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Making Online Video Viral at #SXSW

March 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Key tips from today’s SXSW panel on making online video viral. 1. Surprise and add elements of the unexpected, i.e., granny beating up a robber, Cookie Monster eating or saying something unusual, different colors, sounds, tempos. 2. Remember that it’s…

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Daniel Siegel on Consciousness: Part III

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Rigidity versus fluidity versus integration of the mind and what constitutes a healthy mind. What moves us towards consciousness? What can we do? Daniel Siegel continues to talk about what he learned from writing his book Mindsight, which just came…

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Daniel Siegel on Consciousness: Part II

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

How do you define the mind? What is a healthy mind? A healthy mind comes from something he refers to as integration. Hear Daniel Siegel’s perspective.

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Daniel Siegel on Consciousness: Relational Nature of our Minds, our Brains: Part I

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Dr. Daniel Siegel meets with a small group of us for lunch in Santa Monica last week to discuss the relational nature of our minds and our brains…..body/relational and how all of it connects to consciousness. His new book Mindsight…

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Early Glimpse of Countdown to Zero: #countdowntozero #nuclear

February 20th, 2010 · No Comments

At Long Beach last week, film producer Lawrence Bender gave an early preview of his latest movie Countdown to Zero about nuclear weapons threat. Following the eye-opening film, he takes questions from the audience. While the footage is extremely dark,…

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David Cameron on Behavioral Economics: #TED2010

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

This past week at TED, David Cameron, Britain’s Conservative Party leader talks about a new era in politics, where governments have less power and money and people empowered by technology have more of both.

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Tags: United Kingdom · Videos

Winefinder Makes Buying Wine Fun

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Cortexica’s Steve Semenzato demos Winefinder at VatorSplash in San Francisco this past week. The magic behind Winefinder is an image recognition technology that informs a buyer of the kind of wine they are buying simply from a photograph of the…

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Tags: United Kingdom · Videos

Learning about Amsterdam-Based PICNIC Festival

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

PICNIC Program Director Kitty Leering talks to me about their upcoming PICNIC event, held in Amsterdam, Holland every September. Think of PICNIC as more of a festival or a cross-discipline platform for creative discussion and collaboration than a conference. Bringing together art, technology, innovation and culture, its unique festival format covers strategy as well as [...]

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Tags: Holland · Videos

Zwirbeldirn Gives us a Taste of Bavarian Jingle

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Zwirbeldirn plays and sings Bavarian music at this past week’s DLD Conference in Munich.

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Tags: Germany · Videos

Erotic Chocolate in Germany? You Betcha

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Click below to energize your senses with the aromas of homemade German chocolate. Tucked away on a side street not far from Munich’s food market where you are mainly faced with sausage, sausage and more sausage, a little gem called Sama Sama sits.
The building itself on Westenriederstr is crooked and crammed inside, every corner filled [...]

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Tags: Germany · Videos