TED Talks List

Ted Talks are a collection of talks by some of the worlds leading thinkers and doers on Technology, Entertainment and Design (hence the name TED). Many of the talks are inspiring and try to convey ideas on all sorts of subjects in those three categories. Many of the talks are available on the Ted website in various formats. They can even be downloaded to the local computer system.

Someone made an effort to put all of the published Ted Talks in a list with direct onsite links to the videos, the name of the talker, the title, a description, the date, running time and event it was held. This is an incredible useful spreadsheet for anyone interested in at least one of the focus areas of TED.

Below are three embedded Ted Talk videos. The first is by Evan Williams, a founder of Twitter who is talking about how Twitter’s growth was driven by unexpected uses, the second showing Dan Ariely talking about why people are thinking that stealing and cheating is ok (sometimes) and the last by Tim Berners-Lee who is talking about the next web of open, linked data.

The list of TED talks contains 500 entries so far and it seems to be updated regularly with new content. This one is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Tuesday March 31, 2009 -
Tags:Dan Ariely, Evan Williams, ted, ted talks, ted talks videos, Tim Berners-Lee, twitter

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1. rruben says:

   March 31, 2009 at 11:16 pm

   I like ted a lot. A lot of great talks are published there.

   Some I like too:
   http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

   http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

   http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

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2. leoeris says:

   March 31, 2009 at 11:54 pm

   stealing and cheating are not ok??

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3. Tobey says:

   April 2, 2009 at 4:08 pm

   Nice share Martin. I am actually subscribed to TED and watch new videos on a regular basis as long as they interest me enough. Though, the truth is Miro doesn’t keep history of downloaded videos very efficiently which sometimes makes me wonder if I’ve watched certain episode or not yet…

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4. rme says:

   February 15, 2010 at 10:00 pm

   Hi there, I noticed the list of ted talks you linked to hasn’t been updated since 10/09. Is there a more current version you know of?

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