How Reddit began
Social news website Reddit received 47 million visitors last month. In our latest video, founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian discuss how Reddit became the “front page of the Internet.”
Inside the Cycleplex: The Weird, Wild World of Google Bikes
Corporate bike fleets have become commonplace on sprawling Silicon Valley campuses over the past decade. Apple has campus bikes, as do Facebook, LinkedIn and others. But there’s nothing quite like Google’s.
Take an unprecedented journey inside BitTorrent
In this video, we take a look at the unprecedented journey inside BitTorrent, the Internet’s fastest peer-to-peer file-sharing network and into the mind of its genius Founder and Chief Scientist Bram Cohen.
Bram, along with CEO Eric Klinker and VP of Marketing Matt Mason, talk about why no platform has surpassed BitTorrent in all these years and take the issue of piracy head on to reveal the truth about the company’s role in it.
Visualizing the world’s Twitter data
Good morning, Twitter! Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and from these tweets, we can gather a lot of information about people’s lives: where they travel, when they wake up, and their opinions on pretty much everything. In this video, former New York Times data artist-in-residence Jer Thorp imagines what uses we can devise from this wealth of information.
How LiveOps became the leader in cloud customer service
Pivot expert Marty Beard turns LiveOps telephone-based customer service platform into a cloud-based one that embraces social media. In A Total Disruption’s latest Pivot, Marty shares the results and dishes great advice on staying nimble and always looking for new ways to change and improve.
How Important Is Twitter to the Music Industry?
Tatiana Simonian, head of music at Twitter, talks with Bloomberg’s Cory Johnson about Twitter’s connection to the music industry. Twitter currently has a user base of a few hundred million, most of whom follow atleast one musician. Social networks for the music industry have enjoyed mix success. However, each artist is his or her own brand and Twitter can be that platform to increase and leverage that brand identity.
Social media in 2013
What will be the social media trends of the year ahead? Jeff Jarvis, author of “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live”, and musician and social media artist Amanda Palmer explore the impact of social on business, government, and individuals with The Economist’s Robert Lane Greene at The Economist’s World in 2013 Festival on December 8th 2012.
GreenITers - The Fastest Growing Clean Tech Community
Advances in green technology are critical to combating climate change, and for making a more eco-friendly society. As with all technology it is people with the passion to progress it that make the biggest contribution, and in the case of greener technological solutions there are many individuals both expert and amateur alike who want a community to discuss ideas and improve green technology.
http://www.GreenITers.com provides such online community, where everyone from top academics to the average person with an interest in preserving the planet through eco-friendly technology, can get together online and share ideas, new gadgets, scientific news and break-through.
Twitter’s pivot from failure to success
Twitter wasn’t always a social network with 500 million users. Find out from the one of the founding team members, Dom Sagolla, how this monster of communication was born.
The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence
If you think you’re in complete control of your destiny or even your own actions, you’re wrong. Every choice you make, every behavior you exhibit, and even every desire you have finds its roots in the social universe. Nicholas Christakis explains why individual actions are inextricably linked to sociological pressures; whether you’re absorbing altruism performed by someone you’ll never meet or deciding to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, collective phenomena affect every aspect of your life. By the end of the lecture Christakis has revealed a startling new way to understand the world that ranks sociology as one of the most vitally important social sciences.
