bing.com/maps/explore: New standards in zooming and paning: At deep zoom, one sees the 3D structure of facades. Fly unto the ground to see the streets - yes it's more beautiful than google! Mapping hyper-local stories to a map in real time. Using flickr foto local tags and integrating them into the map, including their time tags - augmented reality. Going indoors!!! Same 3D capabilities in public indoor spaces. Life broadcasting inside the map via mobile phone. Back outside, looking up, integrated worldwide telescopes in the map overlay star constellations. Zoom out to the sky. TED …

Is music made for it’s surroundings, the venue it is being presented at? Yes. Byrne played in/for CBGB. African drums sound best in the African country side. Chorals are for cathedrals. Jazz Bands play on steam boats with lots of background noise. Mahler’s music applies to Carnegie Hall. It all was changed by the radio that allowed to transmit music anywhere. Musicians started whispering directly into one’s ear. Venues now became discotheques and places with Juke Boxes. People started making music for that, for dancers.Arena Rock was written for sport stadium concerts. There's music specifically written for car …

Jane is a game designer who has been making games online for ten years. The plan is to make it as easy to save the real world as it is in a game. She knows that we spend 3 billion hours per week playing online games. That is not enough, we need to increase that to 21 billion hours per week to solve problems like hunger, obesity, global warming. How and why? 5.93 million years have been spent playing World Of Warcraft. Young people spend as much time gaming as they spend in school (perfect attendance from k to …

Standing ovations for the legion of extraordinary dancers and their performance with the string orchestra. They have superpower talents

Smart people having incredible conversations about how they will change the world. And everyone knows that they really will, already are.

This is a TED discussion: Audience, are you fro or against the use of nuclear energy? Roughly 75% initially are pro nuclear energy (I am one of them). a twelve minute discussion may change the audience's opinion. Pro: Environmentalist Stewart Brand: Nuclear energy is clean and safe, and can satisfy the large demand of energy. The waste is much less than coal. And it leaves a much smaller footprint on the land than wind and solar parks. New technology in "micropower" make nuclear reactors even smaller. And you can even recylce nuclear warheads this way, by turning them into …

Modern slavery? yes. It exists, in the real sense: People that are forced to work without pay, are threatened and beaten, and can not walk away. Today, 27 million people are enslaved. it is an economical measure. Only Island and Greenland have no slaves at all. How did this happen? 1. Population explosion 2. Extreme poverty and vulnerability 3. Corruption, especially police corruption How do you get slaves? You ask people in need: "Want a job?" And once they are on the truck, the hammer comes down. The price of human labor collapsed as the world population rises. …

John Landau, producer of avatar, explains how Mo Film created a video for JED foundation for next to nothing (he shows it and it's funny!) The message of Mo Film: New social media techniques can power social causes.

4chan is anonymous and has no memory = a completely raw discussion with internet memes like LOLcats, RickRoll, etc. It is an outlet for people to say and post whatever they want. The rules of the 4chan: 1. You don't talk about /b/ 2. You DO NOT talk about /b/ 3. If it exists, there's porn of it. No exceptions. "Anonymous"? If activity spurts real protests and internet cat abusers are identified by the community based on photo hints to get arrested 48 hours after they are identified, nothing is completely anonymous.