Ask HN: TED like sites/videos?

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by vijayr • 15 years ago

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Are there any other sites like ted.com? Not looking for talks on any specific field, just a general collection of talks like TED on various topics, and hopefully not too technical.

tron_carter• 15 years ago

Ignite puts on events in various locations. 5 min talks on interesting topics, slides advance automatically every 15 seconds. http://igniteshow.com/

mikecane• 15 years ago

Big Think: http://bigthink.com/

sharadgopal• 15 years ago

Do Lectures [1]. Some of their content has been featured on the TED website in the past.

[1] http://www.dolectures.com/

pitdesi• 15 years ago

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in the UK does some very cool animations explaining stuff, somewhat similar to TED

http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/

TamDenholm• 15 years ago

Fora has some pretty sweet videos.

http://fora.tv/

tarunkotia• 15 years ago

Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/

olalonde• 15 years ago

http://videolectures.net/

mesuvash2• 15 years ago

videolectures.net videos are generally about technical topic. Mostly related to Machine learning these days.

iqster• 15 years ago

http://igniteshow.com/

michael_nielsen• 15 years ago

http://longnow.org/seminars/

On average, better than TED, in my opinion, although quality is of course variable.

simonw• 15 years ago

We collect videos of talks on Lanyrd, through crowdsourcing.

You can search through our full video collection here (1764 collected so far): http://lanyrd.com/video/

You can also browse by topic - for example, here are our videos about JavaScript:

http://lanyrd.com/topics/javascript/video/

And here's our collection of Ignite videos:

http://lanyrd.com/topics/ignite/video/

You can even view videos by particular speakers - for example, here's our page for John Resig:

http://lanyrd.com/people/jeresig/video/

Let us know what you think. We're plan to revamp our video listing pages pretty soon.

rudasn• 15 years ago

> We're plan to revamp our video listing pages pretty soon.

You should. It looks very "spammy" right now and quite confusing. Other than that, good job.

_ouxp• 15 years ago

GEL Conference: http://www.gelconference.com/videos/

Talks by Sal Khan, the Gregory Brothers (they show off their a cappella chops) and others.

dlauer• 15 years ago

The Sputnik Observatory is filled with videos similar to TED, in a very innovative interface:

http://www.sptnk.org

The videos are shorter, but the site tries to link you to similarly interesting conversations, and hopefully expose you to something you weren't aware of. It's also growing rapidly, and will have a lot more video up in the next couple of months!

ravstr• 15 years ago

there's a similar thread on Quora @ http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-collections-of-thoug...

namank• 15 years ago

I think this is appropriate here: http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/03/100_websites_yo/

Lost_BiomedE• 15 years ago

Google talks are being moved to this dedicated channel: https://www.youtube.com/atgoogletalks

Currently 1000+ videos

missn• 15 years ago

Ted-like Conference in Toronto: http://www.youtube.com/user/ideaCityOnline

AndrewWarner• 15 years ago

I do deep, thoughtful interviews with entrepreneurs.

But mine are about 1 hour each.

http://mixergy.com

guynamedloren• 15 years ago

Andrew, you have the most interesting and in-depth interviews I've seen. I love that I can always expect enthusiasm coupled with exciting topics when I tune in to Mixergy. Keep up the good work, my friend!

zaru2• 15 years ago

Big fan Andrew, keep up the good work

ahmicro• 15 years ago

ontwik has some great talks

http://ontwik.com/category/startup/

http://ontwik.com/category/creativity/

I really love this talk by Obie Fernandez

http://ontwik.com/rails/obie-fernandez-mastering-the-art-of-...

vijayr• 15 years ago

wow, thanks for the links. These are the ones mentioned in the comments

http://mixergy.com

http://lanyrd.com/video/

http://www.youtube.com/user/ideaCityOnline

https://www.youtube.com/atgoogletalks

http://longnow.org/seminars/

http://www.gelconference.com/videos/

http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/

http://fora.tv/

http://www.sptnk.org

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-collections-of-thoug...

http://videolectures.net/

http://bigthink.com/

http://igniteshow.com/

http://www.dolectures.com/

http://academicearth.org/

thekevan• 15 years ago

Similar to Mixergy and the interviews done by The Startup Foundry.

http://www.beyondthepedway.com/

abdels• 15 years ago

Hey,

If ur into audio, try http://said.fm/. The content is like a cross between TED and Fora.TV. Brilliant for on the go listening.

dstein• 15 years ago

http://www.sixtysymbols.com has a great collection of physics and chemistry clips given by university professors. They're all 5-10 minute tidbits of trivia and general knowledge stuff.

arturo111• 15 years ago

The closest analogy to TED talks is: http://www.edge.org Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge

mesuvash2• 15 years ago

If you are looking for inspirational videos or Interesting videos you can have a look at http://www.lolzwow.com

zaru2• 15 years ago

Don't forget the Khan Academy, Bill Gates recognized it as one of his favorite sites on the internet http://www.khanacademy.org/

rchiba• 15 years ago

http://www.dailybrink.com

mermeladas• 15 years ago

It's strange that PopTech wasn't mentioned http://poptech.org/

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