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Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

www.ted.com 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.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore …

Marketing Talks at Google presents Matt Bailey

Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008 ABSTRACT Analytics Into Action Analytics according to Captain Kirk – The original Star Trek series explains many of the principles of analytics and the necessary tools for understanding visitor motivations, segments and website analysis. By looking deeper into the trekkie phenomenon, analysts can better understand how to make website data actionable and enjoyable. Speaker: Matt Bailey

Google D.C. Talks: A Conversation with Craig Newmark

As part of the Google DC Talks series, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, discusses the history of Craigslist, the future of the Web, and the Internet’s role in improving democracy. This event took place on October 3, 2008 at Google’s offices in Washington, DC

Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights

http://www.ted.com In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10