In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.
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Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world
By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web – building a “social layer” on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the “game layer,” a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.
Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices
Sure the web connects the globe but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don’t even
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Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet
In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: ‘How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control?’ She believes the internet is headed for a “Magna Carta” moment when citizens around the
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Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender
Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences but they’re becoming increasingly harder to track online, says media researcher Johanna Blakley. As social media outgrows traditional media and women users outnumber men, Blakley explains what changes are in store for the future of media.
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