Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online?

Posted by jacobscott on Sunday October 26, 2008 @03:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I know that the TED talks are up free, I'm familiar with MIT's OpenCourseWare, the free educational material up on iTunes, and that Google puts some tech talks online. Unfortunately, it looks like you have to be a member to see Long Now Foundation video. But I figure I must be missing something. Any suggestions?

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by sidsavara on Sunday October 26, 2008 @03:47AM (#344125)

Love TED. Another great one was the New Yorker conference: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/conference/conference20...

Also, if you want you can see all the ones I've bookmarked on my delicious account:

http://delicious.com/sidsavara/video

Some may be off topic, but in general I think it's as good a place to find videos as anything else. I tend to bookmark 1-3 a week, if it is tagged +someday or +todo then all bets are off on quality, as it means I saw it referenced somewhere or tweeted and bookmarked it for future reference.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by kalvin on Sunday October 26, 2008 @04:33AM (#344141)

Stanford has a weekly speaker seminar class called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that has a free podcast. (You can't see the video unless you log in as a student, but hopefully that will change in the near future.)

Not all of them are great, but there's enough that you're bound to find a topic/speaker that you're interested in:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

(Past speakers you might be interested in: Marissa Mayer, Reid Hoffman, Mitchell Baker, Mitch Kapor, Ron Conway, Sue Decker, Larry Brilliant, Vinod Khosla, William McDonough, Mark Zuckerberg, et. al)

(Also, I highly recommend David Rothkopf's talk if you're interested in policy/current affairs/the world.)

edit: I guess I should add that I help out with the class, but I'd have posted this either way :)

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by ciscoriordan on Monday October 27, 2008 @09:05AM (#345091)

Also http://see.stanford.edu which is open to everyone, if you're looking for actual class lectures.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by jacobscott on Sunday October 26, 2008 @04:35AM (#344143)

I work near stanford, maybe I will check out the series in person. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by michael_dorfman on Sunday October 26, 2008 @04:47AM (#344148)

The SICP videos are awesome.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by ntoshev on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:55AM (#344203)

http://videolectures.net/

Supposedly on every topic, but the machine learning selection is especially good.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by tlrobinson on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:05AM (#344179)

It seems like there's a Google Tech Talk for just about everything.

YUI Theater also has some good web stuff, not just YUI related: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by lacker on Sunday October 26, 2008 @03:53AM (#344129)

Here's some specific suggestions. I was most recently fascinated by this video on head tracking "virtual reality".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Another cool thing if you're into DIY robots (not really educational, but I found it inspiring) is the Yellow Drum Machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU

Not sure why I got on the robot tangent but here's another good one, a 4-legged robot that's pretty good at navigating hills and obstacles. Especially the recovery from a fall sequence around 1:25.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

And here is hacking the Wii Fit controller and a Roomba to do a sort of vacuum-by-surfing... thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbprdjTX0w&feature=relat...

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by chrisbroadfoot on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:17AM (#344184)

There are some nice ones on InfoQ. I just watched this one today:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gosling-jvm-lang-summit-k...

Gosling talking about how the JVM came about. Great stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by narag on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:21AM (#344187)

I would very much appreciate talks with written transcription. They're very valuable for us struggling with spoken English.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by vrs on Sunday October 26, 2008 @02:22PM (#344446)

I was looking at the Stanford videos (specifically the David Rothkopf) mentioned above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344141 ). I just noticed that the online video has a subtitle option

Edit: and have transcripts too.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by riklomas on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:30AM (#344192)

The last Future of Web Apps conference in London now has most of the talks available online:

http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by alex_c on Sunday October 26, 2008 @12:17PM (#344364)

Also see:

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=181164

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by Alex3917 on Sunday October 26, 2008 @09:26AM (#344256)

It's becoming pretty standard practice now for authors to put their book talks online. There are a few websites that host them, including CSPAN's book talk. When authors come to talk at Google their talks usually get posted on Google video as well. There are lists of the best free documentaries floating around too.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by ricree on Monday October 27, 2008 @07:59AM (#345044)

I may be a bit biased here, but University of Illinois's ACM chapter puts on a fairly good conference every year, and posts the videos online.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by sjs382 on Sunday October 26, 2008 @03:41PM (#344508)

Not exclusively tech-related, but this is one of my favorites: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigi...

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by Glimjaur on Sunday October 26, 2008 @05:25AM (#344162)

I enjoy listening to the audio podcasts from SXSW and FOWA, they are both available in the iTunes store.

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by djm on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:47AM (#344200)

Have a look at http://videolectures.net/

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by rami on Sunday October 26, 2008 @01:26PM (#344412)

http://sciencehack.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by adldesigner on Sunday October 26, 2008 @07:11PM (#344647)

Very nice links, guys! Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online? by tocomment on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:10PM (#344600)

What are the best ones on TED?

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