- -: A Scale that Tweets Your Weight? Meet the Quantified Self
August 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/17/Anand_Giridharadas_Global_Media_Ideas A scale that automatically tweets your weight? How about a website that analyzes the specifics of your love life? Journalist Anand Giridharadas reflects on burgeoning technologies that facilitate the quantificatio...
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- -: Meetup Co-Founder on the Power of Community
October 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/biztechday_ny_2010 Scott Heiferman, co-founder and CEO of Meetup, explores how companies can benefit from helping their customers build communities. ----- "If you're trying to build a tribe, a community or a movement, and you want it to be s...
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- -: Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson
October 29, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/11/Steven_Johnson_Where_Good_Ideas_Come_From Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From (http://f4a.tv/eyWlqm), discusses a Stanford study that found unusually innovative professionals to have relatively diverse networks of acquaintances. He r...
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- -: Can Video Games Make the World a Better Place?
November 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Tiffany_Shlain_and_Jane_McGonigal Game designer Jane McGonigal and filmmaker Tiffany Schlain discuss how video games make people better, and can help change the world. McGonigal describes the "epic win," a special skill gamers d...
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- -: What Is 'Truth' In the Digital Age?
December 2, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/05/Anand_Giridharadas_Developing_a_Digital_Philosophy New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas ponders how the concept of truth is changing in the era of Wikipedia, Facebook and other social mediums. In the digital age, says Giridharadas, "truth is wh...
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- -: US Security: No Match for WikiLeaks and Lady Gaga
January 31, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/18/William_Davidow_Dire_Consequences_of_Overconnectedness As an example of how regulatory systems fail to keep pace with technological change, William Davidow points to Pvt. Bradley Manning. Manning allegedly managed to steal thousands of classified docu...
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- -: American Gamester: Jay-Z's 'Decoded' Gets Gamified
February 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/gamification_summit_2011 Demetri Detsaridis, the executive producer at Area/Code, demonstrates how Jay-Z's memoir Decoded launched using a unique social game that attracted public interest and incentive. Engaging the curiosity of customers, pr...
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- -: Did the Media Overstate Twitter's Impact in Egypt?
February 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/07/Evgeny_Morozov_The_Net_Delusion Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt and author Evgeny Morozov discuss the media's obsession with the role Twitter and other social networking tools played during the protests in Iran, Tunisia and Egypt. Morozov argues tha...
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- -: Facebook News Feed: The New Face of Journalism?
March 15, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/04/The_Fourth_Estate_in_a_Digital_Democracy David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, asserts that the Facebook News Feed is a new form of journalism. Quoting founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Kirkpatrick says, "A squirrel dying in front of your h...
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- -: The Future of Social Gaming Looks a Lot Like the Past
March 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/gamification_summit_2011 Gabe Zichermann, chair of the Gamification Summit, says that today's most successful social games are those built on the social principles of classic games like bridge and mahjong. ----- In our new, gamified world, w...
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