Need to check out TED.com

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. It started out as a yearly conference back in 1984. It is a place for thinkers to get together, some of which are selected to give up to a 18 minute speech. You had to actually attend the conference before, but now you can watch the shows on ted.com

 Here are some speechs that I have watched that I think are worth watching:

Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight (video)

Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child (video)

Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let’s build a health care system in Rwanda (video)

Ben Saunders: Three things to know before you ski to the North Pole (video)

 

iRazoo.com

Four guys have created a new meta-search site call iRazoo.  It provides a meta search using Yahoo and MSN.  The value add is that it allows for sites to be ranked based upon user feedback.  And it rewards feedback by allowing them to earn prizes. 

Here is a review of it in the Chronicle.

chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4856200.html