Top 10 TED Talks

29 Jun 2008 In: Conferences & Workshops

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Top 10 TED Talks of all time
1. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
2. Jeff Han: Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone
3. David Gallo: Underwater astonishments
4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
5. Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic”
6. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
7. Hans Rosling: The best stats you’ve ever seen
8. Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better
9. Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis
10. Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

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What is the Web for? And why do we care so much? Why has this simple technology sent a lightning bolt through our culture? It goes far beyond the Web’s over-hyped economic impact: 500 million of us aren’t there because we want a better “shopping experience.” The Web, a world of pure connection, free of the arbitrary constraints of matter, distance and time, is showing us who we are - and is undoing some of our deepest misunderstandings about what it means to be human in the real world.

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Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology — and invents ways to keep itself alive.

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About Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore studies memes — those self-replicating “life forms” that spread themselves via human consciousness. We’re now headed, she believes, toward a new form of meme.

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Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

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About Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins pioneered the development of PDAs such as the Palm and Treo. Now he’s trying to understand how the human brain really works, and adapt its method — which he describes as a deep system.

Tesla: Le magicien oublié

29 Apr 2008 In: Experience Design

The Universe Project

23 Apr 2008 In: Experience Design

EnlightenNext is a global movement dedicated to the evolution of consciousness and culture. For over twenty years, all of our endeavors have been fueled by the conviction that for our world to change in a significant way, those of us at the leading edge urgently need to evolve. Our mission is a vast one (but one that’s entirely possible!). We’re committed to inspiring, awakening, and empowering a passion to evolve consciousness in as many individuals as possible, so together we can become a collective force for transformation— embodying, at the deepest level of our being, the inherent positivity and dynamic creativity behind the ever-evolving universe.

Will you join the movement ! 

 I just found a very inspiring Post on Conversation Agent about the latest Work of Daniel Pink (Author of A Whole New Mind) on

Pink is dispensing career advice with a comic book - Johnny Bunko.

  • Job search can be seen as temporary, frustrating, subject to the highs and lows of energy we all experience and to the vagaries of the marketplace on which we feel we have no control. We see a job search as totally focused on the immediate need.
  • Career management is the ongoing discipline of developing relationships (inside and outside your industry, company, and line of work), learning new skills, sharing contacts and information freely, mapping out your options at any point in time, and taking control of your destiny. We see a career as an active pursuit that can open new possibilities for us.

Hello, Architekt!  is a collective of User Experience Planning Advisor, Network of various types of storytellers and creative toughts-processes cartographers.

Basically we:

  1. Develop tools to help decision-making at every stages of a Web (or not) Projects.

  2. Develop  tools that:
    1. Generate and sustain high-value by creating and implementing Guided or Adhoc Collective Creativity processes
    2. Generate workflows that works (Save Time, Add Value,  Identify Risks)

  3. Develop or Adapt existing Service Model to augment the Value of any Web (or not) Projects.

The Stages Hello, Architekt can jump in may be the following:

  • Idea Generation (I work closely with a network of Brand Strategists)
  • Strategy - Story
  • Planning
  • Model
  • Concept
  • Design
  • Execution
  • Evaluation
  • Position
  • Site Management Tactics
  • Relational - Social Media Tactics

StayNomad est né en juillet 2007 et a entrepris ses premiers pas sur le web cet automne. Son caractère social et sa vision responsable lui ont permis de s’entourer rapidement de solides partenaires. Ses voyages et sa participation à plusieurs événements lui ont donné l’opportunité de développer un solide réseau réparti dans plus de 40 pays. StayNomad avance d’un pas déterminé dans le but de prendre son envol au début de 2008 et ainsi devenir une destination web incontournable.

Voir l’article sur le site de l’INSTITUT DU NOUVEAU MONDE

Richard I Anderson wrote an amazing post about the fact that User experience professionals continue to attempt to move their work and impact “upstream” — to play an earlier and more strategic role in their workplaces’ business.

Here is some gems from that Post:

“The same communication skills that help designers create effective visual and interaction designs for products can also play a significant role elsewhere in the product development process especially during early strategic work. …

… Especially early on in the product development process, design artifacts are able to create buy-in for a product vision, provide market context, or illuminate data, processes, goals, and the impact of decisions.”

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A rare and skillful collective of Ubiquitous Computing Advisors, Conversation & Information Architects, Relational, Conceptual, Semantic and Visual Artists, Creative Directors & Producers, Strategic Advisors, User Experience Planners, Multidisciplinary Performers, Interaction Designers & Technology Wizards, Interactive and Organizational StoryTellers, Content Developers, Cartographer of Toughts, Workforce Planners, Change Agents and many Hilarious Clowns.

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