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In this video Ed Ulbrich from Digital Domain talks about the technology they developed to show Brad Pitt growing younger in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The team won the Oscar for best special effects.
A great example of how technology is allowing our storytellers the ability to create our own view of reality.
Posted by austin under Community, Conference
Last year at TED I posted a small list of TEDsters who were Twittering the conference.
I hadn’t planned on posting an updated guide of TEDsters & Twitter this year since I assumed that most people would be using http://search.twitter.com to track #TED, TED or TED2009 keywords to track the conversation.
After seeing the recent spike in search traffic to last years Twitter TED guide, I’ve decided to update the list of people I know are Twittering the TED conference this year. Some of these people are posting more often then others and many are not including the #TED hashtag.
I hope this will also allow TEDsters to connect with each other, since many of us may not have had the chance to exchange Twitter names. It might help us know who are the Tweeters in our neighborhood.
If you’ve been left of the list and are Twittering at the TED conference, leave a comment with your Twitter username or just @austinhill me on Twitter.
TED Twitter Accounts & TED Staff
Great live TED Twitter Coverage
TED attendees twittering about the conference
In no particular order
New Additions Feb 6th 1:52pm PST
TED PalmSpings Attendees & Coverage
Great Blog Coverage
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While checking out the very cool new electric motorcycle developed by the team at Mission Motors today at the TED conference, the TED balloon that was anchored over the conference area decided to take a trip.
This is some video that my friend Loic LeMeur and I happened to grab from two different perspectives.
This is the video that Loic was filming at the time. It includes an interview with the team from Mission Motors. Very cool motorcyle I want one.
Posted by austin under Conference, Entrepreneurs, Fundraising
Every year at Web 2.0 Summit, Mark Meeker presents the Morgan Stanley state of the Tech Industry research. Given the incredible changes we are seeing the general economy with a recession having started, uncertain growth prospects and overall stock & economic fallout I think it is important for most companies to to understand how some of these global trends affect their industries.
Specifically if you look at what occurred in the last the technology recession to ad revenue on the Internet (Slide 16) you can get a good feel for both the opportunities and risks to some sectors of the technology industry.
The source presentation is at the Morgan Stanley website, but I’ve uploaded and embedded a copy on Slideshare.net.
Posted by austin under Canada Tech Scene, Conference, Startup Resources
I’m really pleased to be speaking at Startup Empire on November 13th in Toronto. 
I’m going to be running a hands on workshop for entrepreneurs entitled “Slow down & Speed Up - Managing A Startup in Turbulent Times”.
In my workshop I’ll be sharing some strategies & tools for the following aspects of your business,
Jevon McDonald & David Crow have put together a great line up of speakers and sponsors.
The organizers have recently dropped the price to a very affordable price of $69 for the entire day conference.
At the same time I know many entrepreneurs who watching budgets & may not feel they can afford to attend (travel & conference fees) so we are announcing a quick contest for entrepreneurs interested in joining us at the conference.
FlowVentures, AngelSoft and Brudder Ventures StartupEmpire Contest
In the spirit of creating great opportunities for entrepreneurs I have partnered with my friend Raymond Luk from FlowVentures and the team from AngelSoft to sponsor 10 entrepreneurs to get the following packages.
The contest is open to any entrepreneur, startup or aspiring entrepreneur who working building a technology startup.
To enter the contest all you need to do is send an email to startupempire [@] brudderventures.com answering the following 3 questions. Submissions must include your contact information, URL & Company contact details (if applicable) and should not exceed 1 page per answer.
All entries should be received by this Saturday November 8th.
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Peter Diamandis who among his many pursuits was the founder of the X-Prize Foundation just took the stage at TED 2008 and spoke about how he helped organize a weightless experience flight on his Zero Gravity adventures for Stephen Hawking.
It was an incredible short story about how Stephen loved the experience and although they were originally only going to do one parabolic flight to ensure his safety then ended up doing more then seven parabolic flights.
I had missed the news of this, but CBS wrote about his experience & sponsors last year.
Here are some pictures I took of Stephen enjoying weightlessness from Peter’s presentation. Very cool.
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Originally more famous for tripping on Scoble’s tear jerker switch and much anticipated leading up to TED.
Roy Gould yesterday demonstrated the Worldwide Telescope. It should now be much more famous for the actual project and the TED video which is now available for everyone to see.
Posted by austin under Conference, Social Web
A lot of conversations in the blog-us-phere are occurring about the TED conference. Sometimes with appreciation & envy, often times with curiosity about what occurs behind the great videos people have seen online, and at times with a little disdain at the idea of an elitist self-congratulatory meet-up for rich people & celebrities (not a view I hold - but it comes up).
Often people miss the concept of what is so special about TED. TED is an incredible concentration of ideas & conversations. Think about the best blog posts you’ll see in a year all appearing in an intense three day blog storm. Chris Anderson (TED’s curator) just referred to it as the ultimate meme fest. By bringing together a diverse set of intelligent, talented & interesting people who are all doing ground breaking things in their lives there is a spark of conversation and sharing of ideas that spreads well beyond the halls of Monterey’s conference center, Aspen or Africa where TED has expanded its reach.
Beyond the speakers, so many attendees have incredible life stories and have accomplished great things in their own lives. They all contribute much more to making TED an incredible experience then some of the famous celebrity names that you might hear about. It’s fun to meet some celebrities, but the true celebrities aren’t the people on the movie screen, but rather the people who are re-inventing our basic assumptions of how our culture, science and planet operate and will evolve.
By putting the TED talks online - this conversation isn’t limited to the attendees but has been shared with the world. I don’t know of another conference I attend that is so generous and free with their content. This year TED is putting up some sessions the same day they have occurred, and tonight is broadcasting the TED prize live which I would encourage everyone to watch. Click here for the live feed, Thursday, February 28, starting at 5:15pm US/Pacific time.
At TED 2006 Storyteller, writer and slam poet Rives (who has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam) did a great round up of the conversation of TED that really captured the TED theme, of Ideas Worth Spreading. It’s about us setting these conversations free and spreading them. So according to Rives it’s all about setting off Molotov Mockingbird Cocktails
Posted by austin under Conference, Tools
TED is my favorite conference of the year. It’s influenced a lot of what we are doing at our new project Akoha and is the highlight of my conference season.
I’ve arrived at TED and have been tracking who is on Twitter while at TED.
For my friends who are following my TED twitter feed, I thought I’d provide this list of other TEDsters who are Twittering. I don’t know how often I’ll be updating my blog while here, since there is so much great stuff to listen too & old friends to connect with.
But if you’d like to follow the TED discussions on Twitter check out the following list.
You can also track the Twitter conversation on Terraminds by following this link for those who are using the #ted hash tag protocol, or the general conversation about TED by using this link.
If you know of anyone else who is Twittering TED (in attendance @ Aspen or Monterey) just leave me a comment here, or direct message me on Twitter and I’ll be updating this list.
(List is in no particular order. Just friends who I know are here or in Aspen and then others I’ve found through Twitter search on Terraminds)
Once again if you know of anyone else Twittering from TED let me know and I’ll be updating the list a couple of times a day.
You can also track the great blog posts from TED.com where the TED staff are blogging the conference.
Update: Chris Sacca (ex-Google, Twitter & Angel investor) is twittering TED conference.
Frank Jurden is also Twittering
PeterMe is also Twittering
Susan Bratton (who was great to meet in person) was also Twittering TED.
Enjoy your TED
Posted by austin under Akoha, Canada Tech Scene, Community, Conference
I spent last week in Toronto where I had the incredible pleasure of doing a keynote discussion at the Mesh Conference with Tom Williams of GiveMeaning and our great friend and Mesh organizer Rob Hyndman.
Our panel was on social change and charity online, and I was a little nervous when I accepted the invitation because Akoha, my main project and current startup, is still under development and has yet to launch anything.
I had plenty of ideas to talk about. I’ve spent the last three years studying and thinking about ideas on how the Internet can be leveraged for social change, and how the emerging gift economy of social media creates new structures for collective action.
Tom was incredible telling his story of how he came to be working on social change & philanthropy and the great work he is doing at GiveMeaning. Someone later that evening would tell me they felt awful for me after Tom spoke first because they felt that no one could follow such a great opening. (He did go on to say that we complimented each other incredibly well and loved our panel)
I also spoke publicly for the first time about how the loss of my brother Morgan after his battle with cancer and my attendance at the TED conference a week after his funeral was a turning point in my life.
Tom’s write up of the panel say’s it all when he mentions we were both grounded and authentic and I think the fact that neither of us were selling anything, just sharing our experiences that shaped our careers and how we are choosing to be entrepreneurs is what resonated with people.
The panel was an incredible discussion that Tom and I continued throughout the next two days with the attendees and other speakers. Tom and I are kindred souls and I think out shared passion for these issues came through on the panel.
There were a number of people who wrote about our panel, including some liveblogging that gives you some feel for how the discussion went. Here is a round up of some of the posts about the panel from Google Blog Search & Technorati. Here are some photo’s I showed up in from the conference. (Yes I am going bald - blame genetics & 15 years of startups :)
I have tons of other Mesh stories that are deserving blog posts, including some thoughts on the incredible number of young entrepreneurs I had a chance to meet. There was an incredible energy in the hallways where I found myself hanging with old friends and new.
The conference was different from many I attend in that there was a large diversity in the types of attendees with entrepreneurs, social media experts, investors and venture capitalists, technologists, programmers and corporate representatives from large and small companies. This created some unique conversations, as people were sharing lessons and ideas in a very co-operative discussion that wasn’t just focused on who acquired who that day.
I want to thank my friends and Mesh organizers, Mathew Ingram, Mark Evans, Stuart McDonald, Mike McDerment and Rob Hyndman.
They did an incredible job hosting a great conference. Thank you all for inviting me to be a part of this fun event.
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