Posts Tagged ‘video talks’

Facebook privacy issues dominate much of This Week in Google #40. Talking heads this week are Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Gina Trapani, and Paul Thurott.

Is Social Media a Fad? Or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the Social Media Revolution by Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics. Read a rough transcript of stats in the video.

In This Week in Google #35, Leo Laporte says the Constitution’s second amendment should be amended to protect the right to bear data, not arms, to defend us against tyranny. TWIG 35 opens with a wide-ranging discussion of Intranet freedom and censorship following Google’s decision to pull out of China.

Thinking about starting a business? David S. Rose’s rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself — and prove to a VC — before you fire up your slideshow.

Before you start dreaming about buying a new boat with all the cash you’ll earn while working at home for Mechanical Turk, listen to this talk by Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The messenger is brilliant, even as the message is scary and depressing: “a new range of projects is [...]