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2009 LeWeb: Day One Highlights

December 9, 2009 Interviews

The 6th edition of the LeWeb tech conference is being held in Paris this week, December 9th and 10th 2009 in Le cent Quatre. Brainchild of Loïc Le Meur, 
LeWeb covers a wide range of topics including industry trends, start-ups, and entrepreneurship in the field of technology. The main stage program features internet leaders and [...]

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Ignite: Language is a Map – by Tim O’Reilly

December 4, 2009 Business and Finance

Ignite talks are are short five minute presentations using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. The talks cover a wide range of topics.

Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, explains how what he learned from the Human Potential Movement of the 70’s has become the foundation of his business today.
I’ve seen Tim O’Reilly give talks [...]

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Brian Solis: On PR, Social Media, and the Evolution of the Web

December 1, 2009 Interviews

Having just read Putting the Public Back in Public Relations by PR guru and author Brian Solis,  I was thrilled when I found a great series of videos from a recent interview Brian gave with Robert Scoble about his thoughts on the evolution and future of PR, social media, technology, and the social economy. I’ve included [...]

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Lijit Search: A Conversation with Todd Vernon, CEO

November 29, 2009 Interviews

Ligit search is a network-based search application for publishers allowing content creators to index and define search across their network, including blogs, influencers, and user generated content from social networking sites. The Ligit search results display works well, better than Google custom search iframes and it is miles ahead of the Wordpress default search, both [...]

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Baratunde Thurston – There’s a Hashtag for That

November 23, 2009 Culture

Absolutely hilarious. Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, vigilante pundit and television host. He is the co-founder of Jack & Jill Politics, blogs for The Huffington Post and his own site baratunde.com, and hosts “Popular Science’s Future Of” on the Science Channel.

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Jeff Jarvis: What Would Google Do?

November 17, 2009 Culture

I’m a big fan of Jeff Jarvis. I recently read his book What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), I found it refreshingly insightful. If you don’t know Jeff Jarvis he runs Buzz Machine, a popular blog about media and news . He is an associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the [...]

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