There’s some things you just didn’t realized about Google. I heard many misinterpretations of what Google is doing including one that YouTube was acquired for motion image context search purposes. (Maybe it really is for the long term future, who knows.) This is pretty informative and concise, and I generally quite agree with the whole presentation:
[via Techcrunch]
You can go Full Screen to see the words better.
Same data for the Olympics, different way of presentation:
Singapore rather covers Thaksin in the front page. That’s because we haven’t won any medals yet. Channel NewsAsia Beijing Olympic site talks about the Olympic spirit, the dance and some Olympic history.
I been to a couple of tech talks before. I shan’t named them but they haven’t exactly been very entertaining. The food, the food, the food is - erm - more interesting than some of the speakers.
Here we have Hans Rosling at two TED talks, both are entertaining. As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now the global health professor is looking at the bigger picture, increasing our understanding of social and economic development with the remarkable trend-revealing software he created. (Stole it from here)
I embedded both his videos here. His data visualizations are really good. It’s an animated and playful presentation too.
The software demonstrated was later purchased by Google in March 2007. Rosling met the Google founders at TED. (more…)